Public Comment Submitted During First Open Record Period

Such re-designations were identified in the Envision Eugene process as one of several strategies to reduce UGE expansion for low density residential purposes. These Envision Eugene strategies developed out of an extensive public involvement process, including two years of meetings with a 70-plus person community resource group, questionnaires, open houses, and community forums." It is apparent in the above statement that the Applicant is relying heavily on the Envision Eugene process to indicate there has been an abundance of citizen involvement to support the Applicant's application with respect to Statewide Planning Goal 1. However, in the Applicant's application in I. Land Use eguest, the Applicant states: "While the applicant ultimately pulled out of the Envision Eugene process, in large part because of an unacceptably low vehicle trip cap the ordinance would have imposed in order to avoid the detailed analysis required to demonstrate compliance with Goal 12, the property owner recognizes the soundness of the Envision Eugene reasoning." B1 admitting that the Applicant pulled out oft the Envision Eugene process, there is no support (evidence) for citizen involvement, through Envision Eugene, in the Applicant°s application fora Metro Planamendment and zone change for the Rest avers Memorial Park site with respect to meeting the requirements Statewide Planning Goal 1. As stated in "Ordinance with Exhibits" in the public record (document date 9/11/2015): "The City of Eugene land use code implements Statewide Planning Goal 1 by requiring that notice of the proposed amendment be given and public hearings be held prior to adoption. Consideration of the amendment begins with a City of Eugene Planning Commission public hearing on July 14, 2015. The applicant also held a neighborhood meeting which was noticed to the affected neighborhood organization and property owners and residents within 300 feet of the subject property, per EC 9.7007". In the statement above, the City clearly considers a neighborhood meeting neighborhood/Applicant Meeting) to be one of the require eats for satisfying Statewide Planning Goal 1 in land use issues in the city of Eugene. EC 907007 applies to Neighborhood/Applicant Meetings. EC 9.7007(4) states: "If the subject property is located within the boundaries of a city-recognized neighborhood association, the applicant must contact the applicable neighborhood association by registered or certified mail, proposing three possible dates and times for the meeting. The neighborhood association should reply to the applicant within 14 days and specify on which of the proposed three suggested dates the meeting should be held".