Item 3: Ordinance on Lane Memorial Metro Plan and Refinement Plan Amendment

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I. Historic Preservation Element The changes proposed by this application will have no impact on any historic resource that has been inventoried and designated by the Metro Plan or any relevant facility plan or inventory regarding the City’s historic resources. With regard to the Historic Preservation Element of the Metro Plan, the City can find that the proposed amendment will not make the Metro Plan internally inconsistent. K. Citizen Involvement Element Continue to develop, maintain, and refine programs and procedures that maximize the opportunity for meaningful, ongoing citizen involvement in the community’s planning and planning implementation processes consistent with mandatory statewide planning standards. (Goal 1) As noted in applicant’s findings regarding Statewide Planning Goal 1 -- Citizen Involvement, the City’s acknowledged program for citizen involvement provides citizens the opportunity to review and make recommendations in written and oral testimony on the proposed amendment, consistent with Goal 1. The action proposed is consistent with and does not amend the citizen involvement element of the Metro Plan. Based on the findings above, the proposal will not make the Metro Plan internally inconsistent, as required. Zone Change (Z 09-1) The applicant proposes to add the /SR Site Review overlay zone to the subject property, which consists of the southernmost 28.46 acres of the 79.28 Lane Memorial Gardens Cemetery. The subject property is currently zoned R-1/CAS Low Density Residential with the Commercial Airport Safety overlay. If approved, the zoning of the property would be R-1/SR/CAS Low Density Residential with the Site Review overlay and Commercial Airport Safety overlay. The applicant is requesting the /SR overlay to show compliance with Goal 5 requirements as part of the concurrent Metro Plan designation change (City file MA 08-2) which requests the Metro Plan designation be changed from Parks and Open Space to Low Density Residential including an automatic refinement plan amendment to the Willow Creek Special Area Study, to change designation from Open Space to Low Density Residential. The applicant has requested the /SR overlay zone be applied only if the Metro Plan amendment is approved and if it is found to be required for Goal 5 compliance. As discussed further below, application of the /SR overlay is not necessary in this instance. EC 9.8865 requires that the zone change request meets the following approval criteria (listed in bold and italic). Findings are provided below with respect to each of the applicable criteria. (1) The proposed change is consistent with applicable provisions of the Metro Plan. The written text of the Metro Plan shall take precedence over the Metro Plan diagram where Findings – Lane Memorial Gardens (MA 08-1and Z 09-1) Page 17