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The Eugene Commercial Lands Study acknowledged that the Inventory of commercial land is dynamic and that discrepancies between the Plan Diagram and zoning district do occur: "In general, land designated in the 1Vletra Plan for commercial use is also zoned for commercial development, In some cases, however, a speck parcel may be designated for commercial use and not have a commercial zoning or vice versa. YYhile the metro Plan designation provides a map illustrating the broad land use patterns in the community, zoning districts define the sped xc types of uses permitted on an individual parcel. " ~Pg. II-3} The property's long-time and current use as a juvenile justice campus is consistent with permitted uses in the PL, Public Land zoning district. The Commercial designation on the western portion of the site is an anomaly that would be corrected by approval of the requested Metro Plan amendment and concurrent automatic amendment to the Willakenzie Area Plan. The amendment will not reduce Eugene's inventory of commercial buildable lands, because the portion of the property designated Commercial was not included in the Eugene Commercial Lands Study inventory. The Commercial Lands Study methodology for computing the commercial buildable Iand inventory included "any tax lot or portion of a tax lot that was vacant and zoned or designated for commercial use..." [Eugene Commercial Land Study, page II-1 j. Subsequent field checking evaluated parcels larger than .5 acre in size for their availability for development. At the time the inventory was assembled, staff determined that the site was not considered to be "vacant" commercial land because it was part of the Lane County juvenile justice campus; therefore, it was not included in the site inventory [Analysis of the Quality of Commercial Lands, January 1990, Willakenzie subarea map, southern portion, Attachment 3~. Even without the western portion of the Skipworth property included, the supply of vacant commercial land within the Eugene Urban Growth Boundary totaled 505 acres, as of January 1989. With the addition of redevelopment of existing developed sites in the downtown area and of surface parking lots owned by the Eugene Renewal Agency, of neighborhood commercial development in areas designated Residential, and of limited commercial development allowed on sites designated Industrial, the study concluded that the supply of commercial land exceeded the 2010 prof ected demand for commercial land by over l OD acres Commercial Land Study, Table 4, Supply of and Demand for Commercial Land, page II-15, .Attachment 4], Since the Skipworth property was not included in the commercial land supply, amending the Metro Plan diagram hand concurrent automatic amendment to the Willakenzie Area Plan diagram} will not affect Metro Plan compliance with Goal 9. No Nletro Plan diagram amendments or rezonings were adopted concurrent with the adoption of the Commercial Lands Study; rather, it was anticipated that property owners would determine the -- ----- Planning Division Staff Report - MA 97-1 July 1,1997 Page 8