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Properties across the Channel to the west and north of the site are designated and zoned Commercial. North of the Channel isright-of-way for Interstate Highway 105. East of the site are the State-owned National Guard Armory, a Lane County-owned parcel occupied by the existing University of Gregon football practice field, and a parcel owned by the Boy Scouts of America for their local offices, all of which are designated Government and Education and zoned Public Land. Centennial Boulevard borders the site on the south. Land across Centennial Boulevard is owned by the Gregon State System of Higher Education, is in use by the University of Gregon for indoor and outdoor sports f elds, and is part of a larger parcel containing Autzen Stadium and the Len Casanova Center, designated Parks and Gpen Space and zoned Public Land. Prior Related Land Use Decisions The current Commercial designation of the western portion of the Skipworth property was shown an the land use diagram adopted as part of the Eugene-Springf eld Metropolitan Area General Plan Metro Plank in 1982. It appears to be a continuation of the Commercial designation shown on an area east of the Ferry Street Bridge in the Eugene-Springfield Metropolitan Area 1990 General Plan ~ 1990 Plan, adapted in 1972, which preceded the Metro Plan. The 1990 Plan diagram does not show the Q Street Channel, so exact correspondence of the 1990 Plan and Metro Plan diagram designations is difficult to determine. There were no text references to the Skipworth property in either the 1990 Plan or the 1982 Metro Plan. No change to the Metro Plan designation for this property was adopted as part of the 19$7 Periodic Review of the Metro Plan, or subsequent Metro Plan diagram amendments; and no text references to the property have been added to the Metro Plan. when the willakenzie Area Plan was adapted in 1992, the existing Metro Plan diagram designations for the Skipworth property were reproduced on the willakenzie Land Use Diagram [willakenzie Area Plan, fold-out map] and the Ferry Street Bridge subarea map [willakenzie Area Plan, page 70~. There are no text references in the willakenzie Area Plan to the Commercial designation of the western portion of the Skipworth site and no rationale for the split CommerciallGovernment and Education designations on the willakenzie Area Plan land use diagram and subarea map. The Commercial designated portion of the site was not included in the supply of commercial land for the Eugene Commercial Lands Study ~Gctober 1992}. Tvne_II Metro Plan Amendment Process 1n 1995, the Eugene and Springfield City Councils and the Lane County Board of Commissioners revised the Metro Plan amendment process to simplify and streamline the process for Metro Plan diagram amendments located within the incorporated city limits of Eugene and Springfield which meet the def nition of Type II Metro Plan amendments. Metro Plan amendment procedures are contained in Eugene Code SEC} Sections 9.118 to 9.136; Planning Division Staff Report - MA 97-1 July 1,1997 Page 3