Mr. Eric Berg-Johansen <br />August 14, 2015 <br />Page 8 <br />Conclusions <br />The applicant's overlay of the Tax Lots comprising the Laurel Ridge PUD property, the UGB, the <br />City Limits, and the centerline of the R-o-W of 30th Avenue onto the Metro Plan Zoning <br />Designations has been performed in an inappropriate manner. <br />The most egregious error is the fact that layers of the map consisting of the Tax Lots, UGB, City <br />Limits and 30th Avenue have been aligned to True North while the Metro Plan Zoning Designation <br />layer has been left aligned to Grid North of the State Plane Coordinate System, which imparts a 2- <br />degree clockwise rotation to the Metro Plan. <br />However, an additional, very significant error has been imparted to the applicant's map by an <br />inadvertent NW shift of 179 feet of the Tax Lots, UGB, City Limits and 30th Avenue layer relative to <br />the Metro Plan Zoning Designations layer. <br />It is possible that the latter error results from the applicant's unconscionable insistence that only <br />two usable referents are available on the Metro Plan Diagram for establishing the relationship with <br />the tax lot map. The applicant claims that the only referents available to them are the North Arrow <br />and the centerline of the Right-of-Way of 30t" Avenue. <br />In the area in question, the R-o-W width of 30t" Avenue varies from 240 to more than 300 feet. <br />Along the NW-SE oriented portion of the road located immediately W of much of the PUD's <br />western boundary, the actual road is located against the western side of the R-o-W. Therefore, <br />aligning the centerline of the R-o-W with the black line on the Metro Plan Diagram (placed along <br />the centerline of the actual road) moves the R-o-W centerline significantly west of its actual <br />position. <br />LCOG's version of the overlay, on the other hand, utilizing the entire Metro Plan Diagram, can <br />make use of numerous referents which provide much tighter control on the relationship between <br />the well-surveyed tax lot map layer and the less well constrained Metro Plan Diagram. For <br />instance, use of the streets close to Downtown Eugene allows constraint of the Metro Plan <br />Diagram to within 24 feet in each direction. <br />Schirmer-Satre's 179-ft offset to the northwest from the LCOG version represents 7.5 times <br />the "wiggle-room" that is imparted to LCOG's version by the Downtown streets. Therefore, <br />when combined with the rotation error, and considering the entire Metro Plan Diagram, the <br />applicant's snippet cannot have been placed in the correct context. <br />