Item 3: Minor Code Amendments and Land Use Regulations

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ATTACHMENT D Replacement Goal 12 Findings for Alternative B1 or B2 Goal 12- Transportation. To provide and encourage a safe, convenient and economic transportation system. The Transportation Planning Rule (OAR 660-012-0060) contains the following requirement: (1) Amendments to functional plans, acknowledged comprehensive plans, and land use regulations which significantly affect a transportation facility shall assure that allowed land uses are consistent with the identified function, capacity, and performance standards (e.g. level of service, volume to capacity ratio, etc.) of the facility.... (2) A plan or land use regulation amendment significantly affects a transportation facility if it: (a) Changes the functional classification of an existing or planned transportation facility; (b) Changes standards implementing a functional classification system; (c) Allows types or levels of land uses which would result in levels of travel or access which are inconsistent with the functional classification of a transportation facility; or (d) Would reduce the performance standards of the facility below the minimum acceptable level identified in the TSP Due to the minor nature of these amendments, the amendments do not affect the provision of safe, convenient and economic transportation systems and do not significantly affect any transportation facilities. In a May 27, 2008 letter to the City, the Department of Land Conservation and Development (DLCD) has asserted that the City must show how the imposition of building height transitions in the South University neighborhood (EC 9.2751(3)(c)) is “consistent with the region’s development strategy required by OAR 660-012-0035(5).” The City interprets DLCD’s assertion to mean that the City is required to show the amendment is consistent with the performance measures in TransPlan that were adopted in 2002 pursuant to OAR 660-012-0035(5). DLCD specifically refers to the performance measure that calls for 23.3% of new dwelling units in Eugene and Springfield to be to be in areas designated for nodal development by 2015. While a portion of the South University neighborhood is identified in TransPlan as being part of a “Potential Nodal Development Area,” no portion of the South University neighborhood has received the Nodal Development Area designation in the Metro Plan and no portion has been rezoned to include the /ND Nodal Development overlay zone. Similarly, DLCD raises a concern that the increase in parking requirements for new multi-family developments in the West University and South University neighborhoods will encourage automobile use in a nodal area. Like the South University neighborhood, a portion of the West University neighborhood is identified in TransPlan as being part of a “Potential Nodal Development Area,” but no portion of the neighborhood has received the Nodal Development Area designation in the Metro Plan and no portion has been rezoned to include the /ND Nodal Development overlay zone. It is not clear that any of the areas affected by the height and parking amendments will be designated