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EXHIBIT C: FINDINGS IN SUPPORT OF THE ORDINANCE AMENDING THE EUGENE- SPRINGFIELD METROPOLITAN AREA GENERAL PLAN DIAGRAM, CONCURRENT AUTOMATIC AMENDMENT OF THE wILLOw CREEK SPECIAL AREA STUDY DIAGRAM MAP E}, AND ZONING FOR THE WESTEC SITE MA 92-21Z 97-24, WESTEC The following findings pertain to the wester site Assessor's Map 17-04-33-33, Tax Lots 700 and 800}. Numbers in bracketed citations refer to page numbers in the Gctober 27,1997 record packet distributed to the Eugene City Council. CRITERIA FOR EVALUATING A METRO PLAN AMENDMENT AND CONCURRENT AUTOMATIC AMENDMENT TO A REFINEMENT PLAN The following criteria from EC 9.1253}shall be applied by the City Council in approving or denying a Metro Plan Amendment application; ~a} The amendment must be consistent with the relevant statewide planning goals adopted by the Land Conservation and Development Commission; and fib} Adoption of the amendment must not make the Metro Plan internally inconsistent. EC 9.1364} provides that when a Metro Plan amendment is enacted that requires an amendment to a refinement plan or functional plan diagram or map for consistency, the Metro Plan diagram amendment automatically amends the ref nement plan or functional plan diagram or map if no amendment to the refinement plan or functional plan text is involved. Based on substantial evidence in the record, the Eugene City Council finds as follows: Metro Plan Amendment Criterion #1: EC 9.128 3 a The amendment must be consistent with the relevant statewide lannin owls ado ted b the Land Conservation and Develo meat Commission. Goal 1-Citizen Involvement: To develop a citizen involvement progYam that insures the opportunity far citizens to be involved in all phases of the planning process. The amendment is consistent with Goal 1 through the City of Eugene4s public notif cation and public hearing processes concerning Metro Plan amendments. A Metro Plan amendment application is subject to the public notif cation and hearing processes adopted by the City of Eugene in EC 9.118 to 9.136. This amendment was considered by the Eugene Planning Commission and Eugene City Council in public hearings. Notice of these public hearings was duly published in the newspaper of record, The Register-Guard. Written