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Exhibit A Findings of Consistency of Royal Nodal Development Amendments with Criteria for Approval of Amendments to the Eugene Code The Eugene City Council will apply the folio-wing criteria from EC 9.8065 to the proposed code arnendment: (1) Is with applicable statewide planning goals adopted by the Land Conservation and Development Commissiom Goal ] * Citizen Involvement To develop a citizen involvement program that insures the opportunit/y for citizens to be involved in all phases of the planning process. The Eugene Ckizen Involvement Committee reviewed and approved a citizen involvement program and ~nterested parties list fbr the project. The citizen involvement program proposed ~br the project was fully executed. Consideration of the Royal Node provisions began with a joint public hearing on July 11, 2000. Department of Land Conservation and Development notice, notice to property owners and interested parties and newspaper publication was provided for that hearing. Between June and November 2000, the Eugene Planning Commission held four work sessions and the Lane County Planning Commission held one work session. With a revised proposal for the node, notification of a joint Planning Commission work session and hearing on the project was mailed to the interested parties list on February 1, 2002; that mailing list contained more than 250 names. Notification of the joint City Council / Board of County Commissioners hearing on the project was mailed to the interested parties list and published in the Register-Guard on August 28, 2002. Staff presented information on the project to numerous neighborhood and special interest groups throughout the course of this project. Therefore, the amendments are consistent with Goal 1. Goal 2 - Land Use Planning. 7'0 establish a land use planning process and poticy framework as a basis Jbr all decisions and actions related to use of land and to assure an adequate fdctual basis for such decisions and actions The Eugene-Springfield Metropolitan Area General Plan (Metro Plan) is the policy tool that provides a basis for decision-making in this area. The Metro Plan was acknovdedged by the State in 1982 to be in compliance with statew4de planning goals. These findings and record show that there is an adequate factual base for the measures to establish the Royal Avenue Node. To comply with the Goal 2 coordination requirement, the City coordinated the adoption of the ordinances with Lane County, the Oregon Department of Land Conservation and Development, the Oregon Deparm~ent of Transportation, the Oregon Division of State Lands, the US Army Corps of Engineers, Bethel School District 52, the US Department of the Interior - Bureau of Land Management, the US Department of Commerce ~ National Marine Fisheries Service, the Oregon Department of Exhibit A - 1