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in response (traffic totals from 1992, extrapolated for 2005) are insufficient. Exhibit 28. There is no way for the City to determine the frequency of the trips, which roads are being used, the timing in comparison to peak hour traffic on the effected roads, etc. Without such information, the City cannot make any determinations as to road capacity, for example, as required by OAR 660-023-180(5)(b)(B). The applicant's representatives testified before the Planning Commissions that the economy and demand controlled what could be sold, that production had been increasing by approximately one percent per year, and that traffic on Hunsaker Lane would be the result of the projects that Delta was involved in. Avon Lee Babbs and George Staples, Planning Commission minutes January 17, 2006, pages 6, 7. If levels of use increase in the new excavation area because demand increases, then traffic will increase. This potential increase in traffic was not analyzed by the applicant. Without more detailed data establishing the site's current traffic impacts or future demand for the excavated product, the assertion that the site will continue to have its current level of impact has little meaning. It provides no way for the City to assess the potential conflicts pursuant to OAR 660-023-180(5)(b )(B). Numerous participants raised concerns about current and continued conflicts with traffic to and from the site. See, e.g. Exhibit 3,7, 14, 16,20,21,22,23,27,275. In light of such testimony, the City finds that the applicant's response to this approval criterion is an insufficient basis on which to determine if the criterion is met. As such, if the site were a significant resource, the application would fail based on this criterion. (C) Safety conflicts with existing public airports due to bird attractants, i.e., open water impoundments as specified under OAR Chapter 660, Division 013; The Eugene Airport is the only existing public airport in the general metropolitan area and is located several miles from the proposed expansion area and outside the impact area. Due to that distance separating the airport from the proposed expansion area, we find that any bird attraction by open water impoundment on the expansion area will be negligible if at all. Furthermore, this provision is no longer applicable since the December 23, 1996 effective date of adoption of division 13 of OAR Chapter 660, which carries out Chapter 285, Oregon Laws 1985. (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; A meandering scar of the Willamette River ("East Santa Clara Waterway") is located on a portion of the northwestern boundary of the expansion area and constitutes a wetland within the impact area. This waterway was added to the City's and County's Goal 5 inventories as a "Category D" stream, which requires a setback of20 feet. No other Goal 5 resources shown on a Metro Plan acknowledged list of significant resources exist within the impact area. Lane County has authorized a variance that would allow "construction" of the aquaclude inside the DEQ 150- foot mandatory setback, which would move the area of disturbance nearer this Goal 5 resource. . The variance is to the DEQ setback, not the locally-adopted Goal 5 setback, and would not allow any construction activities within the Goal 5 setback. The locally adopted Goal 5 setback along East Santa Clara Waterway of 20 feet would still be met. The opponents argue that the existence and operation of the aquaclude (see discussion below regarding the aquaclude) will negatively impact the water levels and, consequently, the functions Exhibit A to Ordinance 20413 - 16