Item 4: PH on Ordinance Adopting PROS Comprehensive Plan

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Questions were raised by the council at the work wession regarding the relationship of the PROS Comprehensive Plan to the Parks System Development Charge (SDC) review. The PROS comprehensive planning process has resulted in the development of two documents: a PROS Comprehensive Plan document and a PROS Project and Priority Plan. The PROS Project and Priority Plan is proposed for adoption by City Council resolution separate from the adoption of PROS Comprehensive Plan (which is being adopted by ordinance and as a refinement to the Metro Plan). The Project and Priority Plan is the document most relevant to the SDC review, in that it identifies capital project costs which the parks SDC methodology under review must consider. The requirement that the City consider the costs of projects in an adopted plan when modifying SDCs or adopting new SDCs arises from Oregon Revised Statutes. ORS 223.304(2)(a) provides, in part, that SDC improvement fees must be established or modified by ordinance or resolution setting forth a methodology that demonstrates consideration of the projected cost of capital improvements identified in an adopted plan. This plan must meet certain criteria specified in ORS 223.309, including the requirement that the plan include a list of the capital improvements that the local government intends to fund, in whole or in part, with revenues from an improvement fee and the estimated cost, timing and percentage of costs eligible to be funded with revenues from the improvement fee for each improvement. The Project and Priority Plan will satisfy these statutory requirements. The Project and Priority Plan itself does not prescribe the form of the SDC methodology nor the amount of the SDC; rather it is a reference document that will be considered in the development of the SDC. The SDC methodology may consider the Project and Priority Plan using a variety of means and may include all, or a portion of the SDC-eligible project costs contained in the list. For example, the council as a matter of policy in adopting the SDC methodology, may choose to utilize a subset of the projects in the Project and Priority Plan as the basis for the SDC. These policy issues will be considered through adoption of a modified parks SDC, subsequent to the separate adoptions of the PROS Comprehensive Plan and the Project and Priority Plan. RELATED CITY POLICIES The PROS Comprehensive Plan will replace the Eugene Parks and Recreation Plan, which was adopted by the City Council in 1989 as a refinement to the Metro Plan. COUNCIL OPTIONS The council is asked to hold a public hearing on the proposed adoption of the Parks, Recreation, and Open Space (PROS) Comprehensive Plan. The council will be asked to adopt the PROS Comprehensive Plan on January 9, 2006. CITY MANAGER’S RECOMMENDATION None; this is a public hearing only. SUGGESTED MOTION None; this is a public hearing only. L:\CMO\2005 Council Agendas\M051212\S0512124.doc