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ORDINANCE NO, 19575 <br />AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING THE INSTITUTION OF PROCEEDINGS <br />IN EMINENT DOMAIN FOR THE ACQUISITION BY CONDEMNATION <br />OF REAL AND PERSONAL PROPERTY USED FOR RENDERING <br />ELECTRICAL UTILITY SERVICE AND PRIMARILY LOCATED IN THE <br />WILLOW CREEK AREA, AND OWNED BY LANE ELECTRIC <br />COOPERATIVE, INC, AND/OR LANE COUNTY ELECTRIC <br />COOPERATIVE, INC. <br />The City Council of the City of Eugene finds that: <br />1. The City of Eugene has authority under both the Eugene <br />Charter and applicable state law to institute proceedings in <br />eminent domain far the acquisition by condemnation of real and <br />personal property far public purposes, including for the <br />improvement and expansion of the City of Eugene's electrical <br />distribution systems and the reallocation of electric utility <br />service areas. <br />2. Management of the growth of the City of Eugene is <br />guided ,in the first instance by the Metropolitan Area General <br />Plan Metro Plan, a land use comprehensive plan. The Metro Plan <br />requires the City to take steps to assure that the Eugene Water & <br />Electric Board is the provider of electrical utility service <br />within the urban growth boundary. The Metro Plan also requires <br />the City to make electrical service available to designated <br />special light industrial tracts in the Willow Creek area within <br />the urban growth boundary. The orderly and economic provision of <br />electrical service to this area is necessary to implement state <br />law as refined in the Metro Plan. The provision of such service <br />is necessary far the economic well-being of citizens of the City <br />of Eugene. The Metro Plan contains the fallowing policies <br />relevant to the provision of electrical service in the Willow <br />Creek area:. <br />a. Fundamental Principle No. 6 states that the <br />Metro Plan 'pis based on the premise that Eugene and <br />Springfield . are the logical providers of services <br />accommodating urban levels of development within the <br />urban growth boundary." Metro Plan, p. II-1.~ <br />b. Growth Management Element Policy No. 16 <br />commands that, "Eugene and Springfield and their <br />respective utility branches, Eugene Water and Electric <br />Board and Springfield Utility Board, shall be the water <br />and electrical service providers within the urban <br />growth boundary." Metro Plan, p. II-B-6.~ <br />c. Economic Element Policies Nas. 6, 17, 2l, and <br />Ordinance - l <br />