EXHIBITS Page 173 <br />the Eugene and Springfield Chambers of Commerce, the Lane Homebuilders Association, as well as <br />various neighborhood groups and leaders. <br />Goal2 - Land Use Planning. Goal 2 outlines the basic procedures of Oregon's statewide planning <br />program. It says that land use decisions are to be made in accordance with a comprehensive plan, and <br />that suitable "implementation ordinances" to put the plan's policies into effect must be adopted. <br />Finding #14. Goal 2 requires that actions related to land use be consistent with acknowledged <br />comprehensive plans of cities and counties. The Eugene-Springfield Metropolitan Area General Plan <br />(Metro Plan) is the acknowledged comprehensive plan that guides land use planning in Springfield, <br />Eugene and Lane County. <br />Finding #15. ORS 197.304, adopted by the Oregon Legislature in 2007, requires Eugene and <br />Springfield to divide the metropolitan UGB into two city-specific UGBs. Each city is also required to <br />demonstrate that its separate UGB includes sufficient land to accommodate its 20- year need for <br />residential land consistent with Statewide Planning Goal 10 (Housing) and Goal 14 (Urbanization). <br />(Urbanization). These statutory mandates implicitly require each city to also adopt a separate 20-year <br />population forecast. ORS 197.304 allows the cities to take these separate actions "[njotwithstanding . <br />acknowledged comprehensive plan provisions to the contrary." <br />Finding #16. The ORS 197.304 mandates are being carried out by the two cities and Lane County <br />through a series of incremental actions over time rather than through a Metro Plan Update process. <br />Some of the land use planning that has historically been included in the Metro Plan will, instead, be <br />included in the cities' separate, city-specific comprehensive plans. This does not diminish the fact that <br />the cities and the county remain committed to regional problem-solving.' <br />Finding #17. The three jurisdictions anticipate that the implementation of ORS 197.304 will result in a <br />regional land use planning program that continues to utilize the Metro Plan and regional functional <br />plans for land use planning responsibilities that remain regional in nature. City-specific plans will be <br />used to address those planning responsibilities that the cities address independently of each other. <br />Finding #18. Each city is taking a different approach to, and is on a different time line for, establishing <br />its own UGB, 20-year land supply and city-specific comprehensive land use plans. As this incremental <br />shift occurs, the Metro Plan will be amended several times to reflect the evolving extent to which it <br />continues to apply to each jurisdiction. During this transition, the three jurisdictions will also continue <br />to work together on any other Metro Plan amendments needed to carry out planning responsibilities <br />that continue to be addressed on a regional basis. <br />Finding #19. ORS 197.304 allows the cities to adopt local plans that supplant the regional nature of <br />the Metro Plan "[njnotwithstanding acknowledged comprehensive plan provisions to the contrary." <br />As these local plans are adopted, Eugene, Springfield and Lane County wish to maintain the Metro Plan <br />as a guide that will direct readers to applicable local plan(s) when Metro Plan provisions no longer <br />1 In addition to the continued collaboration through some regional land use plans, such as the regional <br />transportation system plan and the regional public facilities and services plan, the three jurisdictions are <br />committed to working collaboratively in other ways and through other initiatives, such as the Regional Prosperity <br />Economic Development Plan jointly approved in February, 2010. <br />Metro Plan Enabling Amendments-Staff Findings <br />October 23, 2014 <br />Page 5 <br />Laurel Ridge Record (Z 15-5) Page 736 <br />