Item B: Ordinance Concerning Goal 5 Natural Resources Study

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Land Consumption by Zone Changes There was an overall loss of residential land due to zone changes from residential to another nonresidential zoning district such as commercial or industrial. In the Eugene UGB, there was a loss of approximately 61 acres, 46.7 acres of medium-density residential, 12.3 acres of low-density residential, and 2.4 acres of high-density residential land. There was a gain in the Springfield UGB of 4.5 acres of medium density residenti'al land. Land Consumption due to Residential Development Between 1992 and 2000, approximately 1,840 acres of buildable residential land were consumed through residential development, 1,453 acres of low-density residential, 350 acres of medium-density residential, and 37 acres of high-density residential. Information on the density of development is presented on page 6. It should be noted that there are 50.2 acres of low-density residential land held by families who are unlikely to partition in the near future. However, this land was not taken out of the 20-year inventory. Approximately 72 percent of the land consumed during this period was within the Eugene UGB and was primarily low-density residential. In the Springfield UGB, the majority of land developed in housing was also low-density residential. Averaging this consumed land over the eight-year period results in a consumption rate of 230 acres a year. The Residential Land and Housing Study projected a 1992 to 2015 residential land demand range of between 4,767 to 5,840 acres. If this land demand range is averaged over the 23-year period, it results in an annual land demand of between 207 to 254 acres. Thus, the 1992 to 2000 consumption rate falls within the projected annual land demand range. Subdivision and Partition Activity Through the land division process residential buildable land is converted to residential buildable lots. In Springfield, between January 1995 and December 2000, 1,665 buildable lots were created. In Eugene, between July 1991 and December 31,2000, there were 291 subdivision applications that resulted in the creation of 6,943 lots and 522 partitions, which created 1,206 lots. Follow~ng the tables at the end of this report are maps which display the subdivisions platted between January 1995 and June 2000 over the 1995 Residential Land Site Inventory. In the Residential Site Inventory a site was defined as contiguous parcels with the same ownership and plan designation. The inventory included all whole or partial taxlots in vacant, agricultural or timber use residentially zoned or designated low density ,of 10 acres and greater or medium and high density of an acre or more. 3