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Exhibit A Staff Report and Findings of Compliance with the Metro Ptan and Statewide Goals and Administrative Rules File LRP 2003-0012 Metro Plan Amendment and Reasons Exception to Statewide Goal 15- Willamette River Green-way Applicant: Oregon Department of Transportation Nature of the Application: The applicant proposes to construct a temporary detour bridge to provide an alternative route for I-5 traffic while the existing I-5 Willamette River Bridge is replaced. The bridge will transition from the I-5 roadway approximately 1,800 feet south of Centennial Boulevard, parallel the existing bridge over the Willamette and Franklin Boulevard, and re-merge with the I-5 roadway just south of the northbound Franklin Boulevard off-ramp. About 1,600 feet of this bridge will be within the Willamette River Greenway. The detour bridge will be supported by poured-in-place concrete columns and compacted fill that will be located within the Willamette River Greenway Setback Area. Metro Plan pohcy and Oregon Administrative Rules requires a goal exception for such a proposal to proceed. By Rute~ a goal exception must be included within the comprehensive plan; hence a Metro Plan amendment is also required. The staff recommends an amendment to the Metro Plan Text by adding the following paragraph to Policy #13, Chapter III, Section D. 'An exception to Statewide Planning Goal 15 Willamette River Greenway was approved fbr Oregon Department qf Transportation (ODOT) [-5 right of way crossing the ~llamette River and within the Willamette River Greenway Setback Line, for purpose of constructing a temporary detour bridge, implementing the conditions imposed on the Discretiona? Use A~proval (Springfield Journal SHR 2003-001 J 5) and removing the temporary detour bridge after completion of the permanent replacement bridge. This exception satisfies the criteria of Oregon Administrative Rule (OAR) 660-004-0022(5) I;?illamette Greenway; the exception requirements of OAR 660-004-0020 Goal 2, Part II(c) for a "reasons" exception; and pursuant to O.4R 660-004-0015, is hereby adopted as an amendment to the Metro Plan text, Policy #13, Chapter III, Section D.' The applicant also seeks an exception to Statewide Goal 15 - Willamette River Greenway, to allow the construction of a temporary detour bridge within the Willamette River Greenway Setback Area. By Oregon Administrative Rule, only water-dependent and water-related uses are permitted within the Setback At'ea. This bridge does not meet the definition of water-dependent or water-related uses found in the Statewide Goals therefore an exception is required before this bridge may be authorized. Also by Rule, the approval of an exception requires the local government to adopt as part of its