Item A: Ordinance Adopting New PROS Comprehensive Plan

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ATTACHMENT B Response to Comments and Questions from December 12, 2005 Public Hearing Public Hearing Testimony: 1.Roxie Cuellar, Home Builders Association of Lane County/ Home Builders Construction Company, testimony (December 12, 2005) states that the Home Builders do not support the PROS Plan. The project list and accompanying maps have been removed from the PROS Plan. This enables staff to promote a legal fiction that because it’s only a plan, it will have no impact on the buildable lands inventory. With the acquisition of 1,600 acres of additional park land, there will be an impact on the inventory. Staff Response: An earlier draft of the PROS Plan included a detailed project list. That project list was (and is) intended to comply with state statutory system development charge (SDC) requirements set forth at ORS 223.304 and ORS 223.209. In order to preserve the necessary flexibility of the project list, the list was separated from the PROS Comprehensive Plan and will be presented to the City Council for adoption as part of the PROS Project and Priority Plan. The PROS Projects and Priority Plan identifies projects and suggested priorities, and is based on input from thousands of Eugene residents. By nature, the PROS Projects and Priority Plan needs to be flexible to allow the City Council to address shifting priorities and so that the City Council can respond to funding opportunities, and changing community trends and needs. To ensure that the Project and Priority Plan is reflective of the community input which was collected over the last several years, there will be a public hearing associated with the Council action to adopt the Project and Priority Plan by Resolution. This public hearing is scheduled for March 13, 2006. Amendments to the PROS Project and Priority Plan will be made by Council Resolution. Whether or not a public hearing is held on a proposed amendment will be a Council decision. The project list will be required to be updated each time the SDC methodology is updated. This process includes public hearings and occurs approximately every five years. Another opportunity for amending the project list may occur with the annual budget process. This process also includes public hearings. Attachment B January 18, 2006 Page 1