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ATTACHMENT 4 — SPRINGFIELD 1A t OREGON � Jr4 [ vC�cATI` September 10, 2009 EUGENE Subject: Proposed amendment to the Eugene - Springfield Metropolitan Area Genial Plan (Metro Plan) adopting coordinated population forecasts prepared by Lane County for Eugene and Springfield. To All Interested Parties', On August 17, 2009 you received a letter from the planning directors of Eugene, Springfield and Lane County that included a statement of intent to amend the Metro Plan to add new population forecasts for each city; a copy of the proposed text that would be included in Chapter L Introduction and Purpose Section of the Metro Plan; and the time, date and location of joint public hearings before the planning commissions and the elected officials of Eugene, Springfield and Lane County to hear testimony on this proposed amendment. This letter is intended to inform you that the joint planning commissions conducted a hearing on September 1, 2009 and at the conclusion of that hearing recommended that the elected officials adopt revised text and forecast table that includes the years 2031, 2032, 2033 and 2034. The full text is attached to this letter. Please be advised that the information you received on August 17 did not include a break -out of the years between 2030 and 2035; the text you received said: "In the event either city needs to provide a forecast for a planning period that begins after 2010 that city shall detennine the 20- year forecast by adding 20%- the 2030 -2035 increment for each year beyond 2010." The planning commission, and public were concerned that this text could be interpreted in a way not intended and thereby bring about subsequent amendments to the Plan inconsistent with the purpose of this language. The staff prepared alternative language prior to the hearing that assigned population figures for each of the years between 2030 and 2035 so that any required 20- year planning period that ended in one of these years would already have an associated forecast; additionally, the text cited above was deleted. For your information, the new figures for each of these years were derived by a linear extrapolation of the period between the adopted figures of 2030 and 2035, that is, each succeeding year's population increases by the same number as the preceding year. The consultants who prepared the Lane County coordinated population forecast confirmed that such an extapolation is a reasonable approach in forecasting the population for these years. The addition of these years with these figures has no effect on the forecast figures for the other cities in Lane County or the rural population forecast because the population figures adopted for 2030 ATTACHMENT /-I --?