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<br /> <br />ECC <br />UGENE ITY OUNCIL <br />AIS <br />GENDA TEM UMMARY <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />Public Hearing: Delta Sand and Gravel <br />An Ordinance Amending the Eugene-Springfield Metropolitan Area General Plan <br />(Metro Plan) to Revise the Goal 5 Significant Mineral and Aggregate Resources <br />Inventory and Redesignate from “Agriculture” to “Sand & Gravel;” Adopting Savings <br />and Severability Clauses; and Providing an Effective Date <br /> <br /> <br />Meeting Date: December 12, 2006 Agenda Item Number: A <br />Department: Planning and Development Staff Contact: Kurt Yeiter <br />www.eugene-or.gov Contact Telephone Number: 682-8379 <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />ISSUE STATEMENT <br /> <br />Delta Sand and Gravel requests amendments to the Metro Plan, a change in zoning, and two variances to <br />allow an expansion of its aggregate resource extraction business (quarry) onto a property located inside <br />the Metro Plan boundary but immediately outside the Eugene Urban Growth Boundary (UGB), along <br />East Santa Clara waterway north of Hunsaker Lane. Local land use regulations require that both the <br />City of Eugene and Lane County act in concert regarding the Metro Plan amendments. The zone change <br />and variances are the sole purview of Lane County. <br /> <br />This meeting provides a continuation of the joint public hearing for the City Council and Board of <br />County Commissioners that happened on November 1, 2006. At the previous joint meeting, both bodies <br />voted to accept new evidence. The decision is quasi-judicial. Lane County is the lead agency whose <br />staff prepared the record, detailed staff notes, and draft ordinance for this hearing. <br /> <br /> <br />BACKGROUND <br /> <br />Please see the Lane County staff notes from November 1, 2006, attached again to this Agenda Item <br />Summary (AIS) for your convenience, for a description of the application, State rules about the Goal 5 <br />process for reviewing aggregate resources, and the Planning Commissions’ recommendations. This <br />AIS is a supplement for the Eugene City Council. <br /> <br />A complete record compiled during the Planning Commission hearings, plus additional material <br />received since then, has been placed in the Eugene City Council Office. <br /> <br /> <br />RELATED CITY POLICIES <br />The subject property is currently designated by the Metro Plan as Agriculture, not Sand and Gravel. The <br />Metro Plan encourages the use of the Urban Growth Boundary and park lands to separate sand and <br />gravel resources from residential areas. The subject property is separated from urban residential <br />properties on the other side of the UGB only by the East Santa Clara waterway. <br /> L:\CMO\2006 Council Agendas\M061212\S061212A.doc <br /> <br />