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Hamepage before the hearing. <br />6. During the February 18,1998 hearing and subsequent comment period, comments <br />were received from the Eugene 'Water and Electric Board regarding the Utility <br />Corridor and from the Lane County Roads Advisory Committee on the Planned <br />Transportation Corridor amendments. The amendments in Exhibit A of this <br />Ordinance incorporate changes to the Planning Commission recommendations to <br />address that testimony. <br />We find that the opportunities for citizen involvement detailed above are beyond what is <br />necessary to achieve consistency with Goal 1. <br />Goal 5 , open Spaces, Scenic and Historic Areas, and Natural Areas <br />The purpose of Goal 5 is to protect natural resources, and conserve scenic and historic areas and <br />open spaces. In addition to the Goal, the Land Conservation and Development Commission has <br />adopted an administrative rule to aid local government in achieving the requirements of the Goal. <br />The original Goal 5 Rule, OAR 660, Division 16, was adopted in 1991; revisions to the Goa15 <br />Rule were adopted in 1996 as OAR 660, Division 23. The 1991 Goa15 Rule continues to apply <br />topost-acknowledgment plan amendments, such as the Nest Eugene Wetlands Plan <br />amendments, initiated before September 1,1996. <br />Goal 5 and the 1991 Goal 5 Rule focus on the process required to prepare a Goal 5 inventory and <br />develop a program to achieve the goal on asite-specific basis, through preservation of a resource <br />site; allowing conflicting uses and the loss of the resource; or mitigating negative impacts <br />associated with the conflicting uses through partial protection. <br />Findings: <br />The 'Nest Eugene Wetlands Plan ~WEWP~ is an approved wetland conservation plan as defined <br />in ORS 196.80015}. Approval for the existing plan as a Wetland Conservation Plan was granted <br />by the Oregon Division of State Lands on September 13,1994. ORS 196.6848} specifies the <br />relationship between Wetland Conservation Plan approval and compliance with Goal 5: <br />"Wetland conservation plans approved by the Director of the Division of State Lands <br />pursuant to ORS 196.668 to 196.692 shall be deemed to comply with the requirements of <br />any statewide planning goals related to wetlands, other than estuarine wetlands, for those <br />areas, uses and activities which are regulated by the plan." [See also, ORS 197.279] <br />Approval of the West Eugene Wetlands Plan by the Oregon Division of State Lands ~DSL} as <br />provided by law, satisfies all the requirements of any applicable statewide planning goal related <br />to wetlands including Goal 5}for those areas, uses and activities which are regulated by the <br />plan. <br />P~'C/UC Amendments Grdinance, Exhibit $ (Statewide Planning Goan Findings) Page 3 <br />