Item B: Parks, Recreation and Open Space Comprehensive Plan

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Public Hearing Testimony 12. Roxie Cuellar, Homebuilders Association, testimony (October 8, 2005) states that the Home Builders Association of Lane County and the Homebuilders Construction Company believe that the PROS Comprehensive Plan is inconsistent with the Metro Plan in the following manners: a) The proposed Refinement Plan proposes to expand the Metro Plan's Goal 8 planning area into lands presently included in the Lane County Rural Comprehensive Plan without following the required amendment process. b) The Eugene Parks Refinement Plan's proposed park land acquisitions are inconsistent with the Metro Plan findings and policies. c) The Eugene Parks Refinement Plan proposed park facilities are not included in the plan. d) The Refinement Plan does not take recreational facilities and open space owned by other public entities or by private parties into account. Staff Response: a) The PROS Comprehensive Plan does not amend the boundaries of the Eugene-Springfield Metropolitan Area General Plan (Metro Plan). Appendix B, Map 1 of the PROS Comprehensive Plan simply illustrates the area that the City sees as potentially fulfilling its citizens' future park and recreational needs. The "planning area" described in Appendix B, Map 1 does not amount to the City expanding its jurisdictional or regulatory authority beyond its current boundaries. A noted earlier, the PROS Comprehensive Plan has no regulatory effect on land not under the City's jurisdictional authority. It is a strategy j planning document that is intended as a guide for the City as it moves forward to meet the recreational and park needs of the City's residents. The City need not amend the Metro Plan to adopt a plan that includes strategies for meeting the park and recreational needs of its citizens by looking to land not currently owned by the City or within the City's jurisdictional authority. b) As demonstrated in Attachment B to the AIS, the PROS Comprehensive Plan is consistent with Statewide planning Goal 9 and Goal 10. Goal 9 - Economic Development: To provide adequate opportunities throughout the state for a variety of economic activities vital to the health, welfare, and prosperity of Oregon's citizens. The PROS Comprehensive Plan does not have a direct impact on economic activities. It does not change the zoning, designation or allowed uses on any properties. While the PROS Comprehensive Plan does include strategies to provide of a certain amount of park acreage per 1,000 residents and identifies the need to acquire property for park use, it does not rezone any property for park use. Thus, the PROS Comprehensive Plan has no effect on the inventories of industrial or commercial lands. Therefore, the PROS Comprehensive Plan is consistent with Goal 9. Goal 10 - Housing: To provide for the housing needs of the citizens of the state. Attachment A October 31, 2005 Page 10