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Continue to develop, maintain, and refine programs and procedures that maximize rite <br />opportunity for meaningful, ongoing citizen involvement in the community's planning and <br />planning implementation processes consistent with mandatory statewide planning standards. <br /> <br />Objectives <br /> <br />1. Promote and strengthen communication and coordination among various citizens <br /> organizations; business, industrial, and other groups in the community; and between these <br /> groups and government. <br /> <br />2. Insure adequate opportunities and provide adequate support for citizen involvement in <br /> metropolitan planning and related issues. <br /> <br />3. Insure that the roles and responsibilities of the various citizen advisory committees <br /> remain effective and responsive vehicles for citizen involvement. <br /> <br />4. Maintain a permanent citizens advisory committee to monitor the adequacy of citizen <br /> involvement in metropolitan-wide planning processes. <br /> <br />Policies <br /> <br />K. 1 Maintain an ongoing citizen advisory committee to the goveming bodies of Springfield, <br /> Eugene, and Lane County to monitor the adequacy of citizen involvement in the update, <br /> review, and amendments to the Metro Plan. <br /> <br />K.2 Maintain and adequately fund a variety of programs and procedures for encouraging and <br /> providing oppommities for citizen involvement in metropolitan area planning issues. <br /> Such programs should provide for widespread citizen involvement, effective <br /> communication, access to technical information, and feedback mechanisms from <br /> policymakers. These programs shall be coordinated with local citizen involvement <br /> programs and shall be prepared on the metropolitan level by the JPCC, a committee <br /> composed of two representatives from each of the three metropolitan planning <br /> commissions. <br /> <br />K.3 Improve and maintain local mechanisms that provide the opportunity for residents and <br /> property owners in existing residential areas to participate in the implementation of <br /> policies in the Metro Plan that may affect the character of those areas. <br /> <br />K.4 Maintain an ongoing metropolitan region policy committee, known as the MPC, to <br /> provide policy direction on major Metro Plan updates, Metro Plan amendments, and <br /> special studies. MPC shall resolve land use issues and other disagreements at the elected <br /> official level among the two cities and the county and fulfill other intergovernmental <br /> functions as required by the three metropolitan governments. <br /> <br /> III-K-3 <br /> <br /> <br />