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

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Groundwater ? A low permeability barrier shall be constructed in advance of proceeding excavation in the expansion area consistent with the recommendations of EGR. (f) Where mining is allowed, the local government shall determine the post-mining use and provide for this use in the comprehensive plan and land use regulations. For significant aggregate sites on Class I, II and Unique farmland, local governments shall adopt plan and land use regulations to limit post-mining use to farm uses under ORS 215.203, uses listed under ORS 215.213(1) or 215.283(1), and fish and wildlife habitat uses, including wetland mitigation banking. Local governments shall coordinate with DOGAMI regarding the regulation and reclamation of mineral and aggregate sites, except where exempt under ORS 517.780. The applicant’s proposed reclamation plan for the proposed expansion area outlines how the area will be sequentially transformed from open agricultural fields to other use consistent with this rule and land use laws in place at that time. (g) Local governments shall allow a currently approved aggregate processing operation at an existing site to process material from a new or expansion site without requiring a reauthorization of the existing processing operation unless limits on such processing were established at the time it was approved by the local government. The applicant will process material excavated from the proposed expansion area at its existing processing facility located adjacent to the proposed expansion area. Lane County did not establish any limits on the processing of material from adjacent property when the existing processing facility was originally approved and established. Therefore, Lane County and the City of Eugene shall allow the existing Delta Sand and Gravel Company aggregate processing facility to process material excavated from the proposed expansion area. APPROVAL OF THE PAPAIS CONSISTENT WITH OTHER APPLICABLE STATEWIDE GOALS. Consistency with Goal 5 and OAR 660-023-0180 demonstrates consistency with other applicable statewide goals. Nevertheless, other applicable statewide goals are addressed below. Goal 1 - Citizen Involvement To ensure the opportunity for citizen involvement in all phases of the planning process. Chapter Fourteen of the Lane Code provides for a notification and participation process for all quasi-judicial land use matters. Notices of public evidentiary hearings are required to be published in a newspaper of general circulation in the county in conformance with ORS 197.763. By providing the notices required by state law and the Lane Code and the public evidentiary hearings before its planning commission and board of commissioners, Lane County satisfies the requirements and intent of Goal 1. Page 21 – FINDINGS OF FACT