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In responding to the court's remand of the ordinance, the council has at least the following options available to it: 1. Repeal all provisions contained in the ordinance. This option would make PeaceHealth's expansion at the Hilyard campus more difficult, time-consuming and uncertain (at least in the short-term before the council could adopt another framework or set of code amendments related to hospitals). In addition, it also would delay Triad's ability to construct a hospital on the EWEB site and make such a project more difficult and less certain. 2. Re-adopt the provisions of the ordinance related to commercially-zoned properties, and repeal the other provisions of the ordinance related to properties zoned industrial, residential and public land. This option would leave in place the ordinance's provisions which would facilitate PeaceHealth's expansion and renovation at the Hilyard campus. If this option were coupled with a change to the designation and zoning for the EWEB site (Option 3), it would also facilitate Triad's use of the EWEB site for a hospital. 3. In conjunction with Option 2, initiate (a) a change in the designation of the EWEB site from heavy industrial to commercial, and (b) a concurrent rezoning of the site from public lands to a commercial zone. The EWEB site is currently designated in the Metro Plan as heavy industrial, a designation which makes little sense today. 4. Initiate changes to the Metro Plan to explicitly allow hospitals in the residential and industrial designations and then re-adopt the ordinance as is. Such a change would require approval of all three jurisdictions. 5. Amend the ordinance's provisions for industrial and residential lands so that a hospital in those areas would have to show that it is consistent with the Metro Plan. This could be accomplished by allowing a hospital in those areas subject to a Conditional Use Permit, instead of as an outright permitted use. Such changes to the ordinance would comply with the court's ruling, but it is unlikely that the changes, by themselves, would enable Triad to construct a hospital on the EWEB site. 6. Amend the Metro Plan text to include a new category of uses that would cover Special Facilities that could generally address the unique development needs of certain public, semi-public and private uses typically found within urban areas but not necessarily in great number or easily included within the more common land use designations. CITY MANAGER'S RECOMMENDATION The City Manager recommends that the council pursue options 2 and 3. 1. Re-adopt the provisions related to commercially-zoned property, and repeal the other provisions related to lands zoned industrial, residential and public land. The provisions of the ordinance related to commercially-zoned property were not challenged by CHOICES and were not called into question by the court's ruling. Re-adoption of those provisions will facilitate PeaceHealth's expansion of its Hilyard campus as hospital uses will then be permitted outright, and it will be able to proceed with L:\CMO\2005 Council Agendas\M050209\S050209A. doc