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In 1992, the City of Eugene adopted the Eugene Commercial Lands Study and the Metropolitan Industrial Lands Inventory Report and Policy Report. These studies were adopted as functional ref nements to the Metro Plan, and comply with the requirements of Goal 9. The primary intent of these studies was to determine the supply and demand for commercial and industrial land. with regard to commercial land, Table 4, page II-15 of the Commercial Lands Study indicated that the supply of commercial land as of 1989 was 702 acres. [Pg. 242] Demand needs projected through the year 2010 were 532 acres, resulting in an excess supply of 170 acres. This f gore also includes a portion of existing industrial land approximately 95 acres} in available supply, since the I-1 and I-2 zoning districts allow certain "supporting commercial establishments." The applicant submitted into the record a more recent analysis by Lane Council of Governments LCGG} updating the methodology used in the 1989 commercial lands inventory and applying the most recent data, the 1994 parcel files. The LCGG analysis indicated a supply of undeveloped commercial land of 354 acres, as of 1994. [Pg. 323] The Industrial Lands Policy Report concluded that the short-term ~5 year} supply of industrial land was determined to be 1,887 acres as of 1989, while the short-term demand was estimated to be between 228 and 410 acres. [Pg. 311 ] The Report also determined that the long-term X20 year} supply of buildable industrial land was 3,604 acres within the Metro UGB and 2,595 acres within the Eugene UGB, far exceeding the long-term demand estimated at between 650 and 1,172 acres. [Pp. 305, 313] This information indicates that the industrial land supply is more than adequate to meet the short-term and long-term demand for future industrial development. The applicant submitted an analysis by LCGG updating the available supply of undeveloped industrial land within the Eugene UGB using 1994 parcel data files. The analysis calculated a total supply of 2,861 acres of undeveloped industrially designated or zoned land within the Eugene UGB. [Pg. 324] The Industrial Lands Inventory Report identified that of the total acreage of vacant land within the Eugene-Springfield UGB designated or zoned industrial, approximately 10% of the vacant acreage is deemed unbuildable. The Industrial Lands Policy Report defined "buildable land" as privately owned and "not prohibited from development due to physical prohibitions including floodway, severe soils or slope constraints, and officially protected wetland or wetland mitigation status." [Pg. 7, Policy Report] Applying the same 10% reduction for unbuildable lands to the updated LCGG analysis of vacant industrial land within the Eugene UGB yields approximately 2,575 acres of vacant, buildable industrial land within the Eugene UGB as of 1994 [Pgs.126,127], which far exceeds the demand within the entire Eugene-Springfield Metro UGB. Even if the amount of unbuildable acres within the entire Eugene-Springfield Metro UGB X435 acres} identified in the Industrial Lands Inventory Report [Pg. 308] is subtracted from the updated LCGG analysis of vacant industrial land only within the Eugene UGB, the yield of 2,426 acres still far exceeds the projected demand. Another study, a "Market Demand Study for Nodal Development" by ECGNorthwest and Leland 5