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and Restoration designations as described in Exhibit A. For the analysis below, the site will be considered as a whole, and will also be considered in separate units as designated for Protection, Restoration and Development. The site characteristics used to divide the site into these subareas are as follows: Area Designated for Protection: The characteristic that defines the area designated for Protection is primarily the area surrounding the Speedway facility that has not been plowed and does not get mowed annually for hay. It is distinguishable on recent aerial photographs of the site. This area is at some points as much as 1,000 feet across from east to west. Area Designated for Restoration: The characteristics that define the area designated for Restoration, include occurrences of rare plants along its north, east, south and west boundaries, and the areas of contiguity with wetlands to the south and Willow Creek and protected wetlands to the east and the unplowed area to the north. Area Designated for Development: The characteristics that define the area designated for Development include the absence of rare plants, being next to existing development along most of three sides, being primarily designated for industrial development, providing an access corridor to the Speedway facility and having significant frontage along West 11 th Avenue and Willow Creek Road. The following interpretations of terms and phrases used in the Wetland Designation Criteria are adopted herein and applied to the analyses under the Criteria below. Site: The term "site," as used in the Wetland Designation Criteria, is interpreted to mean the entire wetland site, as mapped in the West Eugene Wetland Conservation Plan Inventory. Each "site" in the inventory has a unique label (e.g., H2). Although the entire wetland system is interconnected, each individual site has some characteristics that make it distinctive from other sites. On the inventory maps, all wetlands that share the same site label are considered to be part of one wetland site. For the purposes of the analysis under the Wetland Designation Criteria, each (entire) site is analyzed under the Criteria to determine how to designate the site. On sites where this analysis leads to the conclusion that two or more wetland designations should be applied to the site, it is instructive to apply the Criteria to sub-areas of the site, although this is notrequired. This should not be construed to mean these sub-areas are considered "sites." Rather, this additional level of analysis is offered to provide confirmation of the designation of sub-areas within the site that receives multiple wetland designations. Adjacent to or surrounded by existing development: This phrase, as used in Development Criterion #3 ("Site is adjacent to or surrounded by existing development") Speedway Site Ordinance, Exhibit C (Refinement Plan Amendment Findings) Page 3