Item 3: Ordinance Concerning Jefferson/Far West Plan Amendments

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intemallyinconsistent and as a result the proposed Metro Plan amendment fails to satisfy the criteria in EC9.7730(3)(b). As the proposed Metro Plan Amendment fails to meet any of the Metro Plan Amendment Approval Criteria contaIned in EC 9.7730(3) I recommend that the Planning Commission in its submission to the City Council not recommend the approval of the proposed Refinement Plan Amendment and instead recommend that the matter of inappropriate in-fill be addressed through the development of design standards. Growth Mana.cnnelltPolicies Applicability of the Growth ManagemeutPoHeies On 2 February 1998 The Eugene City Council adopted Resolution No 4554 adopting a set of Growth Management Policies. Section 2 of tllat Resolution reads as follows: The policies adopted by Section 1 shall be used by the City to Guide the work of the City Manager and staff in formulating for Council consideration proposed changes to the Eugene Code, 1971, including changes to Chapters 2 through 9. The policies.adopted by Section one also shall be used by the City to guide other work programs, including such actions as preparation of the budget and revisions to the capital improvement program. (Resolution 4554,' Section 2] As the Eugene Land Use Code is chapter 9 of the Eugene Code, 1971, any change to the Land Use Code is a change to the Eugene Code and thus is subject to the Growth Management Policies adopted by the City Council as Reso lutio 11 4554. Compliance with G'rowth Management Policies The proposed package of legislation is contrary to all 7 of the 19 adopted Growth Management Policies 7 that directly pertain to it. These are Policies 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 10. The specific policies and why- the proposed legislatioll is contrary to thenlare.disc.ussed belo\v. But before I address them there are some general observations about growth that apply to most of theIll; that in the interest of space I ,\iII.address here. R.edu.ced to its most basic form tIle gro\'viIl equation is'"ery simple~ \\Then ever births and immigration exceeds deaths and emigration there is gro\\;th.Currentl.y there is no la,,,rful means by \vhich a local government can control aII)l of the four vari.ables in th.eequati.on. Which means government can not cOlltrol growth it can. only influence 110"V th.e comlIlunity wIn accommodate it. The true question C.o11c,eminggro\vth is l10t "ho\'v much gro\vth?~' bllt ratller "where is thisne\v population going to live, \vorkand dri\re?'~ This proposed legislation by reducing the overall density of Area 15 is displacing growth and any negative impacts it may have to other parts of the community. These areas win have to pick up the slack that this down zoning will create. This means that the impacts of this proposed down zoning extend beyond the boundaries of Are a 16 and the Jefferson Westside Neighborhood. Hinkley Testiolony on i\4A 06-5~ Ita 06...3 andCA 06-1 5 December 2006 Page 8 of 12 pages