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ATTACHMENT 5 — B. 114TRODUCITON TO THE COUNTY POLICIES COMPONENT OF THE GENERAL PLAN County Policies are broad, somewhat generalized statements that provide direction to County decision makers in their efforts to choose between competing uses for given resources, and in their efforts to solve historic problems and prevent new ones from occurring. The Policies cover complex topics and lay the groundwork for future actions of various kinds. The Policies expressed here apply to rural Lane County, outside of the Urban Growth Boundaries of cities and beyond the Plan Diagram Boundary of the Eugene-Springfield Metropolitan Area General Plan. They are designed to be compatible with similar Policies —and planning efforts_-of other governmental jurisdictions in the County. In some respects, the Policies can be considered the basis of the County plan, in that they provide the lead, or the general direction, for subsequent County actions to deal with various land use and resource management decisions. In doing so, they are directly intended to fulfill the mandate of the I.CDC statewide planning Goals. Four statewide pknning Goals are not addressed in this document: the four "Coastal Goals" (LCDC Goals 16.19). These, and Policies connected with them, are located in a special- purpose Coastal Resource Ma_ nagement Plan developed and adopted for use in the Coastal portion of the County. They should be used in concert with the "basic fifteen" Goats. Since they are special- purpose in nature, and deal more specifically with particular concerns of the Coastal area, conflicts may arise or be generated between the Coastal Policies and the "basic fifteen" and should be resolved in favor of the Coastal Policies until, and if one or the other conflicting statement is changed to eliminate the conflict The Willamette Greemvay Goal is considered to be part of the "basic fifteen ". G HISTORY OF THE POLICIES DOCUMENT The Policies contained in this document were developed during a period of more than a year, beginning in early 1983. A process was devised at the beginning of the period to utilize existing working papers and to prepare a series of new working papers which, along with other sources, were to serve as the technical data based for the Policies. The Working Papers were written and published from mid -1981 to early 1984. Each Working Paper contained information on a given topic or topics, and a number of them contained pr eliminary Policies which were drawn from the information in the Papers and which were presented for initial discussion purposes. Hearings were held on the Papers as they were published. Each Planning Conn nission reported to the Board of County Commissioners containing its reaction to the Paper and draft Policies. Often the Polity statements drew on sources other than the Working Papers — existing County Plan information (such as special- purpose plans or technical studies),comme nts or testimony of individual's or groups appearing at the hearings, the judgment and views of Planning Commission members and so on —and so represented a broad array of perspectives and attitudes.. Each Planning Page 3 ATTACHMENT �`