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WEST EU~NE PARKWAY Me,FlED PROJECT--C. ONS~S~NCy WiTH THE STAIEWIDE PLANNING GgALS AND TRANSPORTATION PLANNING RULE of Engineers, and U.Si Fish and Wildlife Service; and the Oregon Department of Transportation, Division of State La~ds, Department of Agriculture, and Department of Fish and Wildlife~ As a consequence of these coordination efforts, numerous alternatives were carefully studied for their impacts and viability. The Modified Project is the result of that coordination, reflecting in particular, and accommodating as much as possible, the identified interests of protecting higher value wetlands and threatened and endangered (T&E) plant and animal speciesl2 while meeting regional and storewide transportation and economic development needs and highway design and safety standards. This coordination effort is consistent with and satisfies Goal 2 requirements. The Modified Project also satisfies Goal 2 consistency requirements as it is consistent with acknowledged Lane Count*./and City of Eugene comprehensive plan provisions providing for a four- lane limited access highway extending westerly from Beltline Highway to Highway 126 west of Goble Lane. Consistency with other specific City and County plan provisions is demonstrated at pages 58 through 105 of the Land Use Technical Report, incorporated herein by this reference. Inconsistent provisions associated with the Approved Design will be eliminated through the amendments to the relevant City and Count3, comprehensive plans taken to relocate the alignment as shown for the Modified Project. Those amendments include map changes, alignment descriptions and the goal exceptions described below. An adequate fhctual base supporting the alignment shift from the Approved Desi~ to the Modified Project, including exceptions to Goals 3, 4, 11, and 14, is set out in a variety of documents contained in the record of this matter, including but not limited to the SDEIS, the Land Use TechnicaIReport, the Supplemental Needs Analysis, the Alternatives Memorandum, the Compatibility with Adjacent and Surrounding Land Uses in the WEP Project Area Technical Memorandum (August 1999) ("Compatibility g~emorandum'), the 1999 Oregon Highway Plan, and the Interim Corridor Strategy for Highway 126 West (April, 1998). Testimony from ODOT and its consultant at the public hearings to consider plan amendments modifying the alignment from the Approved Design to the Modified Project also wilt provide additional evidence to support the alignment shift to the Modified Design. A policy choice to construct a four4ane limited a " ccess West Eugene Parkway" was previously made and remains a part of the acknowledged County and Metro area comprehensive plans. The decision to alter the alignment does not affect that ultimate policy choice. For all of these reasons, this plan amendment complies with Goal 2 Part 1. Goa~ 2 Part Il ~[he Goal 2 exceptions standards apply in circumstances where a land use decision would otherwise violate one or more goals. Under Goal 2 and ORS 197.732(1), "A local government may adopt an exception to a goal when: "(c) The following standards are met: "(1) Reasons justify why the state policy embodied in the applicable goals should not apply; "(2) Areas which do not require a new exception cannot reasonably accommodate the use; 12 As used in th~ memorandum, T&E species ~nclude sens~ve specJes and specJes under consideration for listing. As part of f~e C~ of Eugene's current po(icy amendments~ the C~ ~ replacing the term ~threatened and endangered" w~th the term "rare~ in the ~. Th~s is a term that appears in the Oregon Natural Hedtage Program database. The term 'rare" also appears in some of the documents referenced in this memorandum. EXHIBIT C-1 - F)NC)(NGS