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e Study, and the Urbanization Report. He suggested an interpretation on Page 5 of the findings he presented. Only six pages of the South Hills Study were adopted, and, if a conflict exists, the Metro Plan is dominant. The ubanization report intreprets the Metro Plan and requires annexation in south Eugene because services and facilities are available. Copies of the the Urbanization Report Draft were sent to Springfield, Lane County, and the LCDC staff. Jim Forbes, executive director of Looking Glass, asked the council to look at an aerial photograph. He said the Looking Glass program would be detailed at the conditional use permit hearing if the annexation and rezon- ing are approved. Clark Cox, Jr., #9, 1085 Patterson, urged denial of the appeal and said the conditional use permit hearing would indicate whether access, safety, and drainage problems had been resolved. During staff comments, Chief Hall said Tax Lot 700 has no fire protection now. The City can provide protection to it without jepardizing the rest of the city. After annexation, development on the property must meet City standards. Answering questions from councilors, Mr. Hall said fire equip- ment can travel on the existing road into Tax Lot 700. Mr. Croteau said the road that serves Tax Lot 700 is a private driveway and is the road for which the Planning Commission wanted a dedicated easement. Mr. Teitzel said both sanitary and storm sewers are adjacent to Tax Lot 700 e and access can be extended to it. Answering questions from councilors, Mr. Teitzel said the drainage ditches along 43rd Avenue are the type that plug up when an unimproved area drains into them. Most of the water off Tax Lot 700 would be diverted before it got to the ditches along 43rd Avenue. Problems caused by water that comes off land that is in the county cannot be solved by the City. Mr. Sercombe said the annexation and rezoning request would be consistent with the statewide goals if the council found it is consistent with the Metro Plan. When the council adopted the South Hills Plan in 1974, it spe- cifically repealed anything in the study that was inconsistent with the res- olution at the beginning which provides policy guidance. The council could eliminate the recorded access requirement of the Planning Commission's rec- ommendation. The appellants should specify how they were prejudiced by the procedures indicated in their letter to the council. In rebuttal, Mr. Farthing emphasized there is no legal access to Tax Lot 700 and annexation which converts urbanizable land to urban land requires legal access. The appeal statement indicated that 43rd Avenue is not legal access to Tax Lot 700, so it is relevant to the appeal. Presently, the Metro Plan indicates LCDC goals must be considered during the annexation process. ORS 197 752 indicates urban land should be used in accordance with local stan- dards. Local standards do not require annexation of residential land. When the South Hills Study was re-adopted as part of the Metro Plan, no differ- entiation was made between the resolution and the rest of the plan. Even if e the Eugene Council did not intend for all the South Hills Study to MINUTES--Eugene City Council December 10, 1984 Page 7