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EXHIBIT A Findings in Support of Ordinance 19726 Amending Section K of Chapter III of the Eugene-Springfield Metropolitan Area General Plan. 1. The Plan amendment is consistent with applicable Statewide Planning Goals. The following are the applicable Statewide Planning Goals: Goal 1 - Citizen Involvement. Goal 1 is intended to ensure that citizens are involved in all stages of the planning process. Citizens have been involved in all stages of the development of these proposed amendments . The following summarizes the major citizen involvement opportunities in the development of the revisions tv Section K of Chapter III of the Eugene-Springfield Metropolitan Area General Plan and demonstrates how the revisions enhance citizen-initiated amendments tv the Plan: 1. In August of 1984, Chapter IV of the Metropolitan Area General Plan was amended to provide far a semi-annual plan amendment process. This process provided that all citizen-initiated amendments, regardless of scope, could be initiated twice each year. 2 . In June of 1987 , the Eugene-Springfield Metropolitan Area General Plan was subject to a semi-annual plan amendment process. During this amendment process, proposed amendments to the Metropolitan Plan were subject to public hearings before the Metropolitan Area Planning Advisory Committee ~MAPAC~ and the planning commissions and governing bodies of the three metropolitan governing bodies. One of the proposed amendments concerned a small-acreage, Plan Diagram change to property located within the corporate limits of Eugene. 3. Following the conclusion of the semi-annual amendment process, elected officials voiced concern over the number of hearings required of a proposed amendment to the Metropolitan Plan. 4. In October of 1988, the Metropolitan Policy Committee ~MPC} directed metropolitan staff to draft changes to the Metropolitan Flan to streamline the plan amendment process. This direction included replacing MAPAC with Exhibit A - 1