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developable office is land designated in the Metropolitan Area General Plan for commercial use, which is zoned GO General Office. No land zoned General Office was affected by the amendments. Therefore, there is no impact to the supply of office commercial land as a result of these amendments. Wetland designation changes to protection or restoration resulting from this ordinance would, in effect, decrease the inventory of commercial land by 5.3 acres (see Table 3). This represents a reduction in the overall supply of commercial lands of less than 1 %, leaving about 697 acres of inventoried commercial land. This is 165 acres more than the projected twenty-year demand. Since no office commercial lands were impacted, it must be assumed that all impacts are to the non-office commercial category. The projected demand for this category is 423 acres. According to the Commercial Lands Study, the inventory of buildable commercial land includes 465 acres of land designated in the Metro Plan for commercial use, but not zoned for office use. An additional 197 acres is included in the inventory that is not categorized between office and non-office use, though a percentage of it can be assumed available for non-office commercial. U sing only the 465 acres explicitly denoted in the Commercial Lands Study, after subtracting the 5.3 acres removed by protection of wetlands in these amendments, 460 acres are left, which is 37 acres more than the proj ected demand for this category. Given a supply of commercial land greater than the projected demand for all commercial and non-office commercial after the reductions associated with these amendments to the West Eugene Wetlands Plan, the amendments leave an adequate supply of commercial land within the Urban Growth Boundary for the 20-year planning period. Therefore, the amendments are consistent with Goal 9 with respect to commercial land. If all of the developable commercial land on the HG and H2 sites were designated for Protection or Restoration (see assumptions above), this would remove an additional 5 acres from the commercial buildable lands inventory. Together with the reductions from amendments included in this ordinance, these designations would bring the total reduction in buildable commercial land from all three ordinances to 10 acres. This would leave 692 acres of buildable commercial land, which represents a supply that is 160 acres more than the maximum projected twenty-year demand for 523 acres of commercial land. Therefore, no matter how much wetland on the HG and H2 sites is designated for Protection or Restoration, after all of the amendments are adopted, there will be sufficient buildable commercial land remaining to meet the projected 20-year demand. Goal! 0 - Housing The purpose of Goal 10 is to provide for housing needs of the citizens of the state. Findings: Multiple Site Amendments Ordinance, Exhibit B (Statewide Planning Goal Findings) Page II