EXHIBITS Page 169 <br />Staff Findings <br />Metro Plan Enabling Amendments <br />October 23, 2014 <br />Applicants: <br />Local File Numbers: <br />City of Springfield <br />Springfield File No. TYP414-00005 <br />City of Eugene <br />Eugene File No. MA 14-02 <br />Lane County <br />Lane County File No. PA1313 <br />Request: <br />ProcedureType: <br />To amend Chapters I-V of the Eugene-Springfield <br />Type III Metro Plan Amendment <br />Metropolitan Area General Plan (Metro Plan) to allow for <br />the gradual replacement of the Metro Plan with city- <br />specific comprehensive plans. <br />1. Executive Summary <br />Text Amendments <br />ORS 197.304 (HB 3337) required the establishment of separate Urban Growth Boundaries (UGBs) for <br />Eugene and Springfield and was the impetus for initiating work on the Springfield Comprehensive Plan <br />and the Envision Eugene planning initiatives. As these planning efforts are readied for adoption, <br />amendments to various sections of Chapters I through V of the Metro Plan are necessary to allow for the <br />gradual replacement of the Plan with separate Eugene and Springfield comprehensive plans. <br />The amendments to Metro Plan Chapter IV which were reviewed and approved last year set the stage <br />for implementation of ORS 197.304 by allowing jurisdictions the autonomy to make city-specific <br />planning decisions. The Metro Plan Enabling Amendments are a broad review and adjustment of the <br />entire Metro Plan document to further enable the gradual replacement of the Metro Plan with city <br />specific policies from the Springfield Comprehensive Plan and Envision Eugene. The proposed <br />amendments will allow an orderly transition to a new planning framework within which Eugene, <br />Springfield and Lane County will continue to plan collaboratively in many areas while retaining the <br />autonomy to adopt city specific policies that reflect each community's vision and sensibilities. <br />The proposed amendments are primarily text amendments which include changes to every chapter of <br />the Metro Plan. However, the revisions throughout the Plan are limited to those that fit within at least <br />one of the following categories: <br />1. Revisions to ensure that each city can, independently of the other, establish city-specific plans <br />and establish that such plans supplant specific portions of the Metro Plan for that city; <br />2. Revisions to update and add explanations of the past, current and future status of the Metro Plan, <br />including an explanation of the stages of change anticipated as the cities conduct independent <br />planning for their separate populations' needs. <br />Metro Plan Enabling Amendments-Staff Findings <br />October 23, 2014 <br />Page 1 <br />Laurel Ridge Record (Z 15-5) Page 732 <br />