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Constraint free: 1,688 acres In testimony before the joint planning commissions, counsel for one of the opponents, the Neste company, stated that he had served on the Industrial Lands Study Task Force and that "not one acre" of the region's industrial land inventory. could be spared. In addition, the study identifies the Burkland site as one of the available "short-term" industrial sites because of its size, central location, and availability of services. However, a much more detailed and in-depth study of the site's absolute and relative potential for. industrial development was was conducted for the City of Springfield in 199D as part of the EDA Study. This study concludes that the site would require ma'or off-site J improvements, at a cost of $2,a0o,Da0, raising overall development costs to approximately $3,600,000, or over $ Ioa,a00 per acre. The principal need is for an access road to Interstate Connector I-105, access which a number of otherwise comparable sites in the region already have. The study notes that the city's resources for infrastructure are limited and recommends that it concentrate them on its one or two best sites, which do not include the Burkland site. Even. with such improvements, the study finds that the property is so configured that it would best be developed in phases, eliminating its value as a single large, site. The study finds that the neighboring Giustina site, across Main Street to the South, is similar. in many ways, as a large site in single ownership in the same location, but that it can be developed at far Tess cost in infrastructure improvements. The study recommends that the southern end of the site be developed commercially, as is proposed by the applicant. The site has no value as an expansion site because it is separated from neighboring industrial uses on the west by a 1o0-foot-wide railroad right of way occupied by tracks and a berm. The only other adjoining industrial use, to the northwest, is separated from the site by a wooded wetland. The applicant's proposal preserves the only function of value to the existing uses, which is to provide a buffer and transition to residential uses. Both studies foresee no significant future demand for heavy industrial lands. The filled log pond on the site is identified in the EDA study as a problem for industrial development. The applicant's engineer confirms this finding, and points out that, while the bearing capacity of the filled panel is insufficient for most industrial development, 'Zn contrast, the proposed ~housing~ development employs premanufactured units which require cower soli bearing capacities. ~In addition,] the percent of coverage of structures that would require removal of the soil mass is far less than that associated with industrial developments." The draft industrial Lands Study also finds that the most likely" projected long-term demand for industrial land throughout the entire Metropolitan Urban Growth Area "is estimated to be 6Sa acres." Aless-likely scenario projects along-term demand of 1,172 acres. 5 Springfield has half of the 4S 100-percent constraint-free, short term sites.-west Eugene and 'Nest Springfield, which includes the Burkland site, have the best supplies of Springwood Plan Amendment Application Applicant's Proposed Findings March Z0, 1991 Drab Psge b