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EXHIBIT A Findings in Support of Ordinance Na. Amending the Policy Section of Chapter lv of the Eugene-Springfield Metropolitan Area General Plan. Section 9.125(2} of the Eugene Cade,1971 provides that the following criteria shall be applied by the City Council in approving or denying a plan amendment application ar initiation: 1. The amendment must be consistent with the relevant statewide planning goals adopted by the Land Conservation and Development Commission. The following are the applicable Statewide Planning Goals; Goal 1-Citizen Involvement. Goa11 is intended to ensure that citizens are involved in all stages of the planning process. Citizens have been involved in all stages of the development of this amendment. The following summarizes the major citizen involvement opportunities in the development of the proposed revisions to Chapter N of the Eugene- Springbeld Metropolitan Area General Plan and demonstrates how the revisions enhance citizen-initiated amendments to the Plan: 1. In Goober of 1988, the Metropolitan Policy Committee (MPC} directed the metropolitan staff to draft changes to Chapter N of the Metropolitan Plan to streamline the plan amendment process. Z. Changes to Chapter N of the Metropolitan Plan were developed by metropolitan staff and reviewed and approved by the Joint Planning Commission Committee (JPCC} and the three metropolitan planning commissions and approved by the three governing bodies in 199U. 3. In March of 1992, the MPC directed that metropolitan staff draft amendments to the Metropolitan Plan text that would further simplify and streamline the amendment process to the Plan. 4. The proposed revisions to Chapter N enhance citizen involvement by clarifying that citizen initiated amendment proposals are limited to changes to the Metropolitan Plan diagram and site-specilYC references to the Metropolitan Plan text and by placing the policies in Chapter Iv into a mare Exhibit A -1