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<br />14 B3 Yes Yes Yes Restore No change* <br />49 HC ? ? ? Undesignated Protect <br />-- <br />50 HD No Yes No U ndesignated Develop <br />55 IA No Yes No U ndesignated Protect <br />58 ID Yes No No Undesignated Develop <br /> <br />*These sites along the potential northern alignment of the West Eugene Parkway were part of the original <br />amendment package have been removed and will be considered at a later date. <br /> <br />The table above shows that nine sites or portions of sites affected by proposed <br />amendments are known to contain a listed rare plant species. One additional site <br />(HC) may contain them, based on known populations nearby on the same lot. <br />Seven of the nine are recommended for Protection, in part to protect the rare <br />plants. Portions of two rare plant sites are recommended to be redesignated to <br />Planned Transportation Corridor (PTC), and these are within potential alignments <br />of a proposed Green Hill Road widening project. The adopted policy for the PTC <br />calls for designs that minimize impacts to rare plants. The result should be the <br />protection of most of the rare plants on these two sites. Two rare plant sites . <br />(amendments 50 and 58) are recommended for Development, due largely to their <br />isolation from other habitat areas by surrounding development. In the case of <br />amendment #50 (site HD) a high level of disturbance also contributed to this <br />conclusion. These sites, and the two sites along Green Hill Road proposed to be <br />designated for Planned Transportation Corridor, would be reviewed for rare plant <br />impacts as part of the required wetland fill permit process. This review would <br />provide an opportunity to take measures to protect or move those populations or <br />mitigate for any impacts to them. <br /> <br />Under the proposed amendments the majority of known populations of listed rare <br />plants would be protected, with the possibility that through the wetland permitting <br />process, all of the plant populations would be protected. Therefore, the proposed <br />amendments are consistent with this policy. <br /> <br />Policy 29, page III -C-ll: "Local governments shall work with owners of <br />designated environmentally-sensitive areas to require that reasonable <br />actions are taken to protect these lands, e.g., the heronry at the confluence <br />of the Willamette and McKenzie Rivers and the site of the Aster curtus in <br />the Willow Creek Basin." <br /> <br />There are two sites within the West Eugene Wetlands Plan area that are <br />designated in the Metro Plan as environmentally sensitive. They are the Willow <br />Creek Natural Area and Bertelsen Slough. The Bertelsen Slough area is owned <br />and managed by the Bureau of Land Management as a protected natural resource <br /> <br />Multiple Site Ordinance, Exhibit C (Refinement Plan Amendment Findings) <br /> <br />Page 9 <br />