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AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY Meeting Date: February 17, 2004 Meeting Type~ Work/Regular ' ' Department: Pub. Works/Dev. Serv. Staff Contact: Susie Smith/Greg Mort S P R I N G F I E L D StaffPhone No: · 726-3697/726-3774 C I T Y C O U N C I L Estimated Time: 15 ra~utes/Conseat Cal. ITEM TITLE:' COUNCIL INITIATION OF AMENDMENTS TO THE EUGENE-SPRINGFIELD METROPOLITAN AREA GENERAL PLAN (METRO PLAN) AND THE PUBLIC FACILITIES AND SERVICES PLAN (PFSP). ACTION Review staff's request to initiate amendments to the Metro Plan and PFSP during the REQUESTED: Work Session and initiate the amendment process during the Regular Session. ISSUE Amendments to the Metro Plan - Public Facilities and Services Element, and to the STATEMENT: PFSP, are needed to: 1) clarify the relationship between, and the types of facilities projects included in, the PFSP and local capital improvement plans (CIPs); 2) update the PFSP maps based on new statutes; 3) reflect current conditions and planned regional wastewater facilities consistent with the MWMC Facilities Master Plan Update currently under way; and 4) resolve inconsistencies among metro-wide planning documents. ATTACI~M_ENTS None. DISCUSSION/ The PFSP includes inventories, condition assessments, project lists and policies for key . FINANCIAL urban public facilities, including wastewater collection and treatment. Since the IMPACT: inception of these metro-wide comprehensive plans, the wastewater facilities included in the project lists have been limited to pump stations and 24" or larger pipes. Capital improv.ements to the regional wastewater treatment facilities have been addressed only through the MetropOlitan Wastewater Management Commission (MWMC) CIP process. The PFSP was updated in 2001 as part of the Metro Plan periodic review process. It contains a condition and capacity assessment of the regional wastewater treatment facilities based on the infonnation available at that time. The text references two areas of constrained capacity and the planned work to resolve them. Consistent with past practice, no wastewater treatment facility projects were included in the PFSP project list. An updated MWMC Facilities Master Plan, which will update the information in the PFSP, is nearly complete. The Facilities Master Plan identifies a list of projects that will need to be constructed over the next ten years in ordei' tO comply with the wastewater' · discharge permit issued in 2002 and with additional peak wet weather flow management requirements, as well as to provide adequate capacity through 2025. Local and regional wastewater program and planning staff, along with legal counsel, have concluded that several amendments to the Metro Plan and PFSP are advisable. The amendments would result in updated wastewater system text, and clarification of the definitions of PFSP-included projects vs. projects included in local CIPs only. The amendments also would ensure that all of the meecropolitan planning documents provide a consistent and legal framework for developing both regional wastewater Facilities Master Plan projects and city infrastructure projects not currently addressed in the PFSP. The types of Metro Plan and PFSP amendments contemplated are defined by the Metro Plan as "Type II" amendments, which must be initiated by one of the three governing bodies. Expeditious review of the amendments will be critical to timely design and construction of neWly identified regional wastewater facilities, which is slated to begin in fiscal year 2004-2005. The metropolitan area Planning 'Directors reviewed this matter on January 27m and have tentatively scheduled a Joint Planning Commission public hearing for April 13, 2004, pending formal initiation. Development of the amendment language is currently under way, and will be provided to the City Council for review and comment prior to the Planning Commission public hearing. 1-41