Item B: Parks, Recreation and Open Space Comprehensive Plan

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notice of the hearing to any person who provided oral or written testimony during the planning commission hearing procedures and any person who requested notice of the planning commission's decision. After City Council holds a public hearing, it will be asked to take final action on the PROS Comprehensive Plan. (That action will include written findings and conclusions.) Within five days of Council's decision, the City will provide notice of the decision to any person who provided oral or written testimony during the council hearing process, any person who requested notice of the decision, and DLCD. The notice will summarize the decision and state the date of the decision. Concurrent with the City's processing of the PROS Comprehensive Plan, the City will be processing amendments to EC 9.8010 (listing the Eugene Parks and Recreation Plan - 1989 as an adopted plan) and EC 9.9550 (setting forth the adopted 1989 P & R plan policies). These Chapter 9 amendments will also be processed in accordance with the City code's Type V procedures; thus, City staff will be presenting the City Council with one ordinance that both adopts the PROS Comprehensive Plan and also amends the applicable code provisions. II. PROS PROJECT LIST ADOPTION PROCESS The Project List identifies projects and suggested priorities, and is based on input from thousands of Eugene residents. By nature, the Project List needs to be flexible; priorities need to be able to shift in order to respond to funding opportunities, community trends and needs. An earlier draft of the PROS Comprehensive Plan included a detailed project list. That Project List was (and is) intended to comply with state statutory system development charge (SDC) requirements set forth at ORS 223.304 and ORS 223.209. In order to preserve the necessary flexibility of the Project List, the list has been separated from the PROS Comprehensive Plan and will be presented to the Council for adoption via resolution. If the project list required by ORS 223.309 were to be included in the PROS Comprehensive Plan it would, by its location in the PROS Comprehensive Plan, be adopted as a land use decision. This would mean that the project list would be subjected to the land use plan amendment process every time the City wanted to change the priority of a proposed project because of funding opportunities or demographic changes. So that the City can avoid having to go through the land use process every time that it wants to amend the Project List, the City Council will be asked to adopt the Project List in an action that is separate from the PROS Comprehensive Plan adoption. In an e-mail message to the City Council (and others) about the decision to separate the PROS Comprehensive Plan and the Project List, Roxie Cuellar states, in part: The Comprehensive plan process does typically require projects to be included. For example, significant public facilities projects - water, sewers, stormwater, transportation - must be included in the Comprehensive plan. We just won a LUBA decision last week that says that the project list has to be fairly specific. That is because the Comprehensive plan represents what the community has actually decided to construct or acquire. It is the Comprehensive plan that typically narrows the "vision" or wish list down to a practical list of what the community actually anticipates will be done. PROS Comprehensive Plan Adoption Process Page 2