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(a) The amendment must be consistent with the relevant Statewide Planning Goals adopted by the Land Conservation and Development Commission; and (b) Adoption of the amendment must not make the Metro Plan internally inconsistent. Statewide Planning Goal] To ensure the opportunity for citizen involvement in all phases of the planning process. Chapter 9 of the Eugene Code provides for a notification ,and participation process for all quasi- judicial land use matters. Notice was provided in conformance to these requirements. By providing the notices required by state law and the Eugene Code and public evidentiary hearings before its planning commission and City Council, the City of Eugene satisfies the requirements of Goal 1. Some participants raised concerns about the procedures used to consider the application. The applicant's request is composed of numerous applications. Those applications, taken alone, would be subject to different review procedures under the City and County Codes. Under one applicable process, the City Council and Board of Commissioners would not have accepted new evidence for their review (instead, they would base their decision on the evidence gathered in the Planning Commissions' process). However, another applicable process required them to accept new evidence. To allow for a consolidated review while ensuring that no participant's substantial right is prejudiced, the City and County opted to accept new evidence. The criteria applicable to the applications are very similar, making it nearly impossible to judiciously oversee a process that allowed new evidence only with respect to one of the applications, but not the others. By providing for all of the procedural safeguards for a quasi-judicial evidentiary hearing, the City and County ensured that Goal 1 was satisfied. Statewide Planning Goal 2 To establish a land use planning process and policy framework as a basis for all decisions and actions related to the use of land and to assure an adequate factual base for such decisions and actions. The Eugene-Springfield Metropolitan Area General Plan (Metro Plan) is the policy tool that provides a basis for decision-making in this area. The Metro Plan was acknowledged by the State in 1982 to be in compliance with statewide planning goals. These findings and record show that there is an adequate factual base for City's decision concerning the proposed amendments. Goal 2 requires that plans be coordinated with the plans of affected governmental units and that opportunities be provided for review and comment by affected governmental units. To comply with the Goal 2 coordination requirement, the City coordinated the review of these amendments with all affected governmental units. Specifically, notice was mailed to Lane County Transportation Planning, Lane County Flood Management, Lane County Water Quantity/Quality, Santa Clara (neighborhood) Community Organization, Oregon State Parks & Recreation Department, 1000 Friends of Oregon, Oregon State Fish and Wildlife Department, Oregon Department of Transportation/Planning, Division of State Lands/Wetlands, Oregon Department of land Conservation and Development, Lane regional Air Pollution Authority, Eugene (School) District 4J, Lane County Wetlands, Lane County Surveyors, Lane County Farm Exhibit A to Ordinance 20413 - 2