Item A: Ordinance Adopting New PROS Comprehensive Plan

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Eugene City Council December 12, 2005 Page 20f2 The City is refusing to identify the impact of its park plan on the inventory of developable residentialland~ Staff has explained to the Planning Commission that there is no need to do this because the plan has no regulatory effect; it is the implementation that debits the residential land supply. This is a fiction, which rests on the city's failure to include projects ill the plan itself. The reality is that the city is on a parkland buying spree. III the past several years it has bought about 182 acres ofResidential1and for parks (other than neighborhood parks). See Exhibit A. Buying Residential land for parks is good, provided the residential land is replaced. The city is extending its park planning into rural Lane County, witbout the concurrence of the county, and without jurisdiction, This covvboy attitude win generate confusion and litigation. (What would the City say if Lane County did parks planning inside the City?) The City already owns and operates city parks in rural Lane County without cOlmty land use approval. In recent years it has acquired another 200+ acres of county resource land fix city park use. See Exhibit A.vV.hen the Wil1amalane District induded county land in its new parks plan, it had the county coadopt the plan. \-Vhy is the City adverse to this jurisdiction and coordination issue? \-Vhat would it be like Ii)r the City to secure county land use approvals for the parks it already operates in Lane County, and then seek concurrence with the County for any parks plmming it thinks must be done in the county? The City has a lot of professional staff and volunteer resources invested in this plan. The higher the plan has risen in the decision making process, the more content has been pulled out of it, and the fmther the product has strayed from \vhat land use laws require~ The City should take a short time out and be sure that: (1) the City plans only what it has authority to plan; and (2) the plan contains what state and local law require it to contain - policies, maps and projects. Thank you for your consideration. ,) //} / .p /'~2~/L~/~' Ene!. Ex. A: City park acquisition data C: Roxie Cuellar, Home Builders Anna Morrison, Lane County Board of Commissioners