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<br />designation in order to be given that designation. The restoration designation shall be <br />used to identify sites considered important primarily for their location and function in the <br />larger wetland system, and the restoration criteria shall be applied when a site does not <br />clearly meet either the protection or development standards or the protection or <br />development criteria as a whole. <br /> <br />Protection <br /> <br />Standard <br />1. Sites designated "Natural Resource" on the Metropolitan Area General Plan <br />diagram shall be designated for protection. <br /> <br />No portion of the Hyundai site is designated "Natural Resource" on the Metro Plan diagram. The <br />site does not meet this standard. <br /> <br />Criteria <br />1. Site contains population(s) of one or more rare plant or animal species and <br />contains sufficient and suitable habitat for the long-term protection of the <br />population(s). This criterion is not met if only small occurrences of a species are <br />found on a site with limited suitable habitat that is isolated from other <br />undeveloped parcels. <br /> <br />Rare plant surveys completed during 1996 found two individual plants of Erigeron decumbens <br />var. decumbens, one of which occurs within the southeast field. The surveyors also mention in <br />their report that they found a population of Cicendia quadrangularis along the east-west ditch, <br />300 feet from Willow Creek Road. This population of Cicendia is not within the southwest or <br />southeast fields or the "north area", according to maps of that area submitted by Hyundai. The <br />surveyors also say that they did not systematically search for Cicendia. Both of these species are <br />listed as "rare" in the West Eugene Wetlands Plan. <br /> <br />No rare threatened or endangered plants were found within the area designated for Development <br />on the north end of the site, or in the area designated for Protection in the southwest portion of <br />the site. <br /> <br />The intent of the wording of the criterion above was to separate sites with large or diverse <br />populations from those with just a few individual plants of one species. We find that one <br />individual plant separated by 200 meters and a road from a nearby population does not qualify <br />as a population unto itself or as part of the nearby population under the intent of this criterion. <br />Therefore, we conclude that no part of the site meets Protection Criterion # 1. <br /> <br />2. Site is primarily within the 100 year floodplain. <br /> <br />None of the site is within a 100 year floodplain. Therefore, no part of this site meets this criterion. <br /> <br />Hyundai Site Ordinance, Exhibit C (Refinement Plan Amendment Findings) <br /> <br />Page 6 <br />