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Metro Area Planning Commissions April 20, 2004 Page 3 of 7 (a) Contents of"public facility plan." OAR 660-011-0010 defines the contents of a public facility plan. The definition is: "(1) The public facility plan shall contain the following items: (a) An inventory and general assessment of the condition of all the significant public facility systems which support the land uses designated in the acknowledged comprehensive plan; Co) A list of the significant public facility projects which are to support the land uses designated in the acknowledged comprehensive plah. Public facility project descriptions or specifications of these projects as necessary; (c) Rough cost estimates of each public facility project; (d) A map or written description of each public facility project's general location or service area; (e) Policy statement(s) or urban growth management agreement identifying the provider of each public facility system. If there is more than one provider with the authority to. provide the system within the area covered by the public facility plan, then the provider of each project shall be designated; (0 An estimate of when each facility project will be needed; and (g) A discussion of the provider's existing funding mechanisms and the ability of these and possible new mechanisms to fund the development of each public facility project or system." The proposal is to bolster the existing PFSP to include the required components for the area's wastewater treatment system. The amendments made should be double checked against the required list of contents above. At first glance, it would appear that the proposed amendments fall short of meeting the minimum required contents in the following respects: 1. The amendments need to include an inventory and general assessment of the condition of all the significant aspects of the wastewater treatment system. The required evaluative information is missing. OAR 660-011-0010(1)(a). 2. A "list of significant public facility projects" needed to support the land uses designated in the Metro Plan'is needed. OAR 660-011-0010(1)C0). No project list is. proposed for the plan. Instead, categories of projects are proposed. This obfuscates the ultimate policy choices that Goal 2 and Goal 11 require to be reflected in the plan. Furthermore, the projects are to support the land use designations in the plan. Those designations have a 2015 planning horizon. The proposal is to designate projects for a longer timeframe, which would violate this rule. 3. Cost estimates need to be by project, not by categories of projects. OAR 660-011- 0010(1)(c). · 2-3