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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]. 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. VL~ith 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 projected demand for commercial land by over 100 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 Metro 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 timing of amendments. Lane County's request to amend the Metro Plan diagram hand automatically the Willakenzie Area Plan diagrams} for the Skipworth property is consistent with this approach. The amendment will not affect the supply of commercial lands, as documented in the Eugene Commercial Lands Study, and will not otherwise affect Metro Plan compliance with Goal 9. Goal la, Housing: ~'o provide for the housing needs of citizens of the state. As j uvenile detention facilities are not considered a residential use and no residentially zoned or designated land is involved in this application, this Goal is not relevant and the amendment will not affect Metro Plan compliance with Goal 10. Goal 11, Public Facilities and Services: ~'o plan and develop a timely, orderly and efficient arrangement of publ is facil staes and services to serve as a framework for urban and rural development The property currently has the full complement of urban services and facilities, Because no transition from rural to urban development is required, and no extension or addition of public facilities and services is needed as a result of the amendment, this Goal is not relevant and the 4