Item 1: Supply of Commercial and Industrial Land in Lane County

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LANE COUNCIL 01' GOVEllNMRNTS , ..' 6 July 2006 To: Lane County Board of Commissioners, Eugene City Council, Springfield City Council From: Lane County Commercial and Industrial Buildable Lands Technical Advisory Committee RE: DRAFT COMMERCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL BUILDABLE LANDS DATABASE AND PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS In 2005, Lane County, the Cities of Eugene and Springfield, and the Lane Metro Partnership agreed to sponsor the development of a commercial and industrial buildable lands database system for Lane County and the Metro area. The intent of the project was to "acquire an accurate and agreed-upon inventory of industrial and commercial land within the urbanized areas of the two cities, the Metro Plan Area, and the unincorporated rural lands of the county." This project was intended to result in a shared inventory of factual data that all of the partners will have a high level of confidence in and on which each of the partners can base future policy decisions. The four sponsor organizations formed a Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) that included staff from Lane County, the Cities of Eugene and Springfield, and the Lane Metro Partnership. Over the past nine months, that TAC has worked closely with our consultant, ECONorthwest, to develop the Lane County Commercial and Industrial Buildable Lands Database. This was an extremely complex project, and we have done our best to develop a database system that meets the overarching goal of this project. We are pleased to present you the draft report by ECONorthwest. The report summarizes the purpose of the project, the methods the consulting team used to develop the database, and perhaps most interesting to you, a preliminary summary of the database. It is worth noting that the results presented in the draft report are simply summaries of the data. As the report states "This project is not intended to present a buildable lands inventory that the sponsor governments will adopt. Moreover, it is not and should not be construed as a policy document. The sponsor governments (Eugene, Springfield, and Lane County) will have to conduct additional work and analysis to develop a buildable lands inventory consistent with Goal 9 and OAR 660-009. That work will include developing a set of working assumptions that are justified by findings as well as data summaries and maps that can be adopted as the buildable lands inventory as required by Goal 9 and OAR 660-009- 0015(3)." We look forward to sharing the results of the project with you on July 12th. 99 EAST BROA.DWAY, SUITE 400,. EUGENE" OREGON 97401 -3111 www.lcog.org (541) 682-4283