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Overall, the Eugene-Springfield area is comparatively well-supplied with industrial land. The ~1arch, 1991, Draft ?\1etro Area Industrial Lands Study provides the following figures, based upon a detailed review of all industrially-designated sites within the regional growth boundary: Short-term supply: Short-term demand: Long-term demand: Gross supply: Buildable supply: Constraint free: 1,947 acres 228 to 410 acres 650 to 1, 170 acres 4,039 acres 3,604 acres I ,688 acres However, a much more detailed and in-depth study of th.e site's absolute and relative potential for industrial development \,\'as conducted for the City of Springfield in 1990 as part of the EDA Study. This study concludes that the site would require major off-site improvements, at a cost of $2,000,000, raising overall development costs to approximately $3,600,000, or over $100,000 per acre. The principal need is for an access road to Interstate Connector 1-105, 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 less cost in infrastructure improvements. The study recommends that the southern end of the site be developed commercially, as is proposed by the applicant. 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 Ifis estimated to be 650 . acres. 11 A less-likely scenario projects a long-term demand of 1, 172 acres. Springfield has half of the 48 100-percent constraint-free, short term sites. West Eugene and West Springfield, which'includes the Burkland site, have the best supplies of "constraint-free industrial sites that are presently within a city and [are] well-served w~th improvements. II West Springfield has 627 industrial acres, with the "fewest potential constraints and the most constraint-free sites (20) of all regions and it is generally well-served by public improvements. U West Springfield's current short-term supply exceeds the 1Imost likely" long-term delJ1and for the entire Metropolitan Urban Growth Area. Projected demand for heavy industrial land is not anticipated in the study. 6