Item B: Parks, Recreation and Open Space Comprehensive Plan

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Goal 10 requires that communities plan for and maintain an inventory of buildable residential land for needed housing units. The PROS Comprehensive Plan does not have a direct impact on residential development opportunities. The PROS Comprehensive Plan does not change the zoning, designation or allowed uses on any properties. While the PROS Comprehensive Plan does include strategies to provide 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 residential lands. Therefore, the PROS Comprehensive Plan is consistent with Goal 10. c) The Eugene-Springfield Metropolitan Area General Plan (Metro Plan) is the policy tool that provides a basis for decision-making in this area. On August 23, 1982, the State acknowledged the Metro Plan as being in compliance with statewide planning goals. The PROS Comprehensive Plan does not amend the Metro Plan. Because the Metro Plan is this area's acknowledged policy document, the City is already in compliance with the state's general planning requirements. 1 The testimony states that, in order for a park plan to qualify for any exception to statewide planning Goals 3 and 4, the plan must include items delineated in OAR Chapter 660, Division 34. The City is not requesting, and does not need, an exception to statewide planning Goals 3 and 4 for the adoption of the PROS Comprehensive Plan. Regarding Goals 3 and 4, the findings of consistency (Attachment B to the AIS), state: Goal 3 - Agricultural Land: To preserve and maintain agricultural lands. Goal 3 is not applicable to this ordinance as the PROS Comprehensive Plan does not affect any agricultural land designation. The PROS lWhile this testimony directs the Planillng Commission to the definition of "comprehensive plan" in support of the assertion that the PROS Comp Plan must include specific projects, the testimony fails to include all relevant portions of that definition. ORS 197.015(5) defines "comprehensive plans" as follows: "(5) "Comprehensive plan" means a generalized, coordinated land use map and policy statement of the governing body of a local government that interrelates all functional and natural systems and activities relating to the use of lands, including but not limited to sewer and water systems, transportation systems, educational facilities, recreational facilities, and natural resources and air and water quality management programs. "Comprehensive" means all-inclusive, both in terms of the geographic area covered and functional and natural activities and systems occurring in the area covered by the plan. "General nature" means a summary of policies and proposals in broad categories and does not necessarily indicate specific locations of any area, activity or use. A plan is "coordinated" when the needs of all levels of governments, semipublic and private agencies and the citizens of Oregon have been considered and accommodated as much as possible. "Land" includes water, both surface and subsurface, and the air. "(Emphasis added). Attachment A October 31, 2005 Page 11