Item 1: PH on Ordinance Amending Metro Plan (Delta Sand and Gravel)

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(B) Potential conflicts to local roads used for access and egress to the mining site within one mile of the entrance to the mining site unless a greater distance is necessary in order to include the intersection with the nearest arterial identified in the local transportation plan. Conflicts shall be determined based on clear and objective standards regarding sight distances, road capacity, cross section elements, horizontal and vertical alignment, and similar items in the transportation plan and implementing ordinances. Such standards for trucks associated with the mining operation shall be equivalent to standards for other trucks of equivalent size, weight, and capacity that haul other materials; The applicant requested a waiver of the analysis of potential traffic conflicts due to the proposed project under Lane Code 15.697 (1): A traffic impact analysis may be required as part of a complete land use application for any of the following: (c) any plan amendment proposal unless waived by the County Engineer as specified below; LC 15.697 (2) The County Engineer or designee may waive traffic impact analysis requirement specified above when: (b) In the case of a plan amendment or zone change, the scale and size of the proposal is insignificant, eliminating the need for detailed traffic analysis of the performance of roadway facilities for the 20-year planning horizon. Whether the scale and size of a proposal may be considered insignificant may depend on the existing level of service on affected roadways. Generally, a waiver to traffic impact analysis will be approved when: (i) the plan designation or zoning that results will be entirely a resource designation. File Record No. 42, Exhibit 30 See for the County Engineer waiver of the requirement for a traffic impact analysis under LC 15.697(2). The County agreed with the applicants analysis that the scale and size of the proposed extraction rate in the expansion area does not warrant detailed traffic analysis of roadway performance. This waiver releases the applicant from the Exhibit 45 requirement to conduct further traffic impact analysis. See for Land Watch letter asserting this analysis must be completed. Both Planning Commissions considered the traffic conflict analysis waiver and public works response, and both voted unanimously that there is no conflict due to traffic under the Goal 5 Rule. (C) Safety conflicts with existing public airports due to bird attractants, i.e., open water impoundments as specified under OAR Chapter 660, Division 013; Not applicable to this PAPA. (D) Conflicts with other Goal 5 resource sites within the impact area that are shown on an acknowledged list of significant resources and for which the requirements of Goal 5 have been completed at the time the PAPA is initiated; There are two wetlands identified on the site, a pond and a Willamette River remnant oxbow. The pond is an-old quarry pit, created by gravel extraction prior to 1977, and it is identified on the Division of State Lands (DSL) Wetland Inventory and the Lane County Metro Plan Goal 5 Inventory. Safe Harbor provisions applicable to the pond were adopted by Lane County for Goal 5 Resources outside the UGB and within the Metro Plan Boundary though Ordinance No. 1197 in 2004. The oxbow remnant is also on the DSL Wetland Inventory, and the Eugene Goal 5 Wetlands Inventory. It is identified as Site E-57, a segment of the East Santa Clara Waterway. The Eugene Goal 5 Inventory has been adopted by the Board of Commissioners, however, the resource protection measures for City of Eugene sites within the UGB has not yet been co- adopted by the Board. Board/Council Hearing – Ordinance No. PA 1238 Delta Sand & Gravel Expansion Agenda Cover Memo Page 10 of 23