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EUGENE CITY COUNCIL AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY Work Session: Process for Review and Update of Goal 5 Inventory in the South Hills Meeting Date: June 27, 2005 Agenda Item Number: C Department: Planning and Development Staff Contact: Susan Muir www. cl. eugene, or. us Contact Telephone Number: 682-6077 ISSUE STATEMENT The purpose of this work session is to follow up on the motion passed by the council on June 8, 2005, regarding the Statewide Planning Goal 5 Inventory in the South Hills. BACKGROUND On July 28, 2003, the council adopted Ordinance #20296, which adopted Eugene's Goal 5 Inventory of Riparian and Upland Wildlife Habitat Sites. Adoption of that ordinance allowed the City to move forward and propose protection measures for the resources included on the inventory. Those measures are currently before the Eugene Planning Commission for consideration and are scheduled to be before the City Council in the fall. On June 8, 2005, the council passed a motion directing the City Manager to review and update the Goal 5 inventory in the South Hills, to respond to information about the presence of the pileated woodpecker in that area. For additional technical information about Goal 5 "safe harbor" provisions, the inventory adoption process in 2003, the pileated woodpecker and the status of the inventory information for the South Hills, please see the attached memo from staff dated June 20, 2005. The Goal 5 Periodic Review Work Task currently has a state mandated deadline for completion of June 30, 2005. This deadline was an extension from an earlier deadline and there are no other avenues for additional extensions. Prior to June 8, 2005, the City notified the Department of Land Conservation and Development that the project would not be completed by June 30, 2005, but that it would be completed as soon as possible and has presented the tentative timeline that kept the City close to the mandated schedule. City staff believes there was an informal good faith understanding with the State that staff was continuing to move the project forward, was working hard towards keeping the timeline, and was keeping the State plugged into the process and timeline to avoid problems. The State has authority to schedule the City of Eugene in front of the Land Conservation and Development Commission (LCDC) after June 30, 2005, and ask for a progress report and could consider other actions. Staff has not asked the State to respond to the June 8, 2005, motion in writing, but has asked them to be available for the June 27, 2005, work session. The Eugene Planning Commission is expected to complete its work on Goal 5 by early July 2005, and a work session and public hearing before the council are scheduled in September 2005. This means that, after approximately ten years of work on this Periodic Review task, the current Goal 5 process can be completed within 4 to 5 months. L:\CMO\2005 Council Agendas\M050627\S050627C.doc