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The City of Eugene has adopted and applied the/ND Nodal Development overlay zone to protect the Crescent Avenue node from incompatible development. The amendments will increase the diversity of uses and employment opportunities that may occur within the Crescent Avenue node. Medical clinics are a compatible use within a transit oriented developments Under the state TPR, a locM government must provide a form ofmit, igation described in OAR 012-0060(1) when the local government adopts amendments to land use regulations which significantly affect a transportation facility. A land use regulation amendment "significantly affects a transportation facility" if it meets one of the following four factors: (a) Changes the functional classification of an existing or planned transportation ~/?~cility; The proposed ordinance does not change the functional classification of a~ny transportation facility. (b) Changes standards implementing a functional classification system; The proposed ordinance does not change the standards for implementing a functional classification system. (c) Allows types or levels of uses which would result in levels of travel or access which are inconsistent with the functional classification of a transportation facility; The proposed ordinance does not allow t)~es or levels of uses which would result in levels of travel or access which are inconsistent with the functional classification ora transportation facility. The amendments undo an action taken by the City in 1992 that prohibited the establishment of a clinic on a specific commercial development site inthe Coburg/Crescent area of Eugene. Prior to the adoption of the Willakenzie Area Plan in September 1992, the subject property was plarmed and zoned Campus Industrial. During adoption of the Willakenzie Area Plan, the land use designation of the suni ect property"was changed to Neighborhood Commercial with a specific policy prohibiting chnics on the site. The prohibition on clinics had nothing to do with traffic impacts. In October I992, the zoning of the site was changed from 1-1 Campus Industrial to C~I Neighborhood Commercial consistent with the Willake:nzie Area Plan~ Since that time, the site has maintained its Neighborhood Commemial zoning, allowing it to establish any other use allowed in the zone by the City's acknowledged code and plans. The clinic use is no more traffic-intensive than_ many other uses allowed on the site by the code and plans, such as a restaurant and the policy reasons that supported the prohibitions no longer exist. The removal of the clinic prohibition does not result in levets of travel of access which are inconsistent with the functional classification ora transportation facility. Further, the City's code requires 'that traffic impacts of any development proposal under this ordinance that would otherwise have a significant affect on transportation facility must be mitigated as part of the development's approval. The City of Eugene's Traffic Impact Analysis Review Exhibit A - Page 5