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Planning & Development Planning City of Eugene 99 West 10th Avenue MEMORANDUM (541) 682-5377 (541) 682-5572 FAX www. ci.eugene.or, us Date: November 19, 2004 To: Fire Chief Tom Tallon From: Kurt Yeiter, Principal Planner Subject: Metro Plan Guidance for Service Delivery This memorandum describes guidance provided by the Eugene-Springfield Metropolitan Area General (Metro) Plan regarding service delivery and actions that would be necessary if regional services were desired that are contrary to the Metro Plan directives. One of the basic themes in the Metro Plan is that Eugene and Springfield should be the providers of services inside their Urban Growth Boundaries. "The Metro Plan is based on the premise that Eugene and Springfield, the two existing cities, are the logical providers of services accommodating urban levels of development within the urban growth boundary." Plan Principles, Metro Plan page II-1 This theme is reinforced by the following objective: Identify methods of establishing an urban transition program which will eventually reduce service delivery inefficiencies by providing for the provision of key urban services only by cities." Plan Principles, Growth management and the urban Service Area, Objectives, Metro Plan page II-B-3 (emphasis added). "Key Urban Services" are defined by the Metro Plan as including, at a minimum, the following: wastewater service, stormwater service, solid waste management, water service, fire and emergency medical services, police protection, citywide parks and recreation programs, electric service, land use controls, communication facilities, and public schools on a district-wide basis (in other words, not necessarily within walking distance of all students served). A full range of urban services, as defined by the Metro Plan, would also include urban public transit, natural gas, street lighting, libraries, local parks, local recreation facilities and services, and health services. The updated 2004 Metro Plan (currently under appeal) would also add 'transportation' to this definition. There are other policies throughout the Metro Plan that support these basic principles. For example, the Metro Plan states a preference for property to annex to a city prior to development, which sets up the city as the service provider. The Lane County Boundary Commission recently acknowledged these directives, collectively, as a basic principle of the Metro Plan by denying an application of the City of Springfield to annex their urban fire services to the Willakenzie Rural Fire Protection District. The Boundary Commission