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

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Goal 9 requires that the city ‘[p]rovide for at least an adequate supply of sites of suitable sizes, types, location, and service levels for a variety of industrial and commercial uses consistent with plan policies[.]” OAR 660 Division 9 is LCDC’s Goal 9 administrative rule. Among other things, the rule requires that cities complete an “Economic Opportunities Analysis.” OAR 660-009-0015. Based on the Economic Opportunities Analysis, cities are to prepare Industrial and Commercial Development Policies. OAR 660-009-0020. Finally OAR 660-009-0025 requires that cities designate industrial and commercial lands sufficient to meet short and long term needs. OAR 660- 009-0010(2) provides that the detailed planning requirements imposed by OAR 660 Division 9 apply “at the time of each periodic review of the plan (ORS 197.712(3)).” In addition, OAR 660- 009-0010(4) provides that, when a city changes its plan designations of lands in excess of two acres to or from commercial or industrial use, pursuant to a post acknowledgment plan amendment, it must address all applicable planning requirements and (a) Demonstrate that the proposed amendment is consistent with the parts of its acknowledged comprehensive plan which address the requirements of OAR 660-Division 9; or (b) Amend its comprehensive plan to explain the proposed amendment pursuant to OAR 660 Division 9; or (c) adopt a combination of (a) and (b) consistent with the requirements of Division 9. The applicant proposed a change in plan designation of land in excess of two acres from the Campus-Industrial plan designation. The amendments will decrease the supply of available industrial land by approximately 6.89 acres for the purpose of facilitating a transit-oriented medium-density residential development. The proposed change is consistent with the parts of the Metro Plan that address the requirements of OAR 660 Division 9 (option (a), above). The City’s Industrial Lands Inventory is acknowledged for compliance with the requirements of Goal 9 and its Administrative Rule. Currently, the City of Eugene has a surplus of industrial land. Additionally, as shown in the Metropolitan Industrial Lands Inventory Report (1993) and the Metropolitan Industrial Lands Policy Report, the subject property was not included in the inventory of the Metropolitan Plan Industrial Lands Study (See Industrial Lands Special Study Map, Sites in Subregion #5), so the re-designation from Campus Industrial of this specific parcel of will not affect the formally acknowledged inventory of industrial land. The proposed amendments are consistent with Statewide Planning Goal 9. Goal 10 - Housing: To provide for the housing needs of the citizens of the state. Goal 10 requires that communities plan for and maintain an inventory of buildable residential land for needed housing units. The request to re-designate 6.89 acres from Campus Industrial to Medium Density Residential increases the supply and availability of residential lands. The property affected by the proposed amendments was not included in supply of land available for residential development as inventoried in the acknowledged 1999 Residential Lands Study, so the re- designation will result in an increase in buildable residential lands. Therefore, the amendments are consistent with Statewide Planning Goal 10. Goal 11 - Public Facilities and Services: To plan and develop a timely, orderly and efficient arrangement of public facilities and services to serve as a framework for urban and rural development. The area affected by the amendments is located outside the city limits but inside Eugene’s Urban Growth Boundary. The existing level of public facilities and service is adequate to serve the needs Preliminary Findings – January 16, 2007 Page 4