Public Hearings will be held on all changes to the Metro Plan text or diagram. <br />On April 26, 2003, more than twenty days prior to the June 3, 2003 joint planning <br />commission public hearing, 3,884 notices, of the June 3 and June 17, 2003 public hearings <br />were mailed.to all property owners affected by the Metro Plan Diagram amendments; to all <br />property owners outside the UGB and within the Metro Plan boundary, and to the Periodic <br />Review Interested Parties Mailing List. The notice described the amendments in detail. A <br />Periodic Review Newsletter was included with the notice and was sent to the interested <br />parties list as well as affected property owners. A total of 5,500 newsletters were mailed. <br />Notice of the Metro Plan amendments joint public hearings was published in the Register- <br />Guard on May 4 and May 13 and in the Springfield News; April 30, 2003, at least twenty <br />days prior to the public hearings. All of the. materials related to these Metro Plan diagram <br />amendments were posted on the web site www.Icoi-z.org/metro and this web site was <br />advertised in all notices and the newsletter. A wall map showing the Metro.Plan diagram <br />amendments was posted at the City of Eugene and City of Springfield planning offices.- . <br />News releases were provided to the media on April 23 and May 6, 2003. A Public Workshop <br />was held on the proposal on May 7, 2003. Notice of the workshop was provided in: the <br />news releases; the April 30, 2003 and May 4, 2003 newspaper display ads; and the Periodic <br />Review Newsletter which was distributed as described in the previous paragraph. About 37 <br />people attended the May 7 workshop and several people provided oral or written comment. <br />For the most part, staff responded to questions posed by workshop participants. Fact'sheets, <br />flyers, reports, and other written materials were provided 'at the workshop and available <br />before and during the public involvement process. All of the materials related to these Metro <br />Plan text and diagram amendments were posted on the web site www.lcog,.org/metro or via a <br />link to'the City of Eugene web site: www.ci.eugene.or.us/1VRS/eugene.htm by April 30, <br />2003. <br />This Metro Plan amendment proposal is subject to the public notification and hearing <br />processes adopted by the City of Springfield in SDC 7.100, City of Eugene in'EC 9.118 to <br />9.136, and Lane County in LC 12.240. The amendments were considered at joint public <br />hearings before the Springfield, Eugene, and Lane County Planning Commissions on June 3 <br />and June 17, 2003.. Notice of the Planning Commissions public hearings was published in <br />the Register-Guard on May 13, 2003. Written notice of the Joint Planning Commissions <br />public hearing was mailed to all affected property owners and interested parties. <br />Following a recommendation from the planning commissions, the Springfield and Eugene <br />City Councils and Lane County Board of Commissioners held a duly noticed, on the record, <br />joint public hearing to consider approval, modification, or denial of the amendments on <br />February 10, 2004. The Oregon Department of Land Conservation and Development <br />QLCD) received drafts of the text and diagram amendments in compliance with Periodic <br />Review requirements. Notice of the Metro Plan Diagram amendments was sent to DLCD on <br />Exhibit D: Findings in Support of Adopting Ordinance for the Eugene_Springfield Page 3 of 15 228 <br />Metropolitan Plan (Metro Plan) Housekeeping Revisions, Metro Plan Chapter III-C, <br />