Item 4: Metro Plan Amendment for River Ridge LTD/Jeffries

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ECC UGENE ITY OUNCIL AIS GENDA TEM UMMARY Action: Initiation of Metro Plan Amendment for River Ridge LTD/Jeffries Meeting Date: August 11, 2008 Agenda Item Number: 4 Department: Planning and Development Staff Contact: Alissa Hansen www.eugene-or.gov Contact Telephone Number: 541/682-5508 ISSUE STATEMENT This item is a request for the City Council to initiate an amendment to the Eugene-Springfield Metropolitan General Area Plan (Metro Plan) to re-designate property owned by River Ridge LTD/Deborah and Eric Jeffries from Parks and Open Space to Low Density Residential on the Metro Plan land use diagram. Initiation of such an amendment does not infer City Council support for the amendment, but rather begins the public process through which the council will consider the merits of the amendment. BACKGROUND The property subject to this request is located at the northwest corner of Ayres Road and North Delta Highway and consists of approximately 63 acres. A portion of the subject property is within the city limits, while the remainder is located between the city limits and the urban growth boundary (UGB). A portion of the property also lies outside of the UGB; however, that portion is not subject to this initiation request. A map of the subject property is provided as Attachment A. The subject property has been developed with the privately owned RiverRidge Golf Course since 1988 and also contains two residences. The current base zoning of the subject property is R-1 Low Density Residential and the current land use designation is Parks and Open Space in both the Metro Plan and the Willakenzie Area Plan. In 2004, City Council approved a Metro Plan amendment that was a comprehensive update of the land use diagram, often referred to as the “housekeeping amendments.” One of the purposes of this update was to bring the land use designations in the Metro Plan into alignment with the land use designations found in area-specific refinement plans, such as the Willakenzie Area Plan. As part of the housekeeping amendments, the Metro Plan designation for the River Ridge LTD/Jeffries property subject to this request was changed from Low Density Residential to Parks and Open Space to bring the property’s Metro Plan designation into alignment with its designation in the Willakenzie Area Plan, the applicable adopted refinement plan. The base zoning of the subject property remained R-1 Low Density Residential. Although this action resulted in consistency and alignment between the land use diagrams of the Metro Plan and the Willakenzie Area Plan, this action also resulted in unintended consequences for the subject property. When the Willakenzie Area Plan was adopted in 1992, the subject property was designated Parks/Open Space in that plan. This designation was applied in recognition of the existing golf course use of the Z:\CMO\2008 Council Agendas\M080811\S0808114.doc