1, The Eugene-Springfield metropolitan area has a history of encouraging and recognizing <br />citizen involvement as an essential element in its planning program. <br />2. Citizen advisory committees have been established to provide the citizen's perspective on <br />a variety of metropolitan-wide planning and related issues. <br />3, Springfield, Lane County, and Eugene each use either their local planning commission or <br />a committee for citizen involvement in monitoring citizen involvement in the planning <br />process. <br />4. JPCC has been designated as the citizen organization for developing: and conducting a <br />citizen involvement program for the Metro Plan, including update processes, <br />5. The governing bodies have furthered their efforts at citizen involvement through the <br />development and support of community neighborhood organizations, community <br />surveys, citizen involvement advisory committees, and various media techniques for <br />citizen involvement and education. <br />6. How effective the Metro Plan will be depends to a large extent upon how much support <br />is provided by the metropolitan area residents in seeing that the Metro Plan is <br />implemented. <br />7. Successful Metro Plan development and implementation is dependent on a joint effort of <br />citizens, public and semi-public agencies, and elected officials. <br />Benefits of an ongoing metropolitan area planning advisory committee to provide citizen <br />perspective include an accumulation of knowledge and experience in the planning <br />process. <br />9. In 1984, an ongoing metropolitan policy committee, the Metropolitan Planning <br />Committee, was formed to provide policy direction for the Metro Plan 2-112-Year Mid- <br />Period Review. It was comprised of two elected officials and one Planning <br />Commissioner each from Eugene, Springfield, and Lane County, and one representative <br />of the metropolitan citizen committee participates as a non-voting member. <br />10. In 1987, the Metropolitan Planning Committee was replaced by the Metropolitan Policy <br />Committee (MPC). The MPC is comprised of two elected officials each from Eugene, <br />Springfield, and Lane County. The chief administrative officers of the three jurisdictions <br />serve as non-voting, ex-officio members of the MPC. When the MPC is considering <br />metropolitan transportation matters, the two members of the Lane Transit District (LTD) <br />Board shall serve as voting members and the General Manager of LTD and the Director <br />of the Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) shall also serve as non-voting, ex- <br />officio members of MPC. <br />III-K-2 <br />Laurel Ridge Record (Z 15-5) Page 261 <br />