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Goal 5 - Upen Spaces, Scenic and Historic Areas, and Natural Areas The purpose of Goal 5 is to protect natural resources, and conserve scenic and historic areas and open spaces. ~n addition to the Goal, the Land Conservation and Development Commission has adopted an administrative rule to aid local government in achieving the requirements of the Goal. The original Goal 5 Rule, OAR 660, Division 16, was adopted in 1991; revisions to the Goal 5 Rule were adopted in 1996 as GAR. 660, Division 23. The 1991 Goal 5 Rule continues to apply topost-acknowledgment plan amendments, such as the Nest Eugene Wetlands Plan amendments, initiated before September I, 1996. Goal 5 and the 1991 Goal 5 Rule focus on the process required to prepare a Goal 5 inventory and develop a program to achieve the goal on a site-specif c basis, through preservation of a resource site; allowing conflicting uses and the loss of the resource; or mitigating negative impacts associated with the conflicting uses through partial protection. Findings: The West Eugene Wetlands Plan ~WEWP} is an approved wetland conservation plan as defined in DRS 196.500 15}. Approval for the existing plan as a wetland Conservation Plan was granted by the Oregon Division of State Lands on September 13,1994 and amended on September 11, 1997. ORS 196.6845} specifies the relationship between Wetland Conservation Plan approval and compliance with Goal 5: "wetland conservation plans approved by the Director of the Division of State Lands pursuant to GRS 196.665 to 196.69 shall be deemed to comply with the requirements of any statewide planning goals related to wetlands, other than estuarine wetlands, for those areas, uses and activities which are regulated by the plan." [See also, ORS I97.279j Approval of the west Eugene Wetlands Plan by the Oregon Division of State Lands ~DSL} as provided by law, satisf es all the requirements of any applicable statewide planning goal related to wetlands including Goal 5} for those areas, uses and activities which are regulated by the plan. The amendments clarify and further refine the WEWP. The findings of goal compliance made as part of initial adoption of the WEWP remain essentially unaffected by these amendments. The amendments do not signif candy alter the function, design and structure of the WEWP. The fundamental program developed for Goal 5 compliance remains essentially unchanged. The policies and criteria of the wEWP operate as a tool to further Goal 5 compliance by assisting in determining the significance of wetland resources, the conflicts and the economic, social, environmental and energy values involved in protecting the resource. That analysis approaches the wetlands of west Eugene as part of an interconnected natural system rather than as separate, discrete sites. The focus remains inside the West Eugene wetlands Special Study Area, keeping Policy Amendments Grdinance, exhibit B (Statewide Planning Goal .~indings~ Page 3