EXHIBITS Page 174 <br />apply to one or more of the jurisdictions. Therefore, when Eugene or Springfield adopts a city-specific <br />plan to independently address a planning responsibility that was previously addressed on a regional <br />basis in the Metro Plan, that city will also amend the Metro Plan to specify which particular provisions <br />of the Metro Plan will cease to apply within that city.' <br />Finding #20. Unless the Metro Plan provides otherwise, such Metro Plan provisions will continue to <br />apply within the other city. If the other city later adopts its own city-specific plan intended to supplant <br />the same Metro Plan provisions, it may take one of two actions. That city will either amend the Metro <br />Plan to specify that the particular provisions also cease to apply within that city or, if the provisions do <br />not apply to rural or urbanizable areas within the Metro Plan boundary, to simply delete those particular <br />Metro Plan provisions. <br />Finding #21. To better enable the jurisdictions to amend the Metro Plan as required by ORS 197.304, <br />the procedures for amending the Metro Plan, provided in Chapter IV, were revised in 2013. The Eugene <br />City Council, the Springfield City Council, and the Lane County Board of Commissioners adopted identical <br />amendments to Chapter IV of the Metro Plan on November 18, 2013 (Eugene City Council, Ordinance <br />No. 6304; Springfield City Council, Ordinance No. 20519; and Lane County Board of Commissioners, <br />Ordinance No. PA 1300). <br />Finding #22. The proposed amendments include changes to every chapter of the Metro Plan. <br />However, the revisions throughout the Plan are limited to those that fit within at least one of the <br />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 />3. Revisions to change or remove text that can no longer be applied due to a change in the law and <br />that could not (even arguably) raise a policy concern. This includes the deletion of text relating to <br />the now defunct Lane County Boundary Commission. <br />Goal3 -Agricultural Land. Goal 3 defines "agricultural lands." It then requires counties to inventory <br />such lands and to "preserve and maintain" them through farm zoning. <br />Finding #23. This goal generally does not apply within adopted, acknowledged urban growth <br />boundaries. The Metro Plan Diagram describes an Agriculture designation (Metro Plan II-G-9). The <br />amendments do not change Metro Plan policies concerning the Agriculture designation. The <br />amendments do not change the policies or standards regulating Eugene's Agricultural Zone (EC 9.2000) <br />or Lane County's Exclusive Farm Use Zone (LC 16.212) within the Metro Plan Boundary. The City of <br />Springfield does not have an agricultural zoning district. <br />2 As more specifically explained in Chapter IV of the Metro Plan, one city with co-adoption by Lane County may <br />amend the Metro Plan to specify which particular Metro Plan provisions no longer apply within the unincorporated <br />(urbanizable) portions of its LIGB. The other city is not required to co-adopt such a Metro Plan amendment. See <br />Chapter IV. <br />Metro Plan Enabling Amendments-Staff Findings <br />October 23, 2014 Page 6 <br />Laurel Ridge Record (Z 15-5) Page 737 <br />