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ORDINANCE NO. 20585 AN ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING THE SUFFICIENCY OF THE EUGENE URBAN GROWTH BOUNDARY FOR PURPOSES OF RESIDENTIAL LAND NEEDS BY MAKING A TEXT AMENDMENT TO THE EUGENE -SPRINGFIELD METROPOLITAN AREA GENERAL PLAN; AMENDING TEXT AND ADOPTING AN APPENDIX TO THE ENVISION EUGENE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN; AND AMENDING SECTIONS 9.2750 AND 9.2751 OF THE EUGENE CODE, 1971. The City Council of the City of Eugene finds as follows: A. Historically, the City of Eugene and the City of Springfield had a shared urban growth boundary ("Metropolitan UGB") within which Eugene's jurisdictional area of responsibility was the land on the west side of Interstate 5 and Springfield's jurisdictional area of responsibility was the land on the east side of Interstate 5. B. House Bill 3337, passed by the Oregon State Legislature in 2007 and codified at ORS 197.304, provides: "Notwithstanding an intergovernmental agreement . . . or acknowledged comprehensive plan provisions to the contrary, a city within Lane County that has a population of 50,000 or more within its boundaries shall, separately from any other city: (a) Establish an urban growth boundary, consistent with the jurisdictional area of responsibility • specified in the acknowledged comprehensive plan; and (b) Demonstrate, as required by ORS 197.296, that its comprehensive plan provides sufficient buildable lands within an urban growth boundary established pursuant to statewide planning goals to accommodate estimated housing needs for 20 years." C. In 2011 the City of Springfield and Lane County took actions that established the Springfield UGB by adopting a division of the Metropolitan UGB along Interstate 5, with the land east of Interstate 5 thereafter included in the "Springfield UGB" and the remainder land on the west of Interstate 5 to be included in an urban growth boundary for Eugene. D. As part of the adoption of ordinances addressing the City of Eugene's need for employment, park and school land, the City of Eugene and Lane County have established the Eugene UGB, including an expansion of the UGB. E. Past studies pertaining to the residential land supply within the, now obsolete, Metropolitan UGB (i.e. the 1999 Supply and Demand Technical Analysis and the 1999 Site Inventory Document) are no longer applicable and new studies pertaining to the Eugene UGB are required by ORS 197.304. NOW THEREFORE, THE CITY OF EUGENE DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. The metropolitan "goals" and "policies" in the Eugene -Springfield Metropolitan Area Plan ("Metro Plan") Residential Land Use and Housing Element will continue 40 to apply in Eugene. However, the "findings" in that Element of the Metro Plan are no longer Ordinance - Page 1 of 4