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EXHIBIT C EC 9.7735(3): When the city-specific local comprehensive plan also applies, the proposed amendment is consistent with the city-specific local comprehensive plan. The city-specific local comprehensive plan for the City of Eugene is the Envision Eugene Comprehensive Plan. The following policies from the Envision Eugene (EE) Comprehensive Plan provide general support for the amendment to the Metro Plan Diagram: EE Policy 3.15: Adequate Land Supply. Designate an adequate number of sites within the urban growth boundary to accommodate growing local businesses and new targeted industries, especially a diversified manufacturing base that includes advanced manufacturing, food and beverages, wood products manufacturing, regional distribution, trade, and services such as offices, software developers, educational technology, corporate headquarters, and other employment uses. EE Policy 3.18: Multimodal Freight Accessibility. Encourage maximum use of industrial land by businesses that rely on access and adjacency to multimodal (rail, highway, airport) freight infrastructure and services. EE Policy 3.19: Industrial Land Preservation. Protect and retain the West Eugene and Highway 99 Industrial Corridors as industrial land, particularly parcels with access to rail infrastructure. Foster opportunities for a variety of heavy industrial development in existing heavy industrial areas. EE Policy 3.22: West Eugene Employment Areas. Protect industrial areas in west Eugene, while supporting their evolution into diverse places of commerce with a flexible regulatory approach that offers a broad mix of employment and industrial uses, thereby accommodating increased employment densities and services to surrounding neighborhoods. Each of the policies above comes from Economic Development Chapter of the Envision Eugene Comprehensive Plan. The applicant contends that the proposed amendment will diversify the industrial and employment uses permitted on the site, which is supported by Policies 3.19 and 3.22. The proposed amendment also results in the property remaining an industrial designation with access to a private rail spur and thus is supported by Policies 3.18, 3.19, and 3.22. The proposed amendment and concurrent zone change greatly expands the number of permitted industrial and employment uses, while only four uses will no longer be allowed, including: Existing Homeless Shelters, Conditional Explosives Manufacturing, large collection recycling facilities, and scrap and dismantling yard (see EC Table 9.2450 for a complete list of permitted uses in the Employment and Industrial Zones). Based on these facts, the proposed amendment and concurrent zone change are generally supported by the Economic Development policies cited above. The Transportation chapter of Envision Eugene states that the Eugene 2035 Transportation System Plan (TSP) serves as the transportation element for the comprehensive plan. As noted in the findings related to Statewide Planning Goal 12, the Metro Plan Diagram amendment is of Findings Page 10 of 14 MA 20-3 / Z 20-10