Item 6: Ordinance on Delta Sand and Gravel

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allowed new evidence only with respect to one of the applications, but not the others. By providing for all of the procedural safeguards for a quasi- judicial evidentiary hearing, the City and County ensured that Goal 1 was satisfied.” Staff Recommendation: In response to Council direction given at Council’s April 21, 2008 meeting, staff has performed further analysis of the application’s consistency with Goal 1. Based on that analysis, staff recommends that the City’s final decision include the above findings with no changes. 2. Transportation-Related Impacts In this case, the City is required to consider traffic impacts under both Statewide Planning Goal 5 and Statewide Planning Goal 12. The applicant did not provide a traffic study, as the applicant maintains that there will be no additional impact over current operations. The applicant’s material indicates that the traffic volumes and location of ingress and egress will not change from current operations, and identifies the local roads to be used for access and egress. The County Engineer waived the requirement for a traffic impact analysis as permitted in Lane Code 15.697(2) because the Engineer made the determination that the scale and size of the proposal is insignificant, eliminating the need for detailed traffic analysis of the performance of roadway facilities for the 20-year planning horizon. A. Statewide Planning Goal 5 The Goal 5 rule requires the City to make an initial determination as to whether the information in the application is “adequate.” OAR 660-023-0180(8). As relevant to this application, the transportation-related portion of that rule provides that an application “shall be adequate” if it includes: “(c) A traffic impact assessment within one mile of the entrance to the mining area pursuant to section (5)(b)(B) of this rule;” OAR 660-023-0180(5)(b)(B) provides: OAR 660-023-180(5) -- For significant mineral and aggregate sites, local governments shall decide whether mining is permitted. For a PAPA application involving an aggregate site determined to be significant under section (3) of this rule, the process for this decision is set out in subsections (a) through (g) of this section. * * * (b) The local government shall determine existing or approved land uses within the impact area that will be adversely affected by proposed mining operations and shall specify the predicted conflicts. For purposes of this