Item B: Parks, Recreation and Open Space Comprehensive Plan

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~ Home Builders A ss 0 C I A T I 8 It of Lane County October 8~ 2005 President Lawless Eugene Planning Commission City of Eugene 777 Pearl Street Eugene, Oregon 9740 I Dear President Lawless and Commissioners, The Home Builders Association of Lane County and the Homebuilders Construction Company thank the Eugene. staff and the Eugene Planning Commission for this opportunity to provide input on the proposed Eugene parks refinement plan. I apologize in advance fOf the length of these comments~ but the implications of the refinement plan adoption are numerous and complicated. The HBA and HCC beliyve the refinement plan is inconsistent with the Metro Plan in the following manners: I. The Proposed Refmement Plan is inconsistent with the Metro Plan because it 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. The planning area for Eugene's proposed refinement plan is shown on Map 1 of Appendix B. The proposed planning area extends well beyond the Eugene UGB and the metro plan diagram - west to Fern Ridge Reservoir~ north to Coburgand beyond, and south to Goshen and Spenser Creek. Much of the proposed planning area extends into rural Lane County that is currently part of the Rural Lane County Comprehensive Plan. This conflicts with the metro plan. Section F of the Introduction ofthe Metro Plan entitled Relationship to Lane County Rural Comprehensive Plan states: The boundaries of the Metropolitan Area General Plan are adjacent to the boundaries of the Lane County General Plan that surround the Eugene.Springfield metropolitan area. There is not overlap between the boundaries of the 2053 Laura Street Springfjeldf OR 97477 (541) 484-5352 FAX: (541) 484-5386