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"Notwithstanding an intergovernmental agreement pursuant to ORS 190.003 to 190.130 or acknowledged comprehensive plan provisions to the contrary, a city within Lane County that has a population of 50,000 or more within its boundaries shall meet its obligation under ORS 197.295 to 197.314 separately from any other city within Lane County. " (ORS 197.304(1)) The adopted UGB population forecast of 286,000 and the adopted planning horizon of 2015 are found in various chapters throughout the text of the Metro Plan, TransPlan and the Public Facilities and Services Plan. This figure and planning horizon date are the result of actions that took place during the 13 years between 1994 and 2007 when Eugene, Springfield and Lane County were complying with the requirements of periodic review of the Metro Plan. The cities must now complete a new set of state - mandated tasks that will result in a number of amendments to the Metro Plan, including new, separate UGBs; new, separate buildable lands inventories; new, separate population forecasts; and a new 20 -year planning horizon. The cities are proceeding with the new population forecast first because the inventories and UGBs must be based on an adopted population forecast (OAR 660- 024 - 0040); neither City has ever had a separate population forecast that matched its municipal authority (city limits and future city limits as represented in the urban transition area). It is not necessary to replace all existing references to the 286,000 population forecast or the 2015 horizon because the proposed amendment references the preemptive language of ORS 197.304 and because the conversion of the Metro Plan to bring it into compliance with the new law will occur over time as work progress (UGBs, inventories, planning horizons, etc.). Existing Metro Plan policies do not foresee the obligations of this new law therefore there are no policies or sections of policies responsive to the changes that must be made to the text of the Metro Plan. See also the preface to Goals compliance on pages 5 and 6 of this report. - Attachments - 1. Copy of Notice of Proposed Amendment sent to Department of Land Conservation and Development on July 16, 2009 specifying the cities of Eugene and Springfield and Lane County were proposing separate population forecasts for each city and urban transition area to be adopted into the Metro Plan 2. August 17, 2009 letter to the Mayors and Administrators of the ten incorporated cities in Lane County, and an August 18, 2009 letter to known interested parties, from the Eugene, Springfield and Lane County planning directors advising that Eugene, Springfield and Lane County were proposing to adopt the County's new, separate population forecasts for each city into the Metro Plan. The initial public hearing on the matter was scheduled for the planning commissions of Eugene, Springfield and Lane County on September 1, 2009 in the Springfield City Hall. The joint elected officials would conduct a subsequent public hearing on September 22, 2009 also in Springfield City Hall. 3. Draft Minutes of the Joint Planning Commission hearing of September 1, 2009 4. September 10, 2009 letter to Mayors and Administrators of the ten incorporated cities in Lane County and known interested parties, from the Springfield Planning Manager on behalf of the Eugene and Lane County Planning Directors, advising of the action taken by the joint planning commissions on September 1, 2009 and notification of the joint elected officials hearing on September 22, 2009 at 6:00 p.m. in the Springfield City Hall. 10