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<br /> <br /> <br /> <br />Sustainability is our capacity as a community to grow and change, to more deeply <br />understand the inter-relationships of our human, economic, and natural systems, <br />and to make the decisions today that ensure our viability and resilience for <br />tomorrow. <br />The Lane Livability Consortium <br /> <br />Purpose Statement <br />To build upon our successes and to develop a regional investment strategy for our region by <br />developing expertise, tools, and processes that will be implemented to enhance livability, <br />ensure social equity, and build a healthy local economy as integrated and efficient systems <br />within the following key program areas. <br /> <br />The Lane Livability Consortium Climate Change and Public Health <br /> <br /> <br />Equitable and Inclusive Public Engagement Strategic Infrastructure Investments <br /> <br /> <br />Integration of Housing/Economic Capacity Building <br /> <br /> <br />Development/Transportation; <br /> <br />Background <br />Since 1973, Oregon has maintained a strong statewide program for land use planning. The <br />foundation of that program is a set of 19 Statewide Planning Goals that express the state's <br />approach on issues ranging from Citizen Involvement, Agricultural and Forest Lands, to <br />Economic Development, Housing, and Transportation. Other pertinent Statewide Planning <br />Goals address Natural Resources, Scenic and Historic Areas, and Open Spaces; Air, Water and <br />Land Resources Quality; and Energy Conservation. <br />In the Eugene-Springfield metropolitan area, the Eugene-Springfield Metropolitan Area General <br />Plan, or Metro Plan, has been developed in accordance with the statewide planning goals and <br />is the basic guiding land use policy document, providing an overall framework supplemented by <br />more detailed refinement plans, programs, and policies. While the Metro Plan has successfully <br />served the region for the last 30 years, Eugene, Springfield and Lane County are now embarking <br />on a new era in planning that will enable the cities to exercise more individual control over local <br />matters while maintaining critical regional governance partnerships. This local effort occurs <br />within the evolution of the larger planning discipline to recognize the importance of <br />regionalization, social equity issues, and economics. As Eugene, Springfield, and Lane County <br />work to make government function more efficiently and chart their own common and <br />independent futures, they also continue to recognize the value of collaboration, and to develop <br />a regional investment strategy to more fully evaluate the implications of human development <br />on the local landscape. In order to assure that our planning documents fully meet the needs of <br />a regional plan for sustainable development, this project will address two types of gaps in the <br />current Metro Plan: process-related gaps and planning content gaps. The first goal will be to <br />Lane Livability Consortium 1 <br />