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The adopted public facilities plan includes this property in an existing water service boundary (Rainbow} and designed storm and sanitary sewer basin projects. Improvements to Hayden Bridge Road to urban standards will occur through urban transition agreements with Lane County and as development within the UGB occurs. III. Requirements for Urban Growth Boundary Amendments The current Metro Plan amendment process adopted by all three jurisdictions in November, 1990, requires the following criteria to be applied in rendering a decision of approval or denial of plan amendments: Section 7.Ob5~2} Criteria for Approval of Plan Amendment ., . (a} The amendment must be consistent with the relevant statewide planning goals adopted by the Land Conservation and Development Commission. (b} Adoption of the amendment must not make the Retropalitan Area General Plan internally inconsistent; and (c} The amendment is not a Plan update amendment, unless the amendment has been initiated by the governing bodies of the City of Eugene, City of Springfield and Lane County. Response to ~1.Q65(2}(a}: The amendment must be consistent with the relevant statewide planning goals adopted by LCDC. ~1} The Metro Plan amendment is consistent with the relevant statewide planning goals adopted by the Land Conservation and Development Commission. Statewide Goal 2 Land Use Planning; Goal 3 Agricultural Land3 Goal 14 Housing; and Goal 14 Urbanization are the applicable goals. Goal 2 contains the exceptions process that must be addressed whenever a designated resource land, in this case Agricultural, is proposed to be.used.or designated for non-resource purposes. Goal 3 applies only insofar as the provisions of this goal demonstrate why this property does not implement or carry out the intended purpose of the goal. Goal 10 applicability is relevant to the proposal because this action would change the designation of this property from agricultural to low density residential. Goal 14 must be applied to any expansion of an acknowledged urban growth boundary. Also, specific sections of the Oregon Revised Statutes FORS) are applicable and presented here as findings. A. Goal 2 Land Use~Planning DRS 197.132(1} A local government may adopt an exception to a goal when: (a} The land subject to the exception is physically developed to the extent that it is no longer available for uses allowed by the applicable goal; Exhibit A -- Findings -- 4