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ATTACHMENT A To: The Elected Officials of Springfield, Eugene and Lane County From: Gregory Mott,~nning Manager, Commumty Planning and Revitalization Date: June 4, 2004 Amendments to the Public Facilities and Services Element of the Metropolitan Plan and to Subject: the Public Facilities and Services Plan . Issue The Public Facilities Element of the Metropolitan Plan and the Public Facilities and Services Plan, a functional plan of the Metro/olitan Plan, are proposed for amendment as follows: 1. Identify each of the regional wastewater treatment facilities on appropriate maps and tables in the PFSP; 2. Define wastewater service as collection and treatment in the ~/~etro Plan and the PFSP; 3. Add a new policy in the ldetro Plan that obligates the area's conveyance and treatment systems to accommodate projected growth within the UGB and achieve compliance with all regulatory standards; 4. Add new text in the PFSP regarding the Wastewater System Condition Assessment; and $. Add a new amendment process to the P?SP. The above information does not appear in the Metro Plan or PFSP but, with the exception of the proposed amendment process, is required to be included in public facilities plans by the provisions of Oregon Administrative Rules Chapter 660 Division 11 Public Facilities Planning. Background The staffs' of the Metropolitan Wastewater Management Commission and the City of Springfield brought these amendments to the Springfield City Council on February 17, 2004 for initiation of Metro Plan and PFSP amendment, pursuant to S£ringfield Development Code, Article 7 Metro Plan Amendments. The Council was informed that several wastewater treatment facility projects were necessary to provide required capacity to meet water quality discharge, residuals disposal and reuse standards consistent with planned growth and federal and state requirements for the area's wastewater systems. These projects were not in the 2001 update of the P?SP because past practice dictated that the only components of the wastewater systems identified in the PFSP were pump stations and p~pes larger than 2 . Any expansion, improvement or additions to the main treatment plant or other treatment sites were approved through the capital improvement programming of MWlVlC. Although OAR recognize and exempt local capital improvement planning from the requirements of Division 11, there is no such exemption for the identification, location, timing and rough cost estimates of public facilities, including the "Treatment facilities system." (See OAR 660-011-0005 and 0010) Discussion The proposed amendments are primarily housekeeping in that they are necessary (read mandated) additions to the content of the PFSP. However, the importance of this amendment action should not be minimized by this term. The existing PFSP only identifies some parts of the primary collection system and nothing about the treatment facilities system. The definition of"Sanitary Sewer" in OAR 660, Division 11, is: "Treatment facilities system and Primary collection system." The inclusion of new Tables 4a, 4b and 16a, and Maps 2 and 2a are specifically intended to correct this omission in the PFSP (see Appendix B, page 1, 2 and 4 of the staff report packet, Attachment 1). The degree of detail or specificity this information is required to provide is also described in the OAR: "The public facility plan shall identi~ significant public facility projects which are to support the land uses designated in the acknowledged comprehensive plan. The