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(5~ 'Carefully develop sites that provide visual diversity to the urban area and t' optimise their visual and personal accessibility to residents. (fi) "Local jurisdictions shall carefully evaluate their development regulations to ensure that they adequately account for environmental design considerations, such as but not limited to site planning and landscaping of developments." A portion of the subject property is located on Stewart Road Knoll, which rises about 50 feet above the surrounding level land. Commercial development of the subject property would require i ess rnodi f i cati an of the site ` s existing features than would industrial land uses, as i ndustri a1 site preparation would mast likely involve more extensive earth moving. Commercial zoning with provisions far site review would f aci 1 i tote maintenance of the site's natural features more effectively than the present industrial designation . Therefore, approval of the amendment promotes the intent of Environmental Qesign policies ~, 4, 5 and 6. 3. The Plan amendment is found to address one or more of the following: ~a) An error in the publication of the Plan; or ~b~ Circumstances have changed in a substantial manner that was not anticipated in the Plan; or ~c) l ncorporation into the Plan, fallowing acknowledgement, of newly- inventoried material which relates to a Statewide Planning Goal; ar (d~ A change in public policy. The request addresses item 3(b). ~b~ There have been two changes in circumstance since Plan adoption which justify the amendment: a demonstrated lack of commercially designated land and a more-than~-adequate supply of industrial land; and the future construction of two major road improvements in the vicinity. As stated earlier in these findings, studies camp1eted since Metro Plan adoption indicate a relative shortage of commercial land in the metro area compared to the industrial 1 and supply. This i s a substanti a1 change of circumstances which was not anticipated in the Metro Plan, as the original land allocations were assumed to be adequate to meet expected demand. As cited in the Metropolitan Area General Plan Technical Supplement Page 16~, it was assumed that 7$0 additional acres of commercial land was needed to meet anticipated commercial demand for a metro area population of 295,700. Almost one quarter ~23~~ of these acres were allocated to neighborhood commercial uses and commercial developments associated with special light industrial sites. Since there has been little neighborhood commercial and special light industrial development taking place since Plan adoption in 19$2, this has acted to concentrate commercial land demand on the remaining commercially designated acreage. Approval of this request would address the proven need for additional commercial land in the metro .area, while making a relatively insignificant subtraction from the adequate industrial land base. Two major road improvements are planned for the vicinity of the amendment: construction of the west Eugene Parkway, and enlarging Bailey Hill Road to 5 lanes. The applicant states that this potential for