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ATTACHMENT G_ NODAL DEVELOPMENT IMPLEMENTATION -- MID-PROJECT REVIEW Report and Recommendations of the Planning Commission to the City Council April 8, 2003 Introduction Throughout the process leading to the adoption of the updated TransPlan and related amendments to the Metro Plan, the Planning Commission strongly supported nodal development as the key strategy to integrate land use and transportation planning and achieve Eugene's 1998 growth management policies. In our July 19, 1999 comments forwarding highlights of our review of the February 1998 draft TransPlan to the City Council, we expressed that support to the Council, along with our concern about timely implementation of nodal development. We saw adoption of the nodal development policy and principles in the draft TransPlan and related Metro Plan amendments as a significant step in furthering Eugene growth management policy 10, "Encourage the creation of transportation-efficient land use patterns and implementation of nodal development concepts." We also recognized that mixed-use, pedestrian-friendly development was still viewed as a new concept to many in our area and supported efforts and incentives to overcome real or perceived barriers to nodal development, including market skepticism. At that time, we were looking to the nodal development pilot projects to better define, in a highly visual way, the nodal concept and to develop new zoning tools to address the regulatory barriers. Much has happened since 1999. The draft TransPlan went through a lengthy review process prior to its adoption in the fall of 2001 and an additional policy was added at the request of the Department of Land Conservation and Development to provide direction on the timing of nodal development implementation. That policy, TransPlan Land Use Policy #5, calls for application of the ND Nodal Development Metro Plan designation and for adoption and application of measures to protect designated nodes from incompatible development to selected areas within three years of TransPlan. In adopting Commission Order 01-LCDC-024 approving the TransPlan alternative performance measures, the Land Conservation and Development Commission recommended that this work be completed within two years of TransPlan adoption, by the fall of 2003. A new overlay zone, the/ND Nodal Development Overlay zone, was prepared to serve as the interim zoning measure to protect the designated nodes from incompatible development and was adopted by City Council as part of the updated Land Use Code. This overlay zone was readopted when the majority of the Land Use Code was readopted, with amendments, in May 2002, effective June 1, 2002. In support of Eugene's nodal development implementation effort, the City was awarded a grant from the Transportation and Growth Management (TGM) program for the 2001-2003 biennium for the Metro Plan amendment/overlay zone project. The Planning Commission recommended