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The 2012 residential land supply analysis informs several questions: • Most significantly, how much residential land is available in 2012 for development within the area of Eugene's current UGB? • Where is that developable residential land located? • What is the distribution of the developable residential land by the comprehensive plan land use designation categories (e.g. low density residential, medium density residential, and high density residential)? The methods used for, and results of, the 2012 residential land supply were reviewed by multiple stakeholder groups, including a citizen advisory committee during the 2008 Eugene Comprehensive Lands Assessment process and the Envision Eugene Technical Resource Group (TRG) during the subsequent Envision Eugene process. z The TRG's work was integral to the Envision Eugene analysis. The TRG included members with local and regional expertise on issues like economic and residential market conditions and development trends, land use conservation, and sustainability, as well as members from other local boards and commissions. The TRG met regularly over the course of five years, volunteering hundreds of hours, to examine the assumptions and methodologies related to all Envision Eugene analysis, including the 2012 land supply, demand projections, capacity analysis and measures to increase development and UGB expansion. Where the TRG's work was particularly significant in the preparation of the 2012 residential land supply, its work is highlighted below. The following describes the data, analysis and results of the 2012 residential land supply. 3. Data & Methods Most of the data files needed to determine the 2012 residential land inventory project are from local government systems, while other data was created or calculated or the result of location (geospatial) based processing. All data files were current as of 2012 where possible. These data layers and mapped features include: Land and administrative boundary data I Land constraints data • Eugene -Springfield Metropolitan Plan (Metro Plan) boundary, for the portion west of Interstate 5 • Plan Designation areas (intended future use of property per the Metro Plan) • Urban growth boundary (UGB) • Land use, existing • Street and other rights-of-way • Floodway • Protected natural resources (per Statewide Planning Goal 5 and federally threatened or endangered species) • Wetland areas terminology between the inventories of residential and employment land. See Envision Eugene / Employment Land Supply Study. z An initial 2008 land supply was prepared by the Lane Council of Governments. City staff and LCOG updated the 2008 work in 2012. Following the full run of the land model in 2012, in May 2013 any vacant land that had an address assigned to it was classified as "developed." Address points are typically assigned to lots when a building permit is applied for and is, therefore, a reasonable proxy for development. Residential Land Supply Study I Final Part I — Page 2