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<br />Chapter 1 <br /> <br />Introduction <br /> <br />The purpose of this project is to develop a database of commercial and <br />industrial lands in Lane County. Consistent with that purpose, the primary product <br />of this project was the design and development of the database. This report <br />describes the process for developing the database, a methodological framework <br />for conducting buildable lands inventories, the design of the database, and <br />summary output from the database. <br /> <br />The summary tables presented in Chapter 3 of this report represent a <br />preliminary assessment of the supply of commercial and industrial land in the <br />Eugene-Springfield Urban Growth Boundary (UGB).l This project is not <br />intended to present a buildable lands inventory that the sponsor <br />governments will adopt. Moreover, it is not and should not be construed as a <br />policy document. The sponsor governments (Eugene, Springfield, and Lane <br />County) will have to conduct additional work and analysis to develop a buildable <br />lands inventory consistent with Goal 9 and OAR 660-009. That work will include <br />developing a set of working assumptions that are justified by findings as well as <br />data summaries and maps that can be adopted as the buildable lands inventory as <br />required by Goal 9 and OAR 660-009-0015(3). <br /> <br />BACKGROUND <br /> <br />Statewide planning Goal 9 and the administrative rule that implements it <br />requires incorporated cities to inventory commercial and industrial lands within <br />their Urban Growth Boundaries (OAR 600-009-0015(3)). Moreover, it requires <br />cities to maintain a sufficient inventory of lands designated for commercial and <br />industrial uses to accommodate 20 years of growth. <br /> <br />Previous efforts by local governments in Lane County to inventory <br />commercial and industrial lands include the Metropolitan Industrial Lands <br />Inventory Report (1992), the Eugene Commercial Lands Study (1992), and the <br />Springfield Commercial Lands Study (2001). More recently, the Eugene Chamber <br />of Commerce completed an inventory of commercial and industrial lands in <br />Eugene in 2001. <br /> <br />Subsequent efforts by the Lane Metro Partnership raised the level of <br />awareness among local elected officials about the desirability of an updated land <br />inventory. Moreover, the State's report, The Sufficiency of Industrial and <br />Commercial Lands, identified several key issues related to industrial land supply <br />in Oregon.2 This led to Governor Kulongoski' s "certified" industrial sites <br /> <br />1 The database includes information on all commercial and industrial lands within the Eugene-Springfield UGB as well as in <br />unincorporated Lane County. The preliminary analysis focuses on the Eugene-Springfield UGB because Lane County recently updated the <br />Rural Comprehensive Plan and completed a detailed inventory of lands in unincorporated areas of the County. <br /> <br />2 ECONorthwest wrote the majority of the study as a subcontractor to OTAK. <br /> <br />DRAFT: Commercial and Industrial Lands Database <br /> <br />ECONorthwest <br /> <br />July 2006 <br /> <br />Page 1 <br />