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ATTACHMENT A AGENDA COVER MEMO DATE: February 25, 2009 March 3, 2009 JEO Meeting Date TO: JOINT ELECTED OFFICIALS OF EUGENE, SPRINGFIELD AND LANE COUNTY FROM : KENT HOWE, LANE COUNTY PLANNING DIRECTOR LISA GARDNER, EUGENE PLANNING DIRECTOR GREG MOTT, SPRINGFIELD PLANNING DIRECTOR AGENDA ITEM TITLE: History of The Eugene-Springfield Metropolitan Area General Plan I. ISSUE The JEO has requested a work session on the Eugene-Springfield Metropolitan Area General Plan (Metro Plan). II. DISCUSSION A. BACKGROUND This memorandum provides a brief history of the Eugene-Springfield Metropolitan Area General Plan (Metro Plan), illustrates its function and demonstrates how the Metro Plan has served the metropolitan area land use planning partners. The information is intended to provide the Joint Elected Officials with a factual basis on which to begin a high level discussion that may set the stage for future meetings with the Metro Plan partners. The cities are responsible for the planning and development of the lands within the City Limits. Each city shares responsibility with Lane County for developing the land use policy that governs the areas outside the City Limits. The area of overlapping jurisdiction is the “edge” or fringe area outside the City Limits and inside the Urban Growth Boundary (UGB). Citizens in the unincorporated areas are represented by the Board of Commissioners, not the City Council. The county delegated its administrative authority for processing planning and building permits to each of the two cities, respectively, within the UGB upon the adoption and signing of the Urban Transition Agreements (UTAs) in 1986-87. The UTAs limited Lane County’s administrative responsibility for planning and building permit processing to the area outside the UGB. However, just as the cities are responsible for approving the urban development within their city limits, the County retains its role and responsibility in joint 1