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Metro Area Planning Commissions April 20, 2004 Page 2 of 8 .. '. 2025 plan horizon for the Planning for treatment facilities; With these amendments the eomprehesive plan will not be integrated and, in fact, will have inconsistencieS. That's because /he exiting plans have a 2015 planning horizon. A comprehensive plan, by definition, must be coordinated, integrated, and internally consistent. The definition of "comprehensive plan" in ORS 197.015(5) is: "Comprehensive plan" means a generalized, coordinated land use map and policy ' statement of the goveming body of a local government that interrelates all functional and natural systems and activities relating to the use of lands, including but not limited to sewer and water systems, transportation systems, educational facilities, recreational facilities, 'and natural resources and air and water quality management programs. "Comprehensive" means all-inclusive, both in terms of the geographic area covered and functional and natural activities and systems occurring in the area covered by the plan. "General nature'' means a summary of policies and proposals in broad categories and does not necessarily indicate specific locations of any area, activity or use. A plan is "coordinated" when the needs of all levels of governments, semipublic and' private agencies and the citizens of Oregon have been considered and accommodated as much as possible. "Land" includes water, both surface and Subsurface, .and the air.'" A comprehensive plan really can't be "coordinated" in the meaning of the definition if different functional parts of the plan have conflicting planning t/me frames. 3. State statutes regarding public facilities planning, ORS 197.712(2)(e), requires a project list, which is not in the proposed amendments. The statute that sets the stage for public facility plans is ORS 197.712(2)(e). It provides : "A cityor county shall develop and adopt a public facility plan for areas within an urban growth boundary containing a population greater than 2,500 persons. - The public facility plan shall include rough cost estimates for public projects needed to provide sewer, water and transportation for the land uses contemplated in the comprehensive plan and land use regulations. Project firn~ng and financing provisions of public facility plans shall not be considered land use decisions." It is worth noting that the statute anticipates a list of projects. The proposed amendments do not include a list of project. Instead, the amendments would include categories of baskets of projects. Presumably, the individual projects would be worked out administratively. 4. LCDC Rules rela.ting to public facili~ planning. The public facilities· statute and Statewide Planning Goal 11 are implemented through the LCDC's Division 11 Kule - OAK 660-011-0000. 2-7