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EXHIBIT A Findings in Support of ordinance 1977 Amending Chapter IV of the Eugene-Springfield Metropolitan Area General Plan. i. 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 to Chapter IV of the Eugene-Springfield Metropolitan Area General Plan and demonstrates how the revisions enhance citizen-initiated amendments to the Plan: 1. In August of 1984, Chapter IV of the Metropolitan Area General Plan was amended to provide for 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 the 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. Dne 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 or a proposed amendment and the time limitation upon the initiation of small--scale, citizen- initiated amendments. 4. In october of 1988, the Metropolitan Policy Committee ~MPC~ directed metropolitan staff to draft changes to Chapter IV of the Metropolitan Plan to streamline the plan amendment process. Exhibit A - 1