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Exhibit D Findings for AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE EUGENE-SPRINGFIELD METROPOLITAN AREA GENERAL PLAN DIAGRAM AND THE FAIRMOUNT/UNIVERSITY OF OREGON SPECIAL AREA STUDY DIAGRAM AND TEXT; AMENDING SECTIONS 9.8865 AND 9.9570 OF THE EUGENE CODE, 1971; ADDING NEW SECTIONS 9.4200, 9.4205, 9.4210, 9.4215, AND 9.4220 TO THAT CODE; ADOPTING A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE; AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE. Comprehensive Plan Diagram Amendments Eugene Code Section 9.7730(3) requires that the following criteria (in bold and italic) be applied to a Metro Plan diagram amendment. (a) The amendment must be consistent with the relevant Statewide Planning Goals adopted by the Land Conservation and Development Commission. Goal 1 Citizen Involvement: To develop a citizen involvement program that insures the opportunity for citizens to be involved in all phases of the planning process. The City has acknowledged provisions for citizen involvement that ensure the opportunity for citizens to be invdlved in all phases of the planning process and set out requirements for such involvement. The action taken did not amend the citizen involvement program. The process for adopting these amendments complied with Goal 1 since it complied with, and surpassed the requirements of, the citizen involvement provisions. The City of Eugene land use code implements Statewide Planning Goal 1 by requiting that notice of the proposed amendments be given and public hearings be held prior to adoption. Consideration of the East Campus Plan amendments began with a Eugene Planning Commission public heating on November 18, 2003. Department of Land Conservation and Development notice, notice to property owners and interested parties and newspaper publication was provided for that hearing. An additional public hearing before the Eugene City Council is scheduled for February 23, 2004. Notice to interested and affected parties will be provided for that heating. The process for adopting these amendments complies with Goal 1 since it complies with, and surpasses the requirements of the State's citizen involvement provisions. The City of Eugene has determined that the multiple applications to be considered will be processed as a Type V (legislative) process. The proposed amendment applications are subject to the public notification and heating processes adopted by the City of Eugene in Eugene Code section EC 9.7720 and 9.7735. The notification and heating processes required by the code have been followed, even though the City Council approved an alternative process and schedule for the East Campus Plan Amendment applications on City Council Agenda page 235