Item C: Update on Commercial/Industrial/Residential Land Studies

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ATTACHMENT A Eugene Buildable Lands Summary Memorandum December 4, 2006 Purpose The following is an overview of options for updating the residential, commercial and industrial lands supply and demand inventories for the City of Eugene, including costs and timeframes. Buildable Lands and Recent Studies Current state law requires that cities inventory residential, commercial, and industrial land within their Urban Growth Boundaries (UGB) and maintain a 20-year supply of buildable lands at the time of adoption. In 1999, the cities of Eugene and Springfield completed the 1999 Residential Land Housing Study (RLS). The findings and policies were incorporated into the 2004 Update to the Metro Plan as the Residential Land Use and Housing Element. The study found that there is an adequate supply of undeveloped (urbanizable) area with the UGB to meet demand for a projected population of 286,000 through the end of the planning period (2015). Policy A.5 of the 2004 Update to the Metro Plan suggests developing a monitoring system that measures land consumption, housing type, size, and density and that these reports be made on an annual basis. The monitoring report should gather data on the total number of acres and units constructed as well as actual density that should be compared with the estimates and assumption used in the RLS. In 2000, Lane Council of Governments and the cities of Eugene and Springfield completed the first Residential Land Monitoring Report for the metro area. Since that time The City of Springfield completed a second monitoring report for the Springfield UGB for 2000-2003. During 2005-2006, Lane Metro Partnership along with Lane County and the cities of Eugene and Springfield funded a project (referred to as the CIBL project) that created a database of commercial and industrial lands within the Eugene-Springfield UGB. The project was not intended to provide a buildable lands inventory. Additional work and analysis would be required to develop a buildable lands inventory consistent with Goal 9 and OAR 660-009. While a recent commercial/industrial land inventory has not been completed for the metro area, the City of Springfield completed a Commercial Lands Study for its UGB that was adopted in February 2000 and is currently undertaking a Residential Lands Inventory.