Item A: Public Hearing onMetro Plan Amendment (Delta Sand and Gravel)

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(B) Potential conflicts to ~oca~ roads used for .access and egress. to the ~;ning sile within one mile of the entrance to the mining site. unless a veater' distance is necessary in. order to include the intersection with the nearest, ar/~r;al identified in the local J transportation plan. .- Conflicts' shall be . determined ba~ed one/ear Qnd . objective standards regarding sight di$tances~ road capacity, cross section elements, h~rizontal a~d vertical alignment,. and similar items in the. transportation' plan . and . implementing ordinances. Such' ~tandardsfor trucks 'associated with the mining operation shall be . . .equivalent to s.tandards 'for olher trucks of equivalent 'size, weight,. and capacity that .~aul other ~~~. ' . The .applicant requested a. waiver' of the analysis of potential' traffic conflicts due to. ,the pr~posed project under.La, Cod, IS.697 (1): A.. traffic impact analysis may be 'required as part of a complete l,!nd use applicaiion for any' of the followin~: . (c) any pia" amendment proposal unless wdived by the County Engineer as specified below,. LC i 5:697 (2) The County Engineer or desipee may' waive traffic impa~t analysis requirement s~ecified above when: . . . . . (b) In the case of a plan amendment or zo~e change, the. seale and size of the proposal is . insignific411t,. eliminating the needfor detailed trafflc alUJlysis of the ieiformance of . roadway facilities for the 20-year planning. horizon. Whe~her the .s~ale' and size of a proPosal may be considered insignificant may depend on the existing level:' of service on affected roadways. Ge1ierally, a waiver to traffic irnpqct analy~is will be approved when:. (I) .the plan designation.l!r zoning that resu~13 will be entirely a resource designation. , . , , See FOe Record ~o.' 42, EDlblt 30. fo~ the County Engineer, waiver of the requiremeDt for a . iraffic imPact 8nalysis under LC 15.697(2). The. County agreed with the aipplicants analysis that the scale ~d size of the proposed e~tion rate in'the.Cxpansion area does 'not wanmt . detailed traffic analysis of roadway' performance. This Waiva- releases ~ applicai1t ~ the .' requirement to coriduct further traffic inipact analysis. See E~blt 4S for Land Watch lett~ '. . ~erting this ~ysis.must be completed. . Both ~__DDiq 'CoDllllissioDS eolllidered the tram~' eonftiet aDalysls waiver aDd public works response, aDd botla voted 8.ulmouslythat there Is DO eonftiet d.~ to .tramc aDder the Goal 5 Rule. , (C). Safety co1fflicts wit~ existing public airports due to bird attractants, i.e., open wa~er' impoundme,nts as apeclfted under OAR Chapter 660, DiviSion 013,. . . . , Not 8pp~~ble to this PAPA.' , . (D) Conflicts with other Goal 5' resource . sites ~thin the impact area that are shown on.. an :aClcnowledged lilt of aigniftcant resources and for which the. .requiremen~ 'of' Goal j have been completed at the time the P.AP A' " initiated,. . There are two wetlands id~ed on the site, a pond and a Willamette River remnant oxbow. The pond is. an-old quatty pi~ ~ted .by gravel extraction prior to 1977, and it is identifi~ on the Division of State Lands (DSL) , Wetlan4 Inventory aild the Lane' County Metro. Plan Goal 5 Inventory. ',Safe Harbor provisioiis applicable to the pond were adopted 'by Lane County for. Goal S ReSources outside the UGB and within .the Metro Plan Boundary though Ordinance No. 1197 in 2~4. The.oxbo~.remnant is also on the DSL Wetland ID.ventory, and the.Eugene.Goal. 5 Wetiands Inventory. It is identified as Site E-57,. a segment of the :asst Santa Clara Waterway. . The Eugene Goal 5 J,lventory has been adopted by the Board of Commissioners, however, the "res~urce protection measures .for City of Eugene siteS withiti the UGB has not yet been'CO- '. adopted by the' Board. , . . /' . , BoardICo\1llCil Hearing.-'Ordinatice No. PA:1238 '. . Agenda Cover Menio ~1ta ~and & Gravel BxpIDsion '