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Proposals in the plan seek to increase densities in the area thereby making <br />more efficient use of urban land. Minimum density standards for medium and <br />high density residential development area proposed in the plan. The plan <br />contains proposals for mixed-use residential development and for improving <br />the relationship between residential areas and employment areas to allow <br />people to live, work, shop and recreate in the same geographic area. The <br />plan also contains proposals to improve the potential for transit service in <br />urbanizable areas by clustering and concentrating higher density residential <br />and other intensive development. <br />Goal I5 - Willamette River Greenwa <br />This goal directs local governments to protect and enhance the quality of the <br />W~1lamette River by creating the Willamette River Greenway. The Greenway <br />program includes provisions to manage uses within and near the Greenway to <br />maintain desireable qualities of the Greenway. Amendment areas I3 and I4 are <br />within the Willamette River Greenway. The Willakenzie P1 an contains guide- <br />lines for development within the Greenway which satisfy the bse Management <br />Criteria far development within the Greenway. <br />Section 9.1282}fib}: Adoption of the amendment must not make the Metro- <br />politan Plan internally inconsistent. <br />The proposed amendments to the Metro P1 an Diagram implement the Willakenzie <br />Land Use Diagram and policies of the Willakenzie Area Plan. The Willakenzie <br />Plan is consistent with the text of the Metropolitan Area General P1 an. <br />Section 9.1282}~c} The amendment is not a plan update amendment, un- <br />less the amendment has been initiated by the City of Eugene, City of <br />Springfield and Lane County under section 9.1201}~c} of this code. <br />Amendments to the Metro Plan generated by the Willakenzie P1 an are not "plan <br />update amendments' as defined in section 9.~I5 of the Eugene Code. <br />Plan u date amendment. Any change to the Metropolitan P]an which ~I} <br />changes the urban growth boundary ar the jurisdictional boundary of the <br />Plan; 42} requires a goal exception to be taken under statewide planning <br />goal 2; ~3} amends a fundamental principal, metropolitan goal or policy <br />set out in Chapter ~~ of the P1 an; or ~4} requires a substantial diver- <br />sion of budgeted planning resources from the approved work programs of <br />affected city departments. <br />_6_ <br />