Item 1: Ordinance on Downtown and Mixed Use Development

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Exhibit E Preliminary Findings Downtown/Mixed Use Land Use Code and Metro Plan/TransPlan Amendments (City Files CA 13-1 and MA 13-1) Overview This package of code and plan amendments is intended to facilitate desired mixed use development for downtown, along transit corridors and in commercial areas. Consistent with several strategies in the Envision Eugene proposal, the purpose of these amendments is to facilitate compact urban development by changing land use regulations to better align with Envision Eugene. These amendments are also necessary as part of the city’s strategy to accommodate the city's 20 year need for commercial and multi-family housing inside the current urban growth boundary (UGB). Specifically, these amendments are part of a package of land use efficiency strategies the city is relying on to accommodate approximately 400 commercial jobs and 1,600 multi-family homes inside the UGB by increasing the likelihood of redevelopment in the downtown, along transit corridors and in core commercial areas. The code amendments address the following topic areas:  Housing in Commercial Zones  Surface Parking Limitation in the C-3 Major Commercial Zone  Large Commercial Facilities Standards in Downtown  Commercial Landscaping Standards  Nodal Development (/ND) Overlay Zone  Transit Oriented Development (/TD) Overlay Zone  Traffic Impact Analysis/Level of Service in Downtown  General Commercial Standards (housekeeping) Related to the code amendment to eliminate the traffic impact analysis within the downtown area, a concurrent Metro Plan Amendment would revise a policy in the Metro Plan and TransPlan to reduce the acceptable performance standard (level of service) for the corresponding area. Land Use Code Amendments (CA 13-1) Eugene Code Section 9.8065 requires that the following approval criteria (in bold italics) be applied to a code amendment: (1) The amendment is consistent with applicable statewide planning goals adopted by the Land Conservation and Development Commission. Goal 1 - Citizen Involvement. To develop a citizen involvement program that insures the opportunity for citizens to be involved in all phases of the planning process. The City has acknowledged provisions for citizen involvement which insure the opportunity for citizens to be involved in all phases of the planning process and set out requirements for such involvement. The amendments do not amend the citizen involvement program. The process for adopting these amendments complied with Goal 1 because it is consistent with the citizen