Item 1: Ordinance on EWEB Downtown Riverfront Property

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EWEB DOWNTOWN RIVERFRONT LAND USE COMPONENTS landscape that displays the ecological, social, industrial, and civic history of the place. It establishes a framework of streets, open space, and redevelopment parcels as well as a set of allowable uses and use requirements. The Master Plan uses a modified version of the C-2 Commercial Base Zone permitted uses as a guide for determining future allowable uses on the subject. The Master Plan promotes a mix of diverse, compatible, and pedestrian-friendly uses as the prevalent land use pattern. It seeks to increase concentrations of populations and employment by promoting residential, office, and retail uses and the street layout accommodates future transit service, although transit service is currently available in the vicinity of the subject site. Design guidelines within promote pedestrian and transit oriented development. Therefore, the Mixed Use Areas and Nodal Development designations are consistent with the redevelopment vision. Five (5) parcels within the subject site are currently designated Mixed Use Areas, which the proposed amendments will retain. Based on the definitions above, industries that produce significant external impacts are not compatible with the redevelopment vision, therefore the proposed amendments re-designate Heavy Industrial parcels to Mixed Use Areas. The EWEB North Building currently sits on land designated Parks and Open Space. To facilitate future adaptive reuse of the building, the proposed amendments re-designate the land to Mixed Use Areas. Land located west of the Ferry Street Bridge Viaduct is designated High Density Residential, which based on the definition above, is consistent with the redevelopment vision for the area, therefore the proposed amendments retain the High Density Residential designation. The proposal involves the establishment of a Specific Area Plan (SAP) (Exhibit A Downtown Riverfront Specific Area Plan) and a Special Area Zone (SAZ) (Exhibit B S-DR Downtown Riverfront Special Area Zone) to implement policies described herein. Once adopted, the documents will become part of City’s guiding framework for land use regulation. Both documents are designed to provide regulatory incentives that facilitate redevelopment and direct growth and density to the subject site. Through the proposed land use changes and amendments the proposal removes barriers to redevelopment and directs growth and density to the Downtown Riverfront consistent with policies in the Eugene Downtown Plan. Although the proposed amendments do not mandate a specified residential density per gross acre for the subject site; they are designed to facilitate mixed- use development, specifically residential; and, they provide for residential construction in areas where it is currently prohibited. All Metro Plan policies were evaluated in relation to their applicability to the amendments and the following policies were found to be applicable to the proposal. The findings demonstrate how the plan amendments are consistent with, and in fact supported by the policy directions contained in the Metro Plan. Cameron McCarthy FINAL SUBMITTAL | December 5, 2012 {00091176;1 }