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ORDINANCE NO AN - ORDINANCE ADOPTING THE METROPOLITAN AREA GENERAL P LAN AS AN UPDATE of THE EUGENE- SPRINGFIELD-METROPOLITAN ARE 1990 GENERAL PLAN; AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY". The City Council of the City of Eugene finds that The Eugene - Springfield Metropolitan Area 1990 General Plan, originally adopted- by the Eugene Council on March 27, 1972, has served since that time as the basic land use planning guide for the metropolitan area. Goal 2 of the Statewide Planning Goals and Guidelines, as well as the 1990 Plan provides for periodic re-- evalu - ations and possible updates of such plans. In response to changing circumstances,, and in -an effort to comply with all applicable provisions of Oregon Revised Statutes and the Statewide Planning Goals adopted -by the Lane'Conservation and Development Commission, the City of Eugene ' has , since 19 7 6 , ac- tively participated in an update of the 1990 General Plan. The updated Metropolitan Area 'General Plan is a result of those efforts, On February 11, .1977, th.e Oregon Land, Conservation and Develop- ment Commission acknowledged Eugene as being in compliance with the Statewide Planning Goals within its corporate limits. Excepted from that action was acknowledgment of an urban growth boundary. That exception has been addressed in the updated Metropolitan Area Gen- eral Plan, which also includes text and diagram designations per- taining to the urbani table area outside the City but within the urban growth boundary. In preparing the updated Metropolitan Area General Plan, con-- sideration was given to existing and projected Conditions in order Ordinance - 1