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<br />acknowledged Eugene Commercial Lands Study included a surplus of Commercial acreage of <br />170 acres. This acreage represents those lands that were designated as commercial lands, beyond <br />the acreage needed to accommodate the projected 20-year demand. Since the adoption of that <br />Study, the City has taken various actions that have decreased the amount of surplus commercial <br />acreage, resulting in a current surplus of 129.10 acres. Even if the provisions described in 1 <br />through 5 above were not included in the ordinance, the Goal 5 protection measures contained in <br />this ordinance could affect, at most, 43.40 acres of commercially designated land, leaving a <br />surplus of 85.70 acres. <br /> <br />An analysis of potential impacts to the supply of buildable industrial lands within the Eugene <br />UGB was conducted using the regional Geographic Information System (GIS), data provided by <br />City of Springfield staff and calculations of supply and demand from the Metropolitan Industrial <br />Lands Inventory Report, 1993. The State-acknowledged Metropolitan Industrial Lands <br />Inventory Report included a surplus of industrial acreage of2,954.28 acres (considering a low <br />demand assumption) or of 2,432.28 acres (considering a high demand assumption). This acreage <br />represents those lands that were designated as industrial lands, beyond the acreage needed to <br />accommodate the projected 20-year demand. Since the adoption of that Report, Eugene and <br />Springfield have taken various actions that have decreased the amount of surplus industrial <br />acreage, resulting in a current surplus of either 2,221.18 acres (considering a low demand <br />assumption) or of 1,699.18 acres (considering a high demand assumption). Even if the <br />provisions described in 1 through 4 above were not included in the ordinance, the Goal 5 <br />protection measures contained in this ordinance could affect, at most, 44.73 acres of industrially <br />designated land, leaving a surplus of2,176.45 acres (considering a low demand assumption) or <br />of 1,654.45 acres (considering a high demand assumption). <br /> <br />Based on the forgoing discussion and analysis, it is clear that even if the maximum possible area <br />within the proposed /WR Conservation Area was treated as a subtraction from the buildable <br />lands inventory, and taking into account plan amendments that took land out of commercial and <br />industrial categories, and taking into account legislative zone changes, there would still be a net <br />surplus of buildable lands in the applicable categories for both industrial and commercial land. <br /> <br />Therefore, the ordinance is consistent with Goal 9. <br /> <br />Goal 10 - Housing.: To provide for the housing needs of the citizens of the state. <br /> <br />The /WR overlay zone does not render a property unusable for residential uses. In fact, specific <br />provisions in the /WR overlay zone ensure that the overlay zone does not have such an effect on <br />a property. Those provisions are: <br /> <br />1. The use restrictions of the /WR overlay zone only apply to that portion of a lot that is within a <br />specified distance from an identified water feature. The use-restricted area is referred to as the <br />"/WR conservation area." Within the portions of the lot that are outside of the /WR conservation <br />area, land uses are not restricted by the /WR overlay zone. EC 9.4930(1). Properties that have a <br /> <br />6 <br />