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A RESOLUTION SUPPORTING THE CONCEPT OF A
COORDINATED GROWTH MANAGEMENT STRATEGY
FOR THE SOUTHERN WILLAMETTE VALLEY REGION
(CENTRAL LANE COUNTY).
The City Council of the City of Eugene finds that:
A. Lane Council of Governments (LCOG) has determined that there is a need for local
governments and service providers to take a regional approach to growth management in the
Southern Willamette Valley, including the Eugene-Springfield metropolitan area and the
surrounding commute shed, based on inter-city commute patterns.
B. In 1990, one-quarter to three-quarters of the resident workers in Coburg, Cottage
Grove, Creswell, Junction City, Lowell, Oakridge/Westfir, and Veneta commuted to Eugene-
Springfield to work. Three percent to 40 percent of the jobs in those cities were held by residents
of Eugene-Springfield.
C. The role these cities play in the future growth of the region needs to be considered
in addressing growth-related issues in these cities, including maintaining community identity,
providing a balance of jobs and housing, efficient transportation facilities, and adequate public
activities and services to support the level and type of desired growth, and ensuring orderly,
efficient urban growth to minimize costs.
D. These inter-city commute patterns have impacts on air quality and state and
metropolitan transportation systems and their ability to efficiently move people and goods.
E. Interstate-5 faces congestion with few alternative north/south routes and the adequacy
of road connections to Interstate-5 and east/west connections across Interstate-5 is in question.
These conditions may impact the movement of people and goods and the economies of these cities
and create the need for coordinated and consistent corridor management to maintain the planned
functions of these transportation systems.
F. Public transportation can address some of the travel needs of inter-city commutes if
planned in a coordinated manner that considers urban and rural bus service, transit links between
adjacent cities and regional inter-modal connections, including bus, rail and air.
G. It is important to preserve the environmental quality, economy, life style, livability,
and identity of the region and its member communities by protecting open space and valuable
agricultural, forest and mineral resources, and managing and protecting watersheds, stream corridors,
and wetland systems.
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H. The availability and location of public facilities and the economic development
policies of the involved jurisdictions affect the type, amount and direction of growth in the region,
and these facilities and policies need to be evaluated as part of a growth management strategy for
the Southern Willamette Valley.
I. Development of a growth management strategy should include formation of a
technical advisory committee (T AC) comprised of staff from organizations with authority to
implement the strategy and, if possible, expanding an existing staff committee, such as the
Transportation Planning Committee for the Metropolitan Planning Organization, to include all
relevant organizations on the T AC.
J. The strategy may result in an intergovernmental agreement among TAC
organizations, possibly including Lane County, local and regional utilities and transit district, the
Oregon Department of Transportation, Eugene, Springfield, and cities within the commute shed of
the Eugene-Springfield metropolitan area, as defined by inter-city commute trends.
K. The agreement could include some or all of the following types of agreements: to
cooperatively address growth management and public facility issues, including transportation; to use
certain principles to guide growth management efforts, jobs/housing interactions, and transportation
improvements in the region; to establish target population and density levels for each urban growth
boundary (UGB); to implement provisions to protect transportation facilities, open space, watershed
health, and agricultural land; and to implement provisions to minimize/guide development in areas
outside and between UGB's.
NOW, THEREFORE,
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF EUGENE, a
Municipal Corporation of the State of Oregon, as follows:
Section 1. The City of Eugene supports the concept of a coordinated growth management
strategy for the Southern Willamette Valley region and LCOG's pursuit of funding to support
strategy development.
The foregoing Resolution adopted the 12th day of July, 1999.
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