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Exhibit B FINDINGS OF CONSISTENCY Metro Plan Amendment Criteria Criteria to be used to evaluate amendments to the Eugene-Springfield Regional Transportation System Plan (TransPlan) and the Eugene-Springfield Metropolitan Area General Plan (Metro Plan) are found in Eugene Code Section 9.7730(3): (a)The amendment must be consistent with the relevant Statewide Planning Goals adopted by the Land Conservation and Development Commission; and (b)Adoption of the amendment must not make the Metro Plan internally inconsistent. This application involves amending the project lists in TransPlanand the Metro Plan by moving two projects from the “Future” project list to the “Financially Constrained” project list (“the amendments”). The process for making the amendments to TransPlan, a special purpose functional plan,and the Metro Planare identical; requiring the City to follow the “Type II” amendment process. To become effective, only the City needs to approve the amendments. Background The City Council held work sessions on September 25, 2006 and October 9, 2006 to discuss transportation priorities in north and west Eugene. At the second work session, the Council passed motions regarding transportation project priorities to identify the Beltline Corridor from River Road to Coburg Road as the City’s top priority for funding in the Statewide Transportation Improvement Program (STIP), West 11th Avenue from Terry Street to Greenhill Road as its second priority, and a study of the Beltline Corridor from Roosevelt Boulevard to West 11th Avenue as a third priority for funding in the STIP. On November 8, 2007, the MPC adopted an update to the federally-required Regional Transportation Plan (RTP); the update included deleting from the RTP all projects related to the WEP and moving four ODOT facilities projects from the Illustrative Roadway Projects list to the Financially Constrained Roadway Projects list (the four projects included two Springfield projects, the West 11th Ave. from Terry to Greenhill project and the Beltline Hwy from River Road to Delta Highway project). On August 13, 2008, the Eugene City Council initiated TransPlan and Metro Plan amendments to move two projects from the Future Roadway Projects list to the Financially Constrained Roadway Projects list in TransPlan: W. 11th Avenue from Greenhill Road to Terry Street, and Beltline Highway from River Road to Delta Highway. Specifically, the City Council passed the following motion: I move to initiate a TransPlan amendment to delete the West Eugene Parkway from the project list and plan as part of the short-term amendments and to add the two ODOT facility projects into the “Constrained” project list, which are the West 11th Avenue from Terry to Greenhill and the Beltline Highway from River Road to Delta Highway. 1