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Exhibit D Findings Single Family Land Use Code Amendments Secondary Dwellings, Accessory Buildings and Alley Access Lots (City File CA 13-3) Land Use Code Amendments (CA 13-3) Eugene Code Section 9.8065 requires that the following approval criteria (in bold italics) be applied to a code amendment: (1) The amendment is consistent with applicable statewide planning goals adopted by the Land Conservation and Development Commission. Goal 1 - Citizen Involvement. To develop a citizen involvement program that insures the opportunity for citizens to be involved in all phases of the planning process. The City has acknowledged provisions for citizen involvement which insure the opportunity for citizens to be involved in all phases of the planning process and set out requirements for such involvement. The amendments do not amend the citizen involvement program. The process for adopting these amendments complied with Goal 1 because it is consistent with the citizen involvement provisions. The early concepts for these amendments emerged out of the city's Infill Compatibility Standards (ICS) project (beginning in 2007), which was led by a task team that included 14 neighborhood association representatives, a Housing Policy Board representative, and five additional members with the perspectives of builders, developers, and designers of market -rate and affordable infill housing. The initial code concepts were largely influenced by the previous work of the ICS project, specifically the Single -Family Dwelling Subcommittee and R-1 Infill/Flag Lot Implementation Team (RIFLIT), as well as the Neighborhood Livability Working Group, best practices from other cities, and a review of Eugene land use code. Once drafted, the code concepts were reviewed and vetted by an external advisory group comprised of neighborhood advocates, designers and builders with expertise in single family housing, and two Planning Commissioners. The majority of the members of the advisory group were also part of the original ICS/RIFLT team. Prior to the start of the formal adoption process, the code concepts were sent out for broad public feedback to over 120 individuals that are interested in the topic or involved in a group or profession associated with neighborhood livability and infill, including neighborhood leaders and advocates, property owners, architects, designers and developers, Infill Compatibility Standards Task Team, and the Home Builder's Association. Other engagement and information opportunities included an open house in June 2013, highlighting the project in the May edition of the Envision Eugene e -newsletter, an open invitation to neighborhood leaders and other interested parties to meet about the amendments, and the establishment of a project web page. Findings - 1