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Exhibit A Findings: Digital Sign Code Amendments (City File # CA 20-2) Overview These land use code amendments modify existing sign code standards to allow and regulate digital billboards and digital reader boards. The amendments focus on how best to allow conversion of existing billboards to new digital technology with specific standards for maximum size, message change intervals, brightness, location and separation. The amendments also include digital allowances for institutional uses and gas stations and minor changes to the existing sign code to add clarity. Findings Eugene Code Section 9.8065 requires that the following approval criteria (in bold italics) be applied to a code amendment: (1)The amendment is consistent with applicable statewide planning goals adopted by the Land Conservation and Development Commission. Goal 1 -Citizen Involvement. To develop a citizen involvement program that insures the opportunity for citizens to be involved in all phases of the planning process. The City has acknowledged provisions for community involvement which insure the opportunity for citizens to be involved in all phases of the planning process and set out requirements for such involvement. This code amendment does not amend the City’s citizen involvement program. The process for adopting this amendment complied with Goal 1 because it is consistent with the City’s acknowledged citizen involvement provisions. A Notice of Proposed Amendment was filed with the Oregon Department of Land Conservation and Development on June 15, 2020. A public hearing was held by the Planning Commission on July 28, 2020. A public hearing was held by the City Council on September 21, 2020. Consistent with land use code requirements, the Planning Commission public hearing on the proposal was duly noticed to all neighborhood organizations in Eugene, as well as community groups and individuals who requested notice. In addition, notice of the Planning Commission public hearing was published in the Register Guard, a newspaper of general circulation in the city, on July 6, 2020. Also consistent with land use code requirements, the City Council public hearing on the proposal was duly noticed to all persons who provided oral or written testimony during the planning commission hearing procedure and those who requested notice on September 3, 2020. Information concerning the amendment, including the dates of the public hearings was posted on the City of Eugene website. These processes afford ample opportunity for citizen involvement consistent with Goal 1. Therefore, the ordinance is consistent with Statewide Planning Goal 1. Goal 2 -Land Use Planning. To establish a land use planning process and policy framework as a basis for all decisions and actions related to use of land and to assure an adequate factual basis for such Findings - 1