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RESOLUTION NO. 5004 A RESOLUTION CONCERNING THE EUGENE COMPREHENSIVE LANDS ASSESSMENT PROJECT’S 20-YEAR NEED DETERMINATION. The City Council of the City of Eugene finds that: A. In 2007, the Oregon Legislature passed House Bill 3337 requiring the City of Eugene establish an urban growth boundary (“UGB”) that does not include the City of Springfield. To do so, the City must first make reasonable estimates of Eugene’s 20-year housing and employment needs, its current buildable land supply (its “inventory”) and amount of development that is likely to occur on that land. The City established the Eugene Comprehensive Land Assessment (“ECLA”) project to make these estimates and determinations. B. On December 9, 2009, the City Council approved Resolution 4994 which accepted ECLA’s draft estimates and determinations, described in A., above. That Resolution stated that the City Council intended to review and refine those materials in April, 2010. C. As directed by the City Council, since December, 2009, City staff has worked closely with an ECLA Community Advisory Committee to address key issues concerning the draft documents accepted by the City Council by Resolution No. 4994. D. The ECLA project has now completed its analysis of the City’s: (1) buildable lands inventory; (2) housing needs; (3) economic needs; and (4) needs for public and semi- public land. The results of this analysis are contained in the Executive Summary, attached as Exhibit A to this resolution. At the time the City Council takes final action to establish its new UGB, the Council will be asked to adopt a comprehensive Buildable Lands Inventory, Housing Needs Analysis, Economic Opportunities Analysis and Public and Semi-Public Land Needs Analysis. E. The land need determination in the Executive Summary, attached as Exhibit A to this resolution, represents a reasonable estimate of Eugene’s land need in acres if there were no changes to the assumptions in Exhibit A, policies or program areas that would affect the need for residential or employment lands. Changes to development regulations, assumptions, market responses, and other factors will be considered as the City takes steps, through the “Envision Eugene” project, to identify the ways in which its 20-year needs will be accommodated. F. Based on Oregon laws, rules and judicial orders, the City is prohibited from adopting the supply and demand information until the City can also demonstrate that its new, Eugene-only UGB will contain sufficient land to accommodate the identified 20-year needs. Therefore, the City Council’s adoption of this resolution, simply “accepting” the conclusions of the ECLA project, is an interim step in the longer process of adopting a new, Eugene-only UGB. Resolution - Page 1 of 2