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<br />RESOLUTION NO. 'Is?' g' <br /> <br />A RESOLUTION SUPPORTING THE CONCEPT OF A <br />COORDINATED GROWTH MANAGEMENT STRATEGY <br />FOR THE SOUTHERN WILLAMETTE VALLEY REGION <br />(CENTRAL LANE COUNTY). <br /> <br />The City Council of the City of Eugene finds that: <br /> <br />A. Lane Council of Governments (LCOG) has determined that there is a need for local <br />governments and service providers to take a regional approach to growth management in the <br />Southern Willamette Valley, including the Eugene-Springfield metropolitan area and the <br />surrounding commute shed, based on inter-city commute patterns. <br /> <br />B. In 1990, one-quarter to three-quarters of the resident workers in Coburg, Cottage <br />Grove, Creswell, Junction City, Lowell, Oakridge/Westfir, and Veneta commuted to Eugene- <br />Springfield to work. Three percent to 40 percent of the jobs in those cities were held by residents <br />of Eugene-Springfield. <br /> <br />C. The role these cities play in the future growth of the region needs to be considered <br />in addressing growth-related issues in these cities, including maintaining community identity, <br />providing a balance of jobs and housing, efficient transportation facilities, and adequate public <br />activities and services to support the level and type of desired growth, and ensuring orderly, <br />efficient urban growth to minimize costs. <br /> <br />D. These inter-city commute patterns have impacts on air quality and state and <br />metropolitan transportation systems and their ability to efficiently move people and goods. <br /> <br />E. Interstate-5 faces congestion with few alternative north/south routes and the adequacy <br />of road connections to Interstate-5 and east/west connections across Interstate-5 is in question. <br />These conditions may impact the movement of people and goods and the economies of these cities <br />and create the need for coordinated and consistent corridor management to maintain the planned <br />functions of these transportation systems. <br /> <br />F. Public transportation can address some of the travel needs of inter-city commutes if <br />planned in a coordinated manner that considers urban and rural bus service, transit links between <br />adjacent cities and regional inter-modal connections, including bus, rail and air. <br /> <br />G. It is important to preserve the environmental quality, economy, life style, livability, <br />and identity of the region and its member communities by protecting open space and valuable <br />agricultural, forest and mineral resources, and managing and protecting watersheds, stream corridors, <br />and wetland systems. <br /> <br />Resolution - 1 <br />