Item 1: Ordinance on Land Use Code Amendments

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EXHIBIT A Findings Downtown Code Amendments (City File CA 09-1) Land Use Application Noticing Requirements (City File CA 09-2) Code Amendment Eugene Code Section 9.8065 requires that the following approval criteria (in bold and italics) be applied to a code amendment: (1) The amendment is consistent with applicable statewide planning goals adopted by the Land Conservation and Development Commission. Goal 1 - Citizen Involvement. To develop a citizen involvement program that insures the opportunity for citizens to be involved in all phases of the planning process. The City has acknowledged provisions for citizen involvement which insure the opportunity for citizens to be involved in all phases of the planning process and set out requirements for such involvement. The action taken did not amend the citizen involvement program. The process for adopting these amendments complied with Goal 1 because it is consistent with the citizen involvement provisions. Furthermore, the proposed amendments to public notice provisions do not formally change current noticing responsibilities, the required content, or who is required to receive such notices. The process to draft the code amendments related to downtown employed significant public involvement opportunities. The need for a comprehensive review of existing downtown zones emerged as part of the initial Downtown Visioning effort in 1999 and was included as an implementation strategy in the Downtown Plan, adopted in April, 2004. In May, 2004 staff introduced the topic of a review of Downtown Area Zoning at the Eugene Planning Commission. Since that time, Planning and Development staff met with the Eugene Planning Commission, the Eugene Redevelopment Advisory Committee, and City Council on multiple occasions, in addition to hosting public workshops. The Planning Commission public hearing on both sets of code amendments was duly noticed to the City of Springfield, Lane County, all neighborhood organizations, as well as community groups and individuals who have requested notice. In addition, notice of the public hearing was also published in the Register Guard. The City Council then held a duly noticed public hearing to consider approval, modification, or denial of the code amendments. These processes afford ample opportunity for citizen involvement consistent with Goal 1. Therefore, the amendments are consistent with Statewide Planning Goal 1. Goal 2 - Land Use Planning. To establish a land use planning process and policy framework as a basis for all decisions and actions related to use of land and to assure an adequate factual basis for such decisions and actions. Findings - 1