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e IV. PUBLIC HEARING: ANNEXATION/REZONING REQUEST FOR PROPERTIES LOCAT- ED WEST OF RIVER ROAD BETWEEN KINGSBURY AVENUE AND LYNNBROOK DRIVE (GENERATION INVESTMENT CO.) (AZ 87-13) City Manager Mike Gleason introduced the item. Gary Chenkin of the Planning Department presented the staff report. He said the request involved approximately 59 acres that were inside the urban growth boundary but non-contiguous to existing city limits. The request had been made by the owner of all but about one and one-half acres of the annexation. The entire area now was vacant and undeveloped with the exception of three farm accessory buildings. The property was located between two developed, low-density residential subdivisions to the north and south, and current zoning was Suburban Residential and Agricultural Urbanizable Land in the County. It was designated for low-density residential use in the applicable Santa Clara/River Road Facilities Plan. A sewer line was adjacent to the majority of the property on the north and west boundaries, and Mr. Chenkin said the owner's intent to develop the property, using the available sewers, was a primary reason for the request. e Mr. Chenkin noted that the criteria considered by the Planning Commission in its deliberations were described beginning on Page I-A-2 of the staff notes dated December 1, 1987. He also noted that a recent amendment to the Metropolitan Plan had been approved by all three jurisdictions and referred to non-contiguous annexations. He reviewed the three criteria for those annexations according to the amendment: 1) an urban service must be desired by the owners and available to the property--Mr. Chenkin said sewers were the main urban service desired, and public safety was another; 2) urban services must be available to be provided in a timely, cost-efficient manner and be a logical extension to the property--Mr. Chenkin said elaboration of that, and the minutes of Planning Commission discussion, were included in council packets; and 3) the non-contiguous annexation must be supported by the owners of at least half the area. Mr. Chenkin said earlier discussions largely had concerned whether the annexation was needed. He said the Metro Plan required that at least a six- to ten-year supply of buildable and subdividable land be maintained inside the urban growth boundary. When the Metro Plan had been updated from the 1990 Plan, Mr. Chenkin said a good deal of discussion among the development community and government bodies had indicated a desire to ensure setting the urban growth boundary in a way that would allow an adequate supply of residential land, so that housing prices would not be driven up. Mr. Chenkin said the most current calculations available, for the period 1977 through 1986, showed about nine years of subdividable land and about seven and one-half years of buildable land in the Eugene portion of the urban growth boundary. Mr. Chenkin added that predicting the amount of needed land was not a precise science but provided the best information available. e Mr. Chenkin said the Planning Commission also had raised the point that this would be the first time in the history of the community that a fully MINUTES--Eugene City Council February 8, 1988 Page 23