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Goal 12 - Transportation: To provide and encourage a safe, convenient and economic transportation system. Goal 12 is implemented through the Transportation Planning Rule (TPR, OAR 660-12). TransPlan provides the regional policy framework through which the TPR is enacted at the local level. The code amendments will not significantly affect any transportation facility. The level of development currently permitted through existing code and zoning regulations will remain the same. No change in the functional classification of streets will result from these amendments. In addition, no changes are proposed to the standards that implement the functional classification system. The /ND Nodal Development Metro Plan Diagram overlay designation has been applied to the entire Downtown Plan area. This designation identifies the Downtown Plan area as a nodal development, transit-oriented/pedestrian district, in further compliance with the State Transportation Planning Rule. Well designed mixed-use developments at higher densities which encourage transit use are particularly desired in this area. The amendments do not affect the /ND designation. The code amendment to lower the required Floor to Area Ratio (FAR) from 1.0 to 0.65 does not prevent higher density projects. This amendment would support and facilitate desired downtown area development by reducing the amount of FAR required outside of the downtown core area but within the /TD Transit Oriented Development Overlay Zone. Therefore, the amendments are consistent with statewide planning Goal 12. . Goal 13 - Energy Conservation: To conserve energy. The code amendments do not specifically impact energy conservation, except to encourage compact urban development within the downtown area. This amendment is consistent with Statewide Planning Goal 13. Goal 14 - Urbanization: To provide for an orderly and efficient transition from rural to urban land use. No property is being converted from rural to urban land use. For all the properties affected by these amendments, all necessary urban services are in place. Therefore, the code amendments are consistent with statewide planning Goal 14. Goal 15 - Willamette River Greenway: To protect, conserve, enhance and maintain the natural, scenic, historical, agricultural, economic and recreational qualities of lands along the Willamette River as the Willamette River Greenway. The Willamette Greenway area within the Eugene Urban Growth Boundary is governed by existing local provisions which have been acknowledged as complying with Goal 15. Those provisions are unchanged by this ordinance. Therefore, the amendments are consistent with Exhibit A - 5