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Laud intended to meet the need for affordable housing, namely land designated for multiple fancily use, has proven not to be actually and meaningfully available for such housing. Dne main reason that such lands are not in fact available for affordable housing has been that affordable housing been unable to compete with other uses permitted on such lands. A principal competing use is higher•income multiple family housing, which has driven the price of land available for multiple-family housing out of reach, as evidenced by the skyrocketing market values of such lands and by the almost complete lack of affordable multi-family housing construction over the entire life of the area's acknowledged housing plan element. Another competing use is office and commercial development, which has been permitted to occur on major tracts designated for medium and high density use. As noted by the consultant for the current Metro Plan Housing Update, "New office constructi on and housing conversions to office use have consumed many MDR sites in both communities." May 11, 19917 David J. Newton Associates Project Proposal at 2. Examples include the 24 acres on the south side of Country Club Road in Eugene between Delta Highway and Coburg Raad. Twelve acres are designated in the Metro Plan for high density residential and the other twelve are designated for medium density residential use. All 24 acres are now ro osed for redesi anon to commercial in the Metro Plan based PP ~ upon the commercial and office development which has actually taken place. See November,199o, draft of Eugene Commercial Lands Study, page V-~, A third competing use is low-density single-family residential development. A substantial amount, of land designated on the Metro Plan diagram for medium and high-density development has been consumed bysingle-family residential development. The Metro Plan Housing Update will help establish how much of this has taken place and how much more is to be expected. 2,4170 of the projected 5,85 units of needed high density housing during the planning period are unsupported by any land use designation on vacant lands. The Metro Plan simply "assumes that an additional 2,44o new multifamily units will develop within one mile of downtown Eugene due to redevelopment and infill," June 12, 1981, I.CDC Acknowledgment Report, p. 72. Almost no such redevelopment has taken place since 1981, and what little has occurred consists exclusively of high-end housing producing returns high enough to justify the costs of demolition, rehabilitation, site location, and securing the necessary land use designations. Much of the identified needed multifamily land is designated ~ on the Metro Plan only as floating nodes. These are shown "circles or portions thereof, with related commercial Springwaod Plan Amendment Application Applicant's Proposed Findings March 24,1991 Drab Page 1~