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Lane County Board of Commissioners April 27, 2010 Page 2 3. How will potential urban pollution be addressed and be prevented from entering the District's ditches? Our late arrival on the scene of the Master Plan results from the continuation of a communication problem that exists between the City of Eugene, Lane County and the District. The District has not been directly includcd in the drafting of the storm water basin planning document and first learned of its existence last month. The District did not directly participate in the drafting of the document even though, on at least two occasions, the District has requested, in writing, that the city and the county communicate with it on matters regarding development of land in the northern River Road/Santa Clara area that is within the boundary of the District. In 2002 and again in 2005 we sent written requests to the city and the county asking that both governmental entities improve communication with the District prior to further development within the northern River Road /Santa Clara area. Copies of the letters containing the District's requests are attached to this correspondence for inclusion in the record of this proceeding. On December 17, 2002 we requested: "... that you assign the appropriate persons within the affected divisions of Lane County Public Works (Surveyor, Building and Planning) to contact and work with us to establish a process that provides a determination of future maintenance responsibility prior to the approval of any planning or building action for property within the subject area. Specifically we suggest that, at a minimum, the process provide the District an opportunity to respond to any application for subdivision or partition of land within the subject area and following that response, for Lane County to place the necessary conditions or restrictions (e,g., C,C &Rs) on the subdivision or partition to ensure that maintenance of the ditches continues after residential development has occurred. We note that the same type of process should be in place regarding any subdivision or partitioning of property in the area north of Beacon Drive and the Urban Growth Boundary that includes either of the subject channels." On that same date we made the same request to the City of Eugene. The District has not received a response to its 2002 correspondence. In response to a City of Eugene ordinance withdrawing property from the District in 2005, the District again requested that the city communicate with it prior to development of the subject area. The District has received no response to that request.