Item 1: Metro Plan Boundary Adjustment - Springfield

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Exhibit E Finding 32: This proposal is a Type I Metro Plan amendment initiated by the Lane County Board of Commissioners, and therefore consistent with this criteria per (1)(a) above. (b) Type II Plan Diagram and Site Specific Text Amendments. (i) Inside the City limits: The Home City and citizens (ii) Between the City limits and the Plan Boundary: Any of the three governing bodies and citizens. (A) The Board may solicit a recommendation from the planning commission before initiating this category of amendment. A citizen initiating a Metro Plan Type II amendment must own the property subject to the amendment. (B) A citizen may seek Board initiation of a Metro Plan Type II amendment subject to the above requirements regarding Metro Plan Type I amendments initiated by the Board at the request of a citizen. Finding 33: This proposal is not a Type II amendment, therefore this criteria is not applicable. (2) When Plan Amendments Can be Initiated. Amendments to the Metro Plan shall be initiated and considered at the following times: (a) The Board may initiate a Type I or Type II Metro Plan amendment at any time. Consideration of this type of amendment shall begin immediately thereafter. Finding 34: The BCC directed LMD staff to initiate a Type I Metro Plan amendment as a high priority item in the adopted 2011 Long Range Planning Program. (b) Citizen initiated Type II Metro Plan amendments may be applied for at any time. The initial public hearing on an application shall take place within 60 days of acceptance of a complete application. Finding 35: This proposal is not a Type II Metro Plan amendment, therefore this criteria is not applicable. (c) Consideration of a privately initiated Metro Plan amendment shall be postponed if the proposed amendment is also part of an existing planned refinement plan or special area study adoption or amendment process or one that is scheduled on the Planning Commission’s work program to begin within three months of the date the Metro Plan amendment application is submitted. Such a requested Metro Plan amendment shall be considered in the legislative proceedings on the refinement plan or special area study. If the refinement plan or special area study process has not begun within the three month period, the Metro Plan amendment application process shall begin immediately following the three month period. The Planning Director may waive a particular plan amendment application postponement under this subsection and require more immediate review if the Planning Director finds that either there is a public need for earlier consideration or that review of the proposed amendment as part of a general refinement plan or special area study adoption or amendment process will interfere with timely completion of that process. Finding 36: This proposal is not a citizen initiated Metro Plan amendment, therefore this criteria is not applicable. Page 10 of 24