Item A: Ordinance Adopting New PROS Comprehensive Plan

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intended to comply with state statutory system development charge (SDC) requirements set forth at ORS 223.304 and ORS 223.209. If the project list required by ORS 223.309 were to be included in the PROS Comprehensive Plan, it would, by its location in the PROS Comprehensive Plan, be adopted as a land use decision. This would mean that the project list would be subjected to the land use plan amendment process every time the City Council wanted to change the priority of a proposed project because of funding opportunities or demographic changes. So that the City Council can avoid having to go through the land use process every time that it wants to amend the project list, the City Council is being presented with the PROS Projects and Priority Plan (which includes the project list) separately from the PROS Comprehensive Plan. The Projects and Priority Plan is proposed for adoption by City Council resolution. Although a public hearing is not legally required for this process, one will be held to ensure that the PROS Project and Priority Plan is reflective of the community input that was collected over the last several years. This public hearing is scheduled for March 13, 2006. Amendments to the PROS Project and Priority Plan will be made by City 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. A number of public hearing participants directed their public testimony at park and open space services in the Santa Clara area. Much of this testimony was based on Table B-2 (attached to this AIS as Attachment C), which established a baseline of the parks and open space inventory as of June 2004. This table only reflects the parks and open space inventory as of June 2004; it does not reflect any intended future actions in the planning areas. The strategies for the enhancement of parks and open space in all of the planning areas, including Santa Clara, are described in Chapter 4 of the PROS Comprehensive Plan. For council reference, a map of existing park and school service areas in the Santa Clara area is attached to this AIS as Attachment D. Additionally, a Santa Clara Park Update Memorandum, prepared for the council in November 2005, is attached to this AIS as Attachment E. RELATED CITY POLICIES The PROS Comprehensive Plan will replace the Eugene Parks and Recreation Plan, which was adopted by the Council in 1989 as a refinement to the Metro Plan. COUNCIL OPTIONS A. Adopt the proposed ordinance that repeals the 1989 plan and replaces it with the PROS Comprehensive Plan as a refinement to the Eugene-Springfield Metropolitan Area General Plan, amends Section 9.8010 of the Eugene Code and repeals Section 9.9550 of the Eugene Code. B. Direct the City Manager to split the proposed ordinance into two documents: 1) an ordinance that repeals the 1989 plan; and, 2) a resolution that adopts the PROS Comprehensive Plan as a stand- alone internal document, i.e., not as a refinement to the Metro Plan. L:\CMO\2006 Council Agendas\M060118\S060118A.DOC