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EXHIBIT A Findings in Support of Ordinance No, 19958 Amending the Pion Amendments and Refinements Section of Chapter IV of the Eugene-Springfield Metropolitan Area General Plan, Section 9.1282) of the Eugene Code, 1971 provides that the following criteria shall be applied by the City Council in approving or denying a plan amendment application or 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 Gaols: Goal 1-Citizen Involvement. Goal 1 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 IV of the Eugene- Springfield Metropolitan Area General Plan and demonstrates how the revisions enhance citizen-initiated amendments to the Plan: 1. In actober of 19$8, the Metropolitan Policy Committee ~MPC~ directed the metropolitan staff to draft changes to Chapter IV of the Metropolitan Plan to streamline the plan amendment process. 2. Changes to Chapter IV 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 1990. 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 Joint Planning Commission Committee reviewed the proposed revisions to Chapter IV of the Metropolitan Plan on May 18,1992. Exhibit A -1