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LaurelRidge Zone Change (City File Number Z 15-5) Page 3 of 3 Post Hearing - Applicant Testimony September 2, 2015 or not near the boundary of a differing designation. But, for a property which may have more than one plan designation or be adjacent to a plan designation boundary, where that designation or designation boundary falls on the property is now in a different location than with prior Metro Plan diagrams. The second concern is the validity of the north arrow rotation. We can't find anything in the legislative record regarding the 2004 Metro Plan amendment which discusses the rotation of the north arrow. If rotating the north arrow was not an intentional decision, with a methodology, justification and findings supporting such, it can only be viewed as an error in the construction of the diagram. Causing further concern that it may be just that - a scrivener's error - is that on the currently available Metro Plan diagram, dated 12/31/2010, the one available at the above-referenced websites, the north arrow appears to have been rotated back to its previous orientation, thus matching the 1980 and 1987 diagrams. So where does that leave us. We revised the application drawing ZC-4 - Zone Change: Metro Plan Diagram on Subject Property (previously submitted Exhibit G). Because we were no longer confident in the pedigree of the digital version of the 2004 diagram, we used our copy of the official adopted 2004 Metro Plan Diagram, the copy we received as part of our July 2014 public records request. We scanned it, in color, at the highest resolution we could. Now as a PDF, we imported it into the AutoCAD file containing the subject property's boundary survey and 301h Avenue centerline. At that point, we created two revised versions of sheet ZC-4. In one, we rotated the diagram 2 degrees counter-clockwise to account for the rotation of the north arrow. We confirmed that the subject property's boundary survey was still correctly oriented north. Taking special care to keep both diagrams oriented in the same direction (doing so digitally, not by hand), and using the 30th Avenue centerline (as before), we aligned the subject property over the Metro Plan diagram. We identified the boundary between the Parks and Open Space (POS) designation and the Low Density Residential (LDR) designation. This sheet is labeled ZC-4: Adopted 2004 Metro Plan Map Rotated. (See Exhibit L.) Because we are not certain as to the intent behind the north arrow rotation on the 2004 diagram, we produced a second ZC-4 sheet. Using the exact same methodology as with the first revised ZC-4, we produced this second ZC-4 without rotating the Metro Plan diagram. This sheet is labeled ZC-4: Adopted 2004 Metro Plan Map Not Rotated. (See Exhibit M.) Thus, we submit to the Hearings Official two interpretations of plan designation boundaries on the subject property. The applicant believes that the correct interpretation is the second interpretation, the one where the Metro Plan diagram has not been rotated. However, should the Hearings Official determine that the Metro Plan diagram should be rotated, we present the first interpretation, the one where the Metro Plan diagram has been rotated. As recommended by staff, to assist the Hearings Official, we also include a legal description of the plan designation boundary for each of the two interpretations (see Exhibits O and P). In advance, thank you for your consideration of this material. Sincerely, IZ CchcWCL M. ScXrei Richard M. Satre, AICP, ASLA, CSI Principal, Schirmer Satre Group Schirmer Satre Group. 375 West 4m Avenue, Suite 201, Eugene, OR 97401 . (541) 686-4540 Laurel Ridge Record (Z 15-5) Page 96