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<br />state and local agencies who manage these lands for conservation of wetlands. So while these <br />acres are included in the analysis above, the land was not truly available for industrial <br />development before these amendments were proposed. The net impact to privately owned, Light <br />Medium Industrial land, then, is a decrease of 11.5 acres. <br /> <br />One wetland site outside the city limits was removed from the buildable lands inventory (site <br />BA, amendment #21) and it totals 2.13 acres. This site is designated for light medium industrial <br />use. It does not currently have urban services. Most of the reductions to the buildable lands <br />inventory occur within the city limits where services are available. However, within the city <br />limits, 55 acres of wetlands with high development value and low wetland value are designated <br />for development, in part to recognize the available services there. No industrial land outside city <br />limits was designated for development in these amendments. <br /> <br />These reductions to the buildable lands inventory affect a proportionately small area in <br />comparison to the total supply of available industrial land. The amendments to the West Eugene <br />Wetlands Plan leave adequate industrial land within the Eugene-Springfield metropolitan area <br />within the 20-year planning period. Therefore, these amendments are consistent with Goal 9 <br />with respect to industrial land. <br /> <br />If all of the developable industrial land on the HG and H2 sites were designated for Protection or <br />Restoration (see assumptions above), this would remove an additional 73.7 acres from the <br />industrial buildable lands inventory. Together with the reductions from amendments included in <br />this ordinance, these designations would bring the total reduction in buildable industrial land <br />from all three ordinances to 13I.8 acres. This would leave 3,417.4 acres of buildable industrial <br />land available, which represents a supply that is 2,245 acres more than the maximum projected <br />twenty-year demand for 1,172 acres of industrial land. Therefore, no matter how much wetland <br />on the HG and H2 sites is designated for Protection or Restoration, after all of the amendments <br />are adopted, there will be sufficient buildable industrial land remaining to meet the projected 20- <br />year demand. <br /> <br />Commercial Lands <br /> <br />The Eugene Commercial Lands Study (1992), provides an analysis of the supply and demand for <br />commercial land within Eugene. The study was prepared by the Eugene Planning Commission, <br />and it serves as a refinement to the Metropolitan Area General Plan. According to the findings <br />contained in this study, the total supply of commercial land was 702 acres (adjusted total <br />supply).5 The projected twenty-year demand for vacant commercial land (within the Eugene <br />portion of the Urban Growth Boundary only) was 532 acres, including 109 acres of developable <br />office land and 423 acres of non-office commercia1.6 For the purposes of this analysis, <br /> <br />5 <br /> <br />Eugene Commercial Lands Study, Eugene Planning and Development Department, 777 Pearl <br />Street, Room 106, Eugene, Oregon, 1992, p. 1l-15. <br /> <br />6 <br /> <br />Ibid., p.Il-15. <br /> <br />Multiple Site Amendments Ordinance, Exhibit B (Statewide Planning Goal Findings) <br /> <br />Page 10 <br />