Item 5: Ordinance Amending Metro Plan and Refinement Plan - Huntington Crossing

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zone change to R-2, this zoning would allow residential development at densities from 10 to 28 dwelling units per acre. The subject property is approximately 6.89 acres in area, which would allow 68 to 193 dwelling units. Requirements for parking, landscaping, and multi-family development standards would be applicable to the development proposal. Provide a limitation for the subject property to allow medium density residential use only: 7. Council asked whether there is a way to assure that only medium density residential use would be allowed, presumably to prohibit the ability to do commercial uses in a future development proposal. Staff response: The current proposal is for a Metro Plan diagram amendment, with consistent changes to refinement plan maps. In rare circumstances, applicants have limited such requests to allow for only specific uses, and provided findings that only support those limited uses. In a few of those cases, the City has considered the imposition of property-specific limitations on allowed uses. In this case, the Planning Commission found that the applicant’s analysis is sufficient to support the proposed re- designation and map changes without use restrictions. In cases where a use restriction is warranted, staff recommends that the use limitation be adopted as a text amendment to the applicable refinement plan to best ensure future notice and enforcement of such a limitation. Staff has some concern that a use limitation for the subject property that would prohibit a retail/commercial use in conjunction with a residential PUD may be inconsistent with other policies in the Coburg/Crescent Subarea of the Willakenzie Area Plan. Such existing policies encourage mixed use developments, including some commercial use within a residential PUD. If the council wishes to pursue a text amendment to the refinement plan, additional staff time will be needed to develop a proposal. Why should this request be considered when people didn’t have an opportunity before to change 8. the designation: The Board of Commissioners asked why they should be compelled to approve this Metro Plan amendment request when changing the designation wasn’t available to residents before. Staff Response: This Metro Plan amendment is being requested by a private property owner as a citizen initiated request. Staff notes that the code does provide for any citizen to initiate a Metro Plan amendment request at any time as per EC 9.9.7715(2)(b). Additional Information For additional information, please contact Lydia McKinney Associate Planner, at 682-5485 or via email at lydia.s.mckinney@ci.eugene.or.us.