Item 3D: Resolution 5083 Annexing Land to the City of Eugene (River Ridge Golf Complex - A 12-6)

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Attachment C - Application Materials In the balance of this section we suggest defining the UGB as being at the mapped boundary between the floodway and the floodplain. This results in a relatively straight north/south line, consistent with the map in the Metro Plan. It will maximize the amount of land in the UGB, which will ensure the most land is available in the existing UGB to accommodate growth. It will also ensure that the floodplain area will be inside the UGB and, hence, available for uses that will support urban development, including bike paths, pedestrian ways, and open space. Generally this option is most consistent with the map of the UGB shown in the Metro Plan, which appears to capture in the UGB the vast majority of the land between Delta Hwy and the river in the area north of Ayres Road. Submitted with this application is a map prepared by Poage Engineering and Surveying, Inc., which shows the proposed UGB line on the west, as the boundary line between the floodway and the floodplain. The map also shows the edge of the floodplain and the odd configuration that would result if that were the UGB line. This map was created by locating FEMA flood elevation data for the floodplain and the floodway on a detailed contour map of the site. This map confirms the point made above, that the floodway boundary (where the floodplain meets the floodway) is a relatively straight north/south, which would make a simple UGB boundary. It also shows that using the start of the floodplain line as the UGB would result in a much more complex line on the ground. The floodplain reflects a large backwater area sticking into the property during the 100 - year flood event. Choosing this line to be the UGB would create an odd - shaped UGB line on the west — one that would feature a large peninsula of urban land sticking out into rural county land. The legal description submitted with this application in Exhibit D includes all the land to the edge of the floodway, as reflected on the Poage map. Here we examine each of the five factors listed in the Metro Plan as relevant to making the UGB site specific in this reach of the UGB perimeter. Protect Ag Lands: The proposed UGB line excludes all Agricultural land from the UGB, as intended by the Metro Plan. Floodway Fringe supports drawing the UGB at the edge of the floodway. In connection with this application, the applicant has had the FEMA floodway line shown on a contour map of the subject property and then described in a metes and bounds description. That metes and bounds description is shown on the map in Exhibit D, prepared by Poage Engineering and Surveying, and is reflected in the legal description of the area requested for annexation. The surveyed map of the floodway matches most closely the generalized map of the UGB line shown in the Metro Plan for this property. The UGB line in the Metro Plan appears to capture nearly all the land between Delta Hwy. and the river in the area that is north of Ayres Road. Protect Wetlands is not particularly relevant to setting the UGB, as the subject property is fully developed with a golf course and related improvements. It is not in a River Ridge Annexation Supporting Narrative — Page 6