Item 1: Metro Plan Boundary Adjustment - Springfield

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Exhibit E Finding 43: All three governing jurisdictions have chosen to participate in this Metro Plan Amendment, therefore the process of LC 12.240 below along with LC Ch. 16.400(6) shall be followed. Lane Code Ch. 12.240 Metro Plan - Plan Amendment Process - Three Jurisdictions. (1) When The Three Jurisdiction Process is Used. The following process shall be used to approve Metro Plan Type I amendments and Type II amendments where all three jurisdictions participate in the decision. Finding 44: This Type I Metro Plan amendment is being processed as a three jurisdictional process. (2) Investigation and Report. Within 30 days after responses are received from both referral jurisdictions or within 50 days after the initiation date if no response is received, the planning staff of the home jurisdiction where the proposed amendment was submitted shall investigate the facts bearing on the application, prepare a report, and submit it to the Planning Commissions of all three jurisdictions. The report shall be mailed or delivered to affected and interested parties at the same time it is delivered to the three Planning Commissions. Finding 45: LMD staff will prepare and mail a written report to the Planning Commissions of all three jurisdictions and mail the report to all affected and interested parties prior to the Public Hearing. The report will also be available in LMD offices during normal business hours. (3) Planning Commission Consideration. Within 30 days after receipt of the staff report, the Planning Commissions of Eugene, Springfield and Lane County shall hold a joint public hearing on the proposed Metro Plan amendment. The provisions of LC 12.230(3) above apply to the joint Planning Commission hearing. Within 30 days after the proposed Metro Plan amendment hearing and close of the evidentiary record, each Planning Commission shall make a recommendation to its governing body on the proposed Metro Plan amendment. Finding 46: A tri-jurisdictional joint Planning Commission Hearing is scheduled for July 19, 2011. As the criteria above directs, each Planning Commission shall make a recommendation to its governing body on the proposed Metro Plan amendment within 30 days after the close of the evidentiary hearing. Eugene and Springfield Planning Commission will make a recommendation to their City Councils on the Metro Plan item of this proposed ordinance, and Lane County Planning Commission will make a recommendation to the BCC on all five items of this proposed ordinance. The recommendation of all three Commissions shall be forwarded to staff in LMD to compile and deliver the joint recommendations to the BCC for their consideration and action in a subsequent public hearing. (4) Governing Bodies Action. Within 30 days after the last Planning Commission acts on the Metro Plan amendment proposal, the governing bodies of Eugene, Springfield and Lane County shall hold a joint public hearing on the plan amendment. The governing bodies’ decisions shall be based solely on the evidentiary record created before the Planning Commissions. No new evidence shall be allowed at the governing body joint hearing. Within 30 days after the joint public hearing, each governing body shall approve, modify and approve, or deny the proposed Metro Plan amendment. Each governing body shall take action by ordinance with adopted findings and conclusions on whether the Page 14 of 24