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Exhibit C Findings of Consistency of Lower River Road Nodal Development Amendments with Metro Plan Amendment and Zone Change Criteria Consistency-with Metro Plan Amendment Cr~jeria: The Eugene City Council and Lane County Board of Commissioners will apply the following criteria from Eugene Code Section 9.7730(3) and Lane Code Section 12.225(2) to the proposed Metro Plan amendment: (a) The amendment must be consistent with the relevant statewide planning goals adopted by file Land Conservation and Development Commission; and (b) Adoption of the an~endment must not make the Metro Plan internally inconsister~t. The amendment must be consistent with the relevant statew4de planning goals adopted by the Land Conservation and Development Comm~ssiom Goal 1 ~ C~t~zen Involvement: To develop a citizen involvement program that insures the opportunityj;br citizens to be involved in all phases Rf the p[anning process. The City has acknowledged provisions fbr citizen involvement which insure the opportunky for citizens to be involved in all phases of the planning process and set out requirements for such involvement~ The action taken did not amend the citizen in~volvement progran~. The process for adopting these amendments complied-with Goal t since it complied with, and surpassed the requiremems of, the citizen involvement provisions. The Metro Plan amendment application is subject to the public notification and hearing processes adopted by the City of Eugene in EC 9.7720 and 9.7735 and by Lane County in Lane Code Section 12.235~ as modified by the Eugene City Council for this Council4nitiated amendment under EC 9.7750(1), and in EC 9.7520. On December 18, 2002, notice of a joint public hearing to be held by the Eugene and Lane C%nty p!~_ning co~issions with maps depicting the proposed amendments was mailed to the Oregon Department of Laid Conservation and Development as requked by ORS 197.610. No comment was received in response to the notice. Notice of the public hearing was mailed on Jarmary 3~ 2003 to property o~ers and occupants, to persons who requested notice and to Eugene r~ighborhood associations. On January 15, 2003, notice was mailed to property o-wners ~4thin 300 ibet of the area and notice was published in the Register-Guard. On February 4, 2003, Eugene and Lane County' planning commissions held a joint public hearing on the proposed amendments and cgmpleted thek recommendations following the public hearing. The Eugene Planning cormnission voted 6:0 to recommend that the Eugene City Council approve the amendments to the Metro Plan diagram and concurrent a:utomatic arnendment to the PAver Road-Santa Clara Urban Facilities Plan land use diagram and Whiteaker Plan land use diagram Exhibit C - 1