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M 10 V 010 APPENDIX A PROCEDURE FOR AMENDMENT OF THE GENERAL PLAN 1. Initiation of Amendment. Each local Jurisdiction ( Lane County, Springfield) may i n i t i a t e an amendment to the 1990 General Plan. A proposed amendment shall be referred to the other two juris- dictions by the initiating jurisdiction. The initiating jurisdiction shall conduct public hearings on the pro-posed amendment at both planning commission and governing body level. Local jurisdictions shall have the option of establishing procedures for citizen partici- pation (e.g., referral to neighborhood groups as required by local policy, etc.) 2. Consensus Amendment All three jurisdictions may, but shall not be required to conduct joint or simultaneous hearings. In the event all three planning commissions and all three governing bodies adopt an identical amendment, the Lane Council of Government (hereafter L --COG) Board shall be required to ratify the amendment without further action by any of the jurisdictions. 3. Amendment by Initiatin Jurisdiction. If consensus to amend the Plan in identical as ion is not reached (Step 2) by all three jurisdictions, the governing body of the initiating jurisdiction shl l have the authority to adopt the amendment on behalf of that jurisdiction. Adoption of the amendment would not become final until 30 days after action is taken. 4. Referral of Amendment . Upon action by a local jurisdiction on a proposed amendment, copies thereof shall be forwarded to the other jurisdictions and to the Metropolitan Area Planning Advisory Committee (hereafter MAPAC) , which bodies would have 30 days thereafter to respond to the amendment. Response may be a form of overt concurrence, silences, or dissent. In the event none of the reviewing bodies dissent, the amendment shall immediately be forwarded to the L -COG Board for ratification and inclusion in the metropolitan plan at the expiration of the 30 -day period. In the event of dissent by any of the reviewing bodies, procedures there- after shall be in accordance with paragraphs 5, 6, and 7 hereafter set forth. 5. Action_ on Dissent (First Stage} . . If a local body or MAPAC objects to an amendment adopted by one of the local jurisdictions, it shall so notify the local jurisdiction sponsoring the amendment within the 30-day period. Thereafter the objecting body and the sponsoring local 'Jurisdiction shall schedule a joint meeting for the purpose of discussion of the amendment. such joint meetings shall occur at the planning commission level, the governing body level, or both, A -1