Item 1: Ordinance on EWEB Downtown Riverfront Property

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EWEB DOWNTOWN RIVERFRONT LAND USE COMPONENTS and to protect, maintain, preserve, and enhance the natural, scenic, historic, and recreational qualities of the Willamette Greenway. The proposed setback line is site specific, context sensitive, and responds to existing conditions and the redevelopment vision. The proposed Greenway setback varies in width from 25 feet to 125 feet adjacent the Willamette River, as delineated from the top-of-bank. The setback’s variable width responds to existing site conditions and anticipated redevelopment consistent with the Master Plan vision. In total the proposed Willamette Greenway Setback will protect 3.19 acres of the subject site. Adoption of the setback ensures that no new buildings will be constructed between the setback and the river, that adequate public access is provided along the river frontage, that limited existing habitat is protected, and that the remaining natural vegetative fringe is protected. The findings in Section 5.6 under EC 9.8815 demonstrate compliance with applicable approval criteria and standards for proposed development within Willamette Greenway. Compliance with applicable Metro Plan Willamette Greenway Policies is demonstrated in the findings for EC 9.7730(3)(b) below. Based on these findings, incorporated by reference herein, the proposed amendments and zone change are compliant with Goal 15. Goal 16-19 – Estuarine Resources, Coastal Shoreland, Beaches and Dune, and Ocean Resources: There are no estuarine, coastal, ocean, or beach and dune resource on the subject property or otherwise affected by the proposed plan amendment. Therefore, Goals 16 through 19 do not apply. (b) Adoption of the amendment must not make the Metro Plan internally inconsistent. The Metro Plan land use diagram amendments to re-designate approximately 18.61 acres of land from Heavy Industrial and Parks and Open Space to Mixed Use Area and to apply the Nodal Development Area Overlay designation to approximately 1.12 acres of land will not create an internal conflict with the remainder of the Metro Plan, as described below. Within the subject site, existing land use designations shown in the Metro Plan diagram include: High Density Residential, Heavy Industrial, Parks and Open Space, Mixed Use Areas, and Nodal Development; as defined below: ▪ Residential, High Density land generally accommodates “auxiliary uses such as streets, elementary and junior high schools, neighborhood parks, other public facilities, neighborhood commercial services” if compatible with refinement plans, zoning ordinances, and other local controls. High Density Residential land allows for “over 20 units per gross acre.” ▪ Heavy Industrial land generally accommodates “industries that process large volumes of raw materials into refined products and/or that have significant external impacts.” ▪ Public and Semi-Public, Parks and Open Space land generally accommodates “existing publicly owned metropolitan and regional scale parks.” ▪ Mixed Use land represents “areas where more than one use might be appropriate, usually as determined by refinement plans on a local level.” ▪ Nodal Development is “a mixed-use pedestrian-friendly land use pattern that seeks to increase concentrations of population and employment in well-defined areas with good transit service, a mix of diverse and compatible land uses, and public and private improvements designed to be pedestrian and transit oriented.” The Master Plan envisions a green redevelopment of the subject property, with approximately eight acres of dedicated public open space, new construction and adaptive re-use of buildings, pedestrian-oriented streets connecting Downtown Eugene to the Willamette River, and a cultural Cameron McCarthy FINAL SUBMITTAL | December 5, 2012 {00091176;1 }