Item 1: Ordinance on EWEB Downtown Riverfront Property

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EWEB DOWNTOWN RIVERFRONT LAND USE COMPONENTS 4.0 SPECIFIC REQUEST The subject property is designated Heavy Industrial, High Density Residential, Mixed Use, and Parks and Open Space by the Eugene-Springfield Metropolitan Area Plan (Metro Plan) Diagram. The subject property is zoned Public Land (PL), Light-Medium Industrial (I-2), Heavy Industrial (I-3), and Special District (S-W, Whiteaker Special Area Zone) by the City of Eugene Zoning Map with portions of the property having Site Review (/SR), Transit District (/TD), and Water Resources (/WR) overlay zoning. As noted in Section 2.1, the proposal is a concurrent request for approval of a Metro Plan Amendments, Refinement Plan Adoption, Refinement Plan Amendments, Code Amendments, Zone Change, and Willamette Greenway Permit application. Each of the individual land use components is described below. Findings of compliance with applicable policies, approval criteria, and standards are provided in Section 5.0 Approval Criteria and Standards. ▪ Metro Plan Amendments The proposal involves a Type II Metro Plan Amendments application pursuant to EC  9.7700(2)(a) to change the plan diagram designation of three (3) parcels within the subject site from Heavy Industrial and Parks and Open Space to Mixed Use and apply the Nodal Development Area Overlay designation to five (5) parcels in order to implement the Master Plan vision. ▪ Refinement Plan Adoption The proposal involves a Type V Refinement Plan Adoption application pursuant to EC  9.8421 to adopt the Downtown Riverfront Specific Area Plan as a refinement plan. ▪ Refinement Plan Amendments The proposal involves a Type V Refinement Plan Amendments application pursuant to EC  9.8421 to remove Downtown Riverfront Policies 2 and 3 in the Eugene Downtown Plan as the policies have been enacted through the relocation of EWEB’s utility functions and completion of the Master Plan and are now obsolete. The proposal involves a Type V Refinement Plan Amendments application pursuant to EC  9.8421 to remove EWEB Policies II.E.1, II.E.2, and II.E.3 in the Riverfront Park Study as the policies are obsolete. ▪ Code Amendments The proposal involves a Type V Code Amendments application pursuant to EC 9.8060 to  establish the S-DR Downtown Riverfront Special Area Zone and revise other policies, criteria, and development standards, for consistency with the S-DR Downtown Riverfront Special Area Zone and the Downtown Riverfront Specific Area Plan. ▪ Zone Change The proposal involves a Type IV Zone Change application pursuant to EC 9.8850 to change  the zoning designation of sixteen (16) parcels within the subject site from I-2 Light Medium Industrial, I-3 Heavy Industrial, and PL Public Land to S-DR Downtown Riverfront Special Area Zone; and, to remove the /TD Transit Oriented Development Overlay on twelve (12) parcels within the subject site. ▪ Willamette Greenway Permit Cameron McCarthy FINAL SUBMITTAL | December 5, 2012 {00091176;1 }