Item B: Parks, Recreation and Open Space Comprehensive Plan

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A-~ 2. Some areas that were not considered.buildable by each ofllie three Buildable Lands Inventory documents were removed from the protected area shapefile for the applicable land use type. a. Bach of the three inventories included only land within tax lots (parcels) as detailed below. Therefore, aU non-tax lotted areas (e.g., rights of way) were removed from the protected area shapefile, since they were not considered buildable in any of the three inventories. i. The Metropolitan IndustriaJ Lands Inventory Repor!, July 1993 (p. 46) defines buildable industrial land as: "vacant land that is free from all of the following prohibitions to development: tloodway, severe soil constraints, severe slopes, approved wetland mitigation site or officially protected wetlands and public ownership (except for the Riverfront Research Park which is considered buildab Ie)." 1. The analysis was limited to "vacant industrial parcels one acre and larger" (p. 45), and the resulting inventory did not include any publicly owned rights-of-way or other publicly-owned, non-tax lotted areas. This is clearly reflected in the sub-area maps (un-numbered pages following the end of Appendix C). ii. The Eugene Commercial Lands Study, October 1992, (p. II-I) defines buildable commercial land as "parcels that are shown on the Metro Plan Diagram as appropriate for commercial development (designated commercial) or are regulated by the City of Bugene so as to allow commerciid uses (zoned commercially). The base date for the analysis was the January 1986- Metropolitan Parcel File. From this data base, any tax lot or portion of a tax lot that was vacant and zoned or designated for commercial use was considered paft of the commercial buildable land inventory." iii. The Eugene-Springfield Metropolit~ Area Residential Land and Housing Study, Supply and Demand Technical Analysis, February 1999 (p. 30) includes the following definition for residential land: "land that is zoned or designated residential in the Eugene-Springfield DGB. The data based for this analysis is the 1992 Metropolitan Parcel File." b. The Metropolitan Industrial Lands Inventory Report, July 1993 (p. 46) defines buildable industrial land as: "vacant land that is free from all of the following prohibitions to development: floodway, severe soil constraints, severe slopes, approved wetland mitigation site or officially protected wetlands and public ownership {except for the Riverfront Research Park which is considered buildable)," Staff did not have access to digital mapping of these categories ofland from the time the inventory was conducted, so none of the areas with prohibitions to development listed above were subtracted from the protected areas shapefile. c. The Eugene-Springfield Metropolitan Area Residential Land and Housing Study, Supply and Demand Technical Analysis, February 1999 (p. 32) defines areas considered unbuildable: "As part of the supply analysis, land considered unhuiIdable for the purposes ofthe buildable lands inventory acreage calculations was identified and subtracted from all the supply components. These lands considered unbuildable for the purposes of this study included the following: · Floodway;