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RESPONSES TO ELECTED OFFICIAL COMMENTS AND QUESTIONS <br />AND PUBLIC TESTIMONY: <br /> <br />The following section summarizes the issues raised in the record of the February 10, 2004 Joint <br />Elected Officials' Public Heating and provides staff responses. For the complete set of <br />comments, questions, and testimony, please refer to Attachment A: February 10, 2004 Minutes <br />of the Joint Work Session and Public Heating and Attachment B: Testimony and additional <br />information submitted for the February 10, 2004 public heating record. <br /> <br />Non-Periodic Review issues and responses are presented first, as these are outside the scope of <br />this Periodic Review effort. This section is followed by issues and comments specific to Periodic <br />Review Exhibits A, B, and C. <br /> <br />NON-PERIODIC REVIEW ISSUES: <br /> <br />At the heating, several issues were raised that were unrelated to the Periodic Review work tasks <br />proposed for adoption as part of this public hearing process. Staff offers the following responses <br />to these issues. <br /> <br />1. Metro Plan Policies Related to Urban Services and Local Autonomy in Metro <br /> Planning <br /> <br /> At the heating, the elected officials directed staff to prepare a Scope of Work to address <br /> these issues and to bring the scope to MPC. Staff has developed a Draft Scope of Work <br /> which will be presented to MPC in the near future. <br /> <br />2. Complete the Willamette River Greenway Study <br /> <br /> The original Periodic Review Work Program contained a work task to complete this <br /> study. No Metro Plan policy changes were anticipated from this study. The purpose of <br /> the study was to report on the cumulative impacts to the Greenway of development <br /> permits issued since the Metro Plan was last updated in 1987. Staff began work on the <br /> study but the intensity of the focus has shifted to the adoption of the mandated work tasks <br /> that are the subject of the current adoption process. The study was removed from the <br /> Periodic Review work program because, with the passage of Senate Bill 920, it was no <br /> longer mandated. The study is currently on the local work program and can be <br /> programmed for completion in keeping with local work program priorities. <br /> <br />3. Increase Air Quality Monitoring Stations <br /> <br /> The research and analysis needed to draft policy direction related to the number and/or <br /> location of stations is outside the scope of this Periodic Review effort, ff there is interest <br /> on the part of the three elected bodies to pursue this work in the future, the task could be <br /> added to local work programs. <br /> <br />Metro Plan Periodic Review Text and Diagram Amendments Staff Notes Page 4 of 28 <br /> City Council Agenda page 306 <br /> <br /> <br />