Item B: Ordinance Concerning Goal 5 Natural Resources Study

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The Inventory Process The adoption of a wetland inventory and the clarification of the already-adopted inventories of riparian and upland wildlife habitat sites within Eugene's Urban Growth Boundary are a specific response to the requirements of Goal 5.1 The identification of significant riparian and wildlife habitat sites has already been acknowledged by LCDC.2 This ordinance makes that acknowledged inventory of riparian and wildlife habitat sites a part of the new Goal 5 Water Resources Conservation Plan, through mapping that more clearly identifies the precise location of those sites. The wetlands inventory, also made a part ofthe new Goal 5 Water Resources Conservation Plan by this ordinance, was conducted in accordance with the administrative rules specifically applicable to Goal 5 wetland inventories, as detailed below. In adopting a Goal 5 inventory of wetlands, OAR 660-023-0100(2) requires that local governments start with a Local Wetlands Inventory (L WI) prepared using the standards and procedures of OAR 141 (Rules of the Department of State Lands ("DSL")). The LWI, for areas within the Eugene Urban Growth Boundary, approved for consistency with OAR 141 by DSL on January 14,2005, is adopted as findings to this ordinance, as Exhibit C. For purposes of the Goal 5 inventory, local governments are to apply specific criteria adopted by DSL to those wetland sites included on the L WI. Those that meet the criteria are "significant wetlands" and must be included on the area's Goal 5 inventory of wetlands. The analysis of each wetland site considering those DSL criteria is contained in Appendix E ("Significant Wetland Determination Sheets") to the City of Eugene Local Wetlands Inventory. That document is a part of the record to these proceedings, by this specific incorporation and by its physical inclusion during the proceedings. ESEE Analysis The Goal 5 rules require that local governments conduct an analysis of the economic, social, environmental, and energy (ESEE) consequences that could result from a decision to allow, limit, or prohibit a conflicting use. OAR 660-023-0040 (and OAR 660-023-0090(7) with respect to riparian corridors) describes the four steps to be followed in conducting an ESEE analysis. The ESEE analysis for each site on the riparian, wildlife and wetlands inventory is contained in Exhibit B to this ordinance (as that analysis pertains to sites within the City limits). In addition, a summary of the ESEE analysis, describing the degree of protection intended for each significant site is adopted as part of the Goal 5 Water Resources Conservation Plan, attached as Exhibit A to the ordinance. The conflicting use analysis for each site on the riparian, wildlife 1 Areas within the UGB that are covered by the West Eugene Wetlands Plan are excluded from the inventory and protection measures ofthis ordinance based on OAR 660-023-0100(8), which states that a "wetlands conservation plan approved by the director of DSL shall be deemed to comply with Goal 5." 2 LCDC's only requirement for acknowledgment was that a portion of one resource site be removed from the inventory; this ordinance complies with that requirement. 3