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EXHIBIT C Findings Background: Slocum Drive and Songbird Loop are unimproved rights-of-way. The total requested vacation area consists of 25,288 square feet of public right-of-way, comprised of Slocum Drive (16,438 square feet) and Songbird Loop (8,850 square feet). The request also includes vacation of a 7- foot wide public utility easement that abuts the north side of Slocum Drive and the west side of Songbird Loop. Both rights-of-way and the public utility easement were dedicated as part of a plat through a partition (City File: M 00-3). The Slocum Drive right-of-way abuts Tax Lot 100 of Assessor’s Map 18-04-04-12 owned by Asgar R. Sadri L.T. and Tax Lot 200 of Assessor’s Map 18-04-04-12 owned by Crown Pointe Village of Eugene, LLC. The Songbird Loop right-of-way abuts Tax Lot 200 of Assessor’s Map 18-04-04-12 and Tax Lot 603 of Assessor’s Map 17-04-33-40, both of which are owned by Crown Pointe Village of Eugene, LLC. The public utility easement is located entirely within Tax Lot 200 of Assessor’s Map 18- 04-04-12. The vacation request process serves as a means to evaluate the need for public ways as land develops and uses change over time, and to address the manner in which the City may dispense with public ways. This request for vacation is being considered in accordance with Sections 9.8700 – 9.8725 of the Eugene Code (EC) and Oregon Revised Statutes (ORS) 271.080 – 271.230 and processed pursuant to EC 9.7445 – 9.7455. The public hearing is being conducted consistent with quasi-judicial procedures in State law and as set forth in EC9.7065 – 9.7095. When rights-of-way are vacated, ORS 271.140 generally requires ownership of the land underlying the vacated right-of-way to revert back to owners of the adjacent lands from which it was originally dedicated. If the vacation is approved, the rights-of-ways will revert to private ownership of Asgar R. Sadri L.T. and Crowne Point Village of Eugene, LLC. EC 9.8710(5) requires the applicant to pay a special assessment to the City equal to the assessed value of the real property and any costs incurred by the City in the construction of public improvements. The applicant has paid the required assessment. In accordance with ORS 271.080, the applicant has provided evidence of consent to the vacation from owners of at least two-thirds of the property within the affected area. In this case, the affected area per State law is the land lying on either side of the vacated area to the next lateral street, and 400 feet beyond each terminus of the rights-of-way to be vacated. Based on the signed consent forms submitted with the application, the applicant has obtained consent for the proposed vacation from the property owners of approximately 89 percent of the affected area for Slocum Drive and 100 percent for Songbird Loop, which exceeds the requirements of ORS 271.080 and EC 9.8710. Page 1 of 3