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Plan leave adequate industrial land within the Eugene-Springfield metropolitan area within the 20-year planning period. Therefore, these amendments are consistent with Goal 9 with respect to industrial land. The wetland designations previously adopted for the Hyundai site removed a total of 50.2 acres of industrial land from the supply of buildable lands. The wetland designations previously adopted through the "multiple sites" ordinance removed a total of 54.8 acres of industrial buildable land. Together with the reductions from amendments included in this ordinance, these designations would bring the total reduction in buildable industrial land from all three ordinances to 114.7 acres. This would leave 3,489.6 acres of buildable industrial land available, which represents a supply that is 2,317.6 acres more than the maximum projected twenty-year demand for 1,1 72 acres of industrial land. Therefore, after adoption of the amendments in all three ordinances, there will be sufficient buildable industrial land remaining to meet the projected 20- year demand. Commercial Lands The Eugene Commercial Lands Study (1992), provides an analysis of the supply and demand for commercial land within Eugene. The study was prepared by the Eugene Planning Commission, and it serves as a refinement to the Metropolitan Area General Plan. According to the findings contained in this study, the total supply of commercial land was 702 acres (adjusted total supply).4 The projected twenty-year demand for vacant commercial land (within the Eugene portion of the Urban Growth Boundary only) was 532 acres, including 109 acres of developable office land and 423 acres of non-office commercia1.s For the purposes of this analysis, 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 as a part of these amendments would, in effect, decrease the inventory of commercial land by 4.8 acres. This represents a reduction in the overall supply of commercial lands of less than 1 %, leaving 697.2 acres of inventoried commercial land. This is 165 acres more than the projected twenty-year demand of 532 acres. 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 4 Eugene Commercial Lands Study, Eugene Planning and Development Department, 777 Pearl Street, Room 106, Eugene, Oregon, 1992, p. 11-15. 5 Ibid., p.II-I5. Speedway Site Ordinance, Exhibit B (Statewide Planning Goal Findings) Page 9