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amendment heating and the nature of the request be mailed at least 30 days before the planning commission public heating to the Lane County and Springfield planning directors, all rhood groups officially by the city council and community organizations that have submitted written requests for notification. On January 18~ 2002, written notice of the February 20, 2002 joint public heating of the Eugene, Lane County and Springfield planning commissions and the Lane County Roads Advisory Committee (LCRAC) was mailed to a consolidated list of interested parties provided by the Oregon Department of Transportation (West Eugene Parkway list), Lane Council of Governments (TransPlan testimony list) and staff (West Eugene Wetlands Plan agency list and other interested parties). Approxknately 1,5t90 notices were mailed. The Eugene code also requires that a legal ad be published at least 20 days in advance of the public hearing. The legal ad was published in the Eugene Register-Guard on January 30, 2002. In addition, the city has developed a West Eugene Parkway web site. The public heating notice and maps and the staff report were published on the web site. This notification exceeds the requirements of the Eugene Code. The refinement plan amendment process includes two public hearings: the first before the planning commissions and roads advisory committee and the second before the adopting officials. Those who provided their address with their written or oral testimony to the plamfing commissions and LCRAC received written notice of the joint adopting officials public heating. These hearings ample ity for public involvement consistent wSth Goal i. Therefore, these nts to the West Eugene Wetlands Plan comply with Goal 1~ Goal__2;~ Land Use Planning Goal 2, Land Use Plar~rfing includes two parts. Part I, Planning, addresses general planning and coordination requirements; Part II, Exceptions, addresses exceptions to statewSde planning goals. Goal 2 requires that plans be coordinated with the plans of affected governmental un/ts and that ies be provided for review and comment by affected units. The Goal defines "Affected Governmental Units" as'~2tose local governments, state and federal agencies and special districts which have programs, land ownerships~ or responsibilkies within the area included in the plan." To comply with the Goal 2 coordination requirement~ the City coordinated the adoption of these amendments with all affected governmental units. Specifically, notice was ma~led to: Lane County, Springfield and Lane Transit District, which are parties to the decision; the Lane Council of Governments; the following Federal agencies: Federal Highway Administration, Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, U.S. F~sh and Wildlife Service, Environmental Protection Agency, National Marine Fisheries Service, National Park Service, Federal Aviation Admkfistmtion~ and Department of Housing and Urban Development; and the followdng state agencies: Department of Transportafion~ Department of Land Conservation and Development, Division of State Lands, Department of Environmental Quality, Department of Energy, Department of Agriculture and State Historic Preservation Office~ Findings demonstrathag an adequate factual base supporting the shift in West Eugene Parkway from the 1990 Approved Design to the Modified Project and justifying exceptions to Planrfing Goals 3, 4, 11 and 14 are set forth in the following documents provided by West Eugene Wetlands Plan Amendments Exhibit B ~ Fk~dh~gs P~e3