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EXHIBIT A <br />Findings in Support of Ordinance No.19905 Amending Eugene <br />Code 1971 Code Provisions Concerning the Eugene- <br />Spring~eld Metropolitan Area General Plan Amendment <br />Processes. <br />Section 9.128~~} of the Eugene Code, 1971 provides that the following criteria shall <br />be applied by the City Council in approving or denying a plan amendment application or <br />initiation: <br />1. The amendment must be consistent with the relevant statewide planning goals <br />adopted by the Land Conservation and Development Commission. <br />The following are the applicable Statewide Planning Goals: <br />Goal 1 • Citizen Involvement. <br />Goal 1 is intended to ensure that citizens are involved in all stages of the planning <br />process. Citizens have been involved in all stages of the development of this <br />amendment. The fallowing summarizes the major citizen involvement opportunities <br />in the development of the proposed revisions to Chapter N of the Eugene- <br />Springheld Metropolitan Area General Plan and demonstrates how the revisions <br />enhance citizen-initiated amendments to the Plan: <br />1. In October of 1985, the Metropolitan Policy Committee ~MPC} directed the <br />metropolitan staff to draft changes to Chapter IV of the Metropolitan Plan <br />to streamline the plan amendment process. <br />2. Changes to Chapter IV of the Metropolitan Plan were developed by <br />metropolitan staff and reviewed and approved by the Joint Planning <br />Commission Committee ~JPCC} and the three metropolitan planning <br />commissions and approved by the three governing bodies in 1990. <br />3. In March of 1992, the MPC directed that metropolitan staff draft <br />amendments to the Metropolitan Plan text that would further simplify and <br />streamline the amendment process to the Plan. <br />4. The proposed revisions to Chapter N enhance citizen involvement by <br />clarifying that citizen initiated amendment proposals are limited to changes <br />to the Metropolitan Plan diagram and site-specific references to the <br />Metropolitan Plan text and by placing the policies in Chapter IV into a more <br />Exhibit A -1 <br />