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This approach would require notification of affected property owners and a public hearing before the Planning Commission prior to coming back to the council if additional areas are added to the inventory. This option would include developing a work plan and budget to complete this work. This option does not provide the most defensible mechanism for adding areas to the inventory (see discussion under Option 1) and it does not give information to address other habitat types or species that are found in the South Hills (see attached memo). Option 3 - Direct the City Manager to add to the Goal 5 Inventory, after completion of the current Goal 5 work program, the remainder of the wildlife habitat areas in the South Hills that were proposed to be included in the inventory by the Planning Commission in 2003. Description: This option would involve amending the June 8, 2005, motion to direct the City Manager to complete the current Goal 5 process, and upon its completion, to apply the standard process (instead of the safe harbor process) significance criteria to all upland wildlife habitat areas that were removed from the inventory, and to complete the Goal 5 process for these areas. This approach would require notification of affected property owners and a public hearing before the Planning Commission prior to coming back to the council. To collect site data that will provide a more defensible basis for Goal 5 recommendations, this option includes additional inventory work. This option would include developing a work plan and budget to complete this work, including: · Updating mapping of upland habitat in the South Hills in the areas being added to the Goal 5 inventory using the City's revised stream mapping, 2004 color aerial photography and field verification. · Conducting new inventory work delineating key habitat areas for the pileated woodpecker in the South Hills. · Conducting inventory and mapping of distinct upland wildlife habitats, including native upland prairie, oak woodland, oak savanna, mature/old growth grand fir, old growth Douglas fir and Ponderosa pine stands. · Conducting an inventory of known rare plant sites and potential rare plant habitat within all sites being added to the Goal 5 inventory (Aster vialis, Cimicifuga elata, Aster curtus, Erigeron decumbens var. decumbens, Horkelia congesta var. congesta, Lupinus sulphureus ssp. Kincaidii). · Providing public notice (direct mailings, display ads and legal ads) and public involvement (public workshops) related to the areas proposed to be added to the Goal 5 inventory. Option 4 - Amend the June 8, 2005, motion to add to the Goal 5 Inventory, after completion of the current Goal 5 work program, the remainder of the wildlife habitat areas that were proposed to be included in the inventory by the Planning Commission in 2003, within the Eugene Urban Growth Boundary. · Description: This option would involve amending the June 8, 2005, motion to direct the City Manager to complete the current Goal 5 process, and upon its completion, to apply the standard process (instead of the safe harbor process) significance criteria to all of the upland wildlife habitat areas that were removed from the inventory (not just those in the South Hills), and to complete the Goal 5 process for these areas. This approach would require notification of affected property owners and a public hearing before the Planning Commission prior to coming back to the council. To collect site data that will provide a L:\CMO\2005 Council Agendas\M050627\S050627C.doc