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WE~T EUGENE P~AY ~D{F(ED PROJECT._CONSl$~N~ ~m TH?~$TATEW{DE PLANN(NG GOALS AND TRANSPORTAT)ON PLANNING RULE Outside the UGB, hhe Approved Design coincides w~th the area for which ~e Coun~ previously approved s~tewide planning goal exceptions to authorize construction of the WEP. In 1986, both the Lane County Board otCommiss~oners and the Eugene C~ Council enacted ordinances authorizing the WER Because the WEP extended outside the region's urban gro~h boundary, Lane County adopted "re~ons' exceptions to Goals 3, 4, and 5 ~n suppo~ of ks action. The exceptions were not challenged and are deemed acknowledged.7 The WEP Approved Design alignment alternative remains an element of both Lane C ' Eugene-~rin~eM ~etropolitan Area General Plan ("Me~o Plan" .~ t oun[y s and the CiW of Eugene's acknowledged comprehensive plans. It is recognized and provided for ~n the . Me~opoIitan Area Tram~ortation Plan ~"~ .... } ,, _ ~ ). he Eugene Sprin~eM [ ~ rar~'rtan ), the Lane Count, Rural Comprehensive Plan, and the West Eugene [Yetland~. Plan ("WEWP')fi all o ' fwhmh have been acknowledged by the Land Conservation and Development Comm~ss[onfi But for the proposed change [n alignment from the Approved Design to the Modified Project, no fu~her review for statew~de planning goal compliance wou Id be required. Review is required only because the Modified PrQect shags the location of the new fac~HW outside the ~ea for which goal exceptions previously were approved, thereby requ~fing plan amendment. The M~ified Prqjec~ l~ke the Approved Des[gn~ is a four-lane limimd access hc~lib,. The wesmrn po~ion of the Modified PrQect co,nc[des with the Approved Design ~om Beltline H~ghway wesVward to a point e~t of Te~ Street, where ~e Modified Project crosses over the Amgen Channel and the Cenml Oregon and Pacific railroad ~acks on a grade-separated crossing, then essentially parallels the ~ac~ along ~eir no~h side to a connection wkh Highway 126 te~inafing approximately 1~300 feet fa~er to the west than the Approved Design (see Figure 1). Unlike the Approved Design, the Modified Project would eliminate the d~mct connection be~een Highway 126 and West 1 lth Avenue~ thereby mduc~ng potential for induced l~d uses on adjacent and he,by rural lands. The standards for t~[ng goal exceptions to authorize a new roadway faciHW of th~s nature on rural lands are set out ~n the TPR at OAR 660-012-0070. Because the comprehensive plans of Lane CounLv and the Ci~~ of Eugene already address the need, function and mode of the WEP~ and because these plans are acknowl~ged, the question ~ses whether the subsections of OAR 660-012-0070 addressing ne~ function and mode even apply to ~ 7 See Lane Coun~ Ordinance Ne PA 9~, adopted Apd123 1986 L; ~Metm. Plan ma ~me~o~P!an Which ~s supplemented BY more detail ~i~} ?an~: ~fi~ ~ns:~.~?ne~egt ~l~n~: Re~nement plans include adOPted the ~ as a refinement Plan to the Metro Plan ~. [u m~ mut¢o ~an. m 1992 Lane county and the Cie of Eugene 9 ~e ~p ~ officiafly ~entified in ~he 1988 TransPlam as Sho~ Range Proje~ ~ 07.