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ATTACHMENT A Summary of Buildable Lands Inventory Overview The Eugene Comprehensive Lands Assessment will determine whether Eugene has a sufficient supply of land within the Urban Growth Boundary (UGB) to meet the projected demand for residential, commercial, industrial, and public/semi-public land over the next 20 years. This study addresses House Bill 3337, which directed the City of Eugene to undertake a study of residential lands sufficiency. The scope was expanded by City Council to assess all land types, including employment lands (commercial and industrial) and public/semi-public land needs. A critical component of this analysis is determining the available supply of developable land within the UGB. This analysis has been accomplished through the Buildable Lands Inventory (BLI). The analysis involves developing categories of land and then assigning all lands to one of these categories. Once all of the lands that are considered to be prohibited from development are removed, what remains are the developable lands. These lands can then be utilized to meet the projected demand for land over the next 20 years. Methods Lane Council of Governments (LCOG) performed the analysis necessary to classify all lands within the UGB. Base information was derived from a number of datasets from city, state, and federal sources. The primary building blocks include: tax lots, existing land use, plan designation and information from the regional tax assessor’s database. The primary unit of aggregation for this analysis, as directed by statute, is plan designation. As such, all results are expressed as acreage totals by plan designation. The Community Advisory Committee (CAC) for the project spent several meetings working through the methods, land classification definitions, and constraints that should be included in the analysis. Once this work was completed, LCOG applied the methods and definitions to the data. The CAC then reviewed the data through a series of “map room” sessions where members could review maps and aerial photos and provide comments on the lots that had been identified as either vacant or developed and on the constraints identified. Additional information on characteristics of the land supply and the relevance of the assessor’s database came from real estate appraisal expert John Brown of Evans, Elder & Brown Inc. Information on the extent and proper consideration of constraints came from environmental planning expert Steve Gordon. Both of these individuals also participated in a full review of the vacant and developed lots. All lands within the UGB are categorized into one of four categories: ? Committed Lands – Public lands and other lands with no development or redevelopment potential because they are committed to other uses during the planning period. Examples of these include: City parks o School district property o Utility properties and transmission easements o Transportation rights-of-way o 1