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.. ~ . 0' \iiJ A V ID. APPLICABLE STANDARDS The criteria evaluation of an amendment to a refinement plan are specified in Section 9.145(2) of the Eugene code and include the following standards: 1. The plan amendment is consistent with the Metropolitan Area General Plan; 2. The plan amendment is consistent with remaining portions of the refinement plan; and 3. The plan amendment is found to address one or more of the following: (a) an error in the publication of the plan; (b) a change in circumstances in a substantial manner not anticipated in the plan; (c) incorporation into the plan of new inventory material which relates to a statewide goal; or (d) a change in public-policy. Analysis of each is as follows. - Section 9.145(2)(a): The plan amendment is consistent with the Metropolitan Area General Plan. The proposed map and text changes to the Bethel Danebo Refinement Plan are prompted by the findings of the Eugene Commercial Lands Study which recommends a 10 acre commercial addition to the existing 5 acre designation and a corresponding change to permit Communi~ Commercial Uses. The Neighborhood Plan text changes that are proposed are intended to reflect the recommended changes and to correct portions of the text affecting other portions of the development node where circumstances or facts have changed. The Commercial Lands Study previously mentioned was adopted as a "refinement plan" to the Metropolitan Area. General Plan. According to Section 9.138(2)(a) of the Eugene Code, a "Refinement Plan" means a "comprehensive Land use plan for a discrete part of the geographic area regulated by the Metropolitan Area General Plan-andin~ludes special area studies listed in the Metropolitan Area General Plan. n The policy recommendations in the Commercial Lands Study affect discrete parts (commercial lands) of the geographic area regulated by the plan and therefore are refinements to the Metropolitan Area Plan. These proposed changes are therefore consistent with the Metropolitan Area Plan because it has been "refined" by policies ~d recommendations of the Commercial Lands Study Of possible interest is the language in Implementation Strategy 19.1 of the Commercial Lands Study which states that the recommended commercial expansion should occur,'after the intersection improvements (Barger-BeltIine) are made. Applicant intends to "track" with the intersection improvement schedule which now ca1ls for an interchange to be started in the first half of 1994. The'interchange design is now known and features a ndi~ond~ type 12 1-24