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Treatment 3¥stera" and another new paragraph titled "Conv~ance;" modifying text "Long-term Service Availability within Urbanizable Areas" (page 97) by including the need to apply appropriate engineering design practices for'development.in sensitive areas, and the need for facilities improvements to address. ' dry and wet weather regulatory requirements related to pollutant loads and flows; adding Table 16a (page 101); and adding a new Chapter VI. Amendments to the Plan including descriptions of modifications to existing identified projects which require amendment to the Public Facilities and Services Plan. The preceding amendments are necessary both as information that should have been'.h~cluded when the PFSP was adopted and as a more accurate description of wastewater services that will be available a~er certain capital improvements are made. These amendments also clarify the administrative process involved in the adoption of annual capital improvements plans intended to implement the generally described projects in the PFSP without amending the PFSP to demonstrate this consistency of action. This process already exists between the metro-wide projects in the PFSP and the locally adopted CIP's of the two cities, the county and the special service providers, but without the "codification" provided by these proposed amendments.1 The proposed PFSP amendment process borrows liberally fi.om the existing Metro plan amendment . process for reasons both obvious and practical. However, unlike the Metro Plan, the PFSP is a specialty document that does not always have applicability to other land use issues addressed in the Metro Plan. For this reason a separate amendment process, designed to account for the unique perspective and requh'ements of the PFSP, is proposed. Major adjustments to the PFSP project list, either through addition of wholly new projects or significant modification of existing projects, requires an amendment to the PFSP and is subject to the same criteria and agency participation as amendments to the Metro Plan. This includes the distinction of"home city" if the proposed amendment is entirely within the city limits of one of the two cities. Adoption of CIP's by any of the identified service providers does not require amendment to the PFSP unless those CIP's contain one of the two triggers identified above. In those instances, the PFSP wOUld need to be amended before that particular CIP could be adopted. The proposed amendment process also includes a description of "modifications" that fall outside the requirement to amend the PFSP. These modifications include administrative changes to a project that does not change the location, sizing, capacity or other general characteristics of the project, or technical ' and environmental changes made to a project because of"final engineering." Conclusion All of the proposed amendmen'ts fall into one of three categories: information that should have been included with the December 2001 Public Facilities and Services Plan regarding wastewater facilities; clarification of the relationship between the PFSP project list and locally adopted capital improvement plans; and, administrative and legislative processes governing implementation and amendment of the PFSP projects list. Whether it is Chapter IH-G of the Metro Plan or the various sections of PFSP text that are amended, each of the MWMC proposals is a necessary and felicitous addition to these documents. Attachment 1 demonstrates this ~urther by identify.ing how these proposals satisfy the criteria for Plan amendment in Section 7.030(3)(a&b), Section 9.128(3)(a&b), and Section 12.225(2)(a&b) of Springfield, Eugene and Lane Codes, respectively. Attachments Attachment 1 Analysis and Findings of compliance with the Metro Plan and Statewide Planning Goals. and findings demonstrating internal consistency with the Metro Plan Attachment 2 Springfield Council Agenda Item Summary Initiating this Amendment Attachment 3 Notice of proposed amendment provided to Department of Land Conservation and Development 1 As with all locally adopted CIP's, the MWMC CIP may contain expenditures not related to, or required for, projects in the PFSP projects list. 1-2