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Although not required by the Transportation Planning Rule when the TransPlan update was initiated in 1992, the revised TransPlan is designed as an integrated transportation and land use plan. As a result, the evaluation and selection of transportation system plan alternatives included land use measures as well as transportation demand management strategies and transportation system improvements. Based on direction from the elected officials in 1997, the TransPlan update is based on the "Equal Emphasis" alternative, us- ing all three of these fundamental components of transportation planning in a balanced and integrated manner to address the identified transportation needs of the planning area. The goals and policies in the revised TransPlan are also proposed for adoption as the Metro Plan transportation goals and policies. The finance component of the revisions to TransPlan includes 20-year financially constrained Capital Investment Actions project lists. Those lists include projects from the 1986 TransPlan and, where supported by the needs analysis of the Transportation Planning Rule (OAR 660, division 12), some proj- ects from the 1986 TransPlan remain in the revised TransPlan and the project lists adopted and incorporated by policy into the Metro Plan. A revised Metro Plan Trans- portation element and related amendments to the Metro Plan text will be adopted concur- rent with the adoption of the revisions to TransPlan. Since the review of TransPlan and Metro Plan periodic review are being conducted si- multaneously, work on those plans 'has been closely coordinated. Population and em- ployment projections developed by the Lane Council of Governments for the 20-year planning period were used for both TransPlan and Metro Plan periodic review. Policy direction in both the revised TransPlan and the Residential Land Use and Housing Study, a periodic review work task, support nodal development as a key land use strategy to achieve higher-density, transportation-efficient development patterns. The findings contained in this document demoristrate compliance with the applicable cri- teria for adoption of amendments to the Metro Plan and amendments to TransPlan as a refinement plan to the Metro Plan. On June 28, 2001, the Lane Council of Governments Board of Directors, the body dele- gated federal authority for transportation planning in the Eugene-Springfield metropolitan area, adopted TransPlan in compliance with federal transportation requirements. The LCOG Board Executive Committee adopted the plan air quality conformity determina- tion, a federal requirement, on August 2,2001. Following adoption of the TransPlan up- . date by the Eugene and Springfield City Councils, Lane County Board of Commissioners and Lane Transit District Board, the Lcob Board will act on amendments necessary to make its June 28th adopted version consistent with the locally adopted version. The following criteria from Eugene Code (EC) Section 9.128(3), Springfield Develop- ment Code (SDC) 7.070(3), and Lane Code (LC) 12.225(2) shall be applied by the elected officials in approving or denying the amendments to the Metro Plan: Exhibit C Findings in Support of the Adoption of TransPlan 2