Item 3: PH on Ordinance Regarding State Motor Pool Metro Plan Amendment and Zone Change

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- Patricia Thomas,- AlA June' 8, 2006 Page 2. co~munity life. Goal findings were made on all applicable . Statewide- Goals and 'the Downtown Plan, including the specific policies that called for ,redesign'ation of particular'parcels c~nsistent with the · ,Statewide Goals. The issue now- is only the mechanic~ of change in the. diagram to. comply with what .the adopters of the refinement plan found t6 be consistent with the 'Statewide Goals. If there was to be a challenge to the,appropriatenes's' of,those designations called for in ,the new DowntoWn Plan; it could'only be timely made when the refinement plan was a,dopted. My point in stressing the fact that the refinement plan adopted addresses the entire plan 'area, so that analysis for individual sites is not appropriate, is borne out by many' of the findings adopted with the Downtown Plan. An example i,s GoallO-Housing. The findings 'state . that: ' "The Downtown Plan specifically encourages a variety of , housing and home ownership opportunities in the downtown core and: qn the edg~s, of the Downtown 'Plan area., T~e ,Pl~n supports the strategjc. use of financial tools to assist housing ,development, in these loc'ations., The Plan does not reduce or increase the supply of residel)tialland. Therefore, the refinement 'plan adoption is consistent with Statewide GoalIO." The Downtown Plan, taking a ,broader perspective, finds. that the Plan, a~ a whole, does encourage a yariety- of hO'Qsing and.ho.me ownership .... in the downtown area. Of co~rse., a part of that is th'e provision. for utilization of tinderutilized sites for commerci~ .purposes in. order to revitalize downtown ~d serve downtown hoti~~ng. An a.rp.endment to a refinement plan that, is part of a local , government's compr~hensive plan, as is the Downtown Plan relative to the Metro Plan, isa cQmprehensive plan amendment. See Graville' , ProlJerties. Ltd. v. City of'Eugene, 2'( Or LU~A 583 (1994). In the Graville Gase, the applicant sought an amendment to the Bethel- Danebo Refinement Plan based upon identification of a ~ommercia1 node in the Co~mercial Lands Study. The applicant had sought to , , increase the amount ,of commercial land in the node from 5 to 15 acres and .to amend the text of the Refinement Plan to state that the ; commercial development of the 15 acres should be at. an intensity or , level consistent with the Community Commercial zone.