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

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costs behind the necessary meetings often present a barrier greater than the technology. In summary, the ideal database addresses many of the difficulties in monitoring land supply. The land base is constantly changing through plan changes, land divisions, and development. Keeping the ideal database current with development activity alone is a significant effort. A PRACTICAL DATABASE FOR THIS PROJECT ECO presents the ideal system as an aspiration to aim towards, not as something that could be developed in this project: the budget and timeline for the current project are many times too small to create the system described in the previous section. Thus, the T AC and consultants needed to decide how to scale back the ideal system. The scope of services outlines some parameters for the product that will result from this project: . The inventory of commercial and industrial lands within the jurisdictions of the City of Springfield (city limits and UGB), City of Eugene (city limits and UGB), and the Metro Plan Area (outside UGBs), shall comply with the research requirements of Oregon Administrative Rule 660-009- 0015 Economic Opportunities Analysis, subsection (3) Inventory of Industrial and Commercial Lands. . The inventory shall include a qualitative component to evaluate opportunities for redevelopment or other use options including assembly of available parcels within the jurisdictions of the City of Springfield (city limits and UGB), City of Eugene (city limits and UGB), and the Metro Plan Area (outside UGBs), to recommend how the use of existing commercial and industrial lands might be maximized. This project did not take on the larger technology and process issues described in the previous section. The practical database can be built in months rather than years, bringing the disperse bits of information that are currently available into a standardized format that can immediately be a useful policy tool. Thus, the database built for this project is based on static table exports from several local jurisdictions' databases, additional table exports from external databases, and tables produced from GIS analysis. In summary, the practical database is a "Single Database Snapshot." It contains data that can be updated, but it does not incorporate the technologies or protocols that allow it to be automatically updated as the data sources from which it draws get updated. Thus, it is a database that can answer many questions about the supply of land by many attributes as of some date (e.g., late 2005). Figure 2-2 shows how the ECONorthwest team compiled data from multiple sources, performed GIS analysis when required, and prepared printed reports and maps. DRAFT: Commercial and Industrial Lands Database ECONorthwest July 2006 Page 7