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Exhibit A similar to and a part of the adjoining Whilamut natural area. This right-of-way was not intended to promote Willamette Greenway objectives in as much as it preceded the Willamette Greenway Goal by 20 or more years. The Whilamut natural area is point on consistent with the Greenway values intended to be protected by the Greenway Goal. The relationship of the right-of-way, the proposed bridge, the Whilamut natural area and the Greenway values is now, and will remain, a matter of constantly balancing two exclusive purpose uses of significant contrast. It is no wonder an exception is necessary. What will make these circumstances tolerable is the successful effort made by ODO% Willamalane and the City of Springfield to execute conditions of approval imposed by the Springfield Pl~ng Commission in its decision to approve a Discretionary Use to allow an intensification of use within the Willamette River Greenway (detour bridge)~ Those conditions include the following: 1) The staffs of ODOT, City of Springfield and Willamalane will jointly prepare a construction management plan that will address, at a minimum, ingress and egress to the site; hours of operation; noise, dust vibration and lighting; run-off and hydrology; and bicycle and pedestrian safety in the construction area. 2) ODOT, City of Springfield, Willamalane and other appropriate state and ~kderal agencies will jointly prepare a habitat protection plan that will mitigate any identified adverse impacts to the Whilamut natural area caused during and after bridge construction. 3) ODOT, City of Springfield and Willamalane staff will jointly prepare a restoration plan for the area knpacted by the temporary bridge, including a "return to equal or better than" cmn:ent condition as a baseline; elimination of invasives; plant salvage; and a monitoring schedule to assess on-going success. A member of the Citizens Planning Committee wilt be asked to participate in these efforts in an advisory capacity. These conditions are intended to mitigate adverse effects; protect as much of this resource as possible during construction; and restore as much of this resource as possible after construction and deconstruction of the detour bridge. The Whilamut natural area has been included in park plans since the adoption of the 1973 Alton Baker Park Land Use Plan~ ~ts successor, the 1986 Alton Baker Park Master Plan, and the current operational plan, the 1995 East Alton Baker Park Plan. Each iteration of these planning efforts designated Whilamut as a natural habitat site of combined riparian and upland wildhfe values. During the preparation of the Natural Resources Special Study in the late 1980's~ a draft inventory was prepared of metropolitan area resource sites based on wildlife habkat values. The Whilamut, then known as the East Gate Woodlands, received the highest score in the metro area. The City's current Goal 5 preliminary inventory categorizes the WTrfilamut with the same high value as preceding studies and evaluations. While the City's inventory has not yet been officially adopted as required by Goal 5, there is littte doubt that the Whitamut will be considered anything less than the highly valuable resource ~t embodies. Ctearly, the co~mection between the purpose of Goal 5 and the purpose of the Greenway values are mutually supportive and in many instances overlap. This commonality is