EXHIBITS Page 175 <br />Finding #24. The Metro Plan Environmental Resources Element includes policies addressing the use <br />and preservation of agricultural lands (Metro Plan III-C-3). The proposed amendments do not change <br />these policies. <br />Goa14 -Forest Land. This goal defines forest lands and requires counties to inventory them and <br />adopt policies and ordinances that will "conserve forest lands for forest uses." <br />Finding #25. This goal does not generally apply within adopted, acknowledged urban growth <br />boundaries. The Metro Plan Diagram describes a Forest Lands designation. The proposed amendments <br />do not change Metro Plan policies concerning the Forest lands designation. Neither Springfield nor <br />Eugene has a forest zoning district. Lane County has Impacted and Non-Impacted Forest Zones (LC <br />16.211, LC 16.211). The proposed amendments do not change the County policies or standards <br />governing these districts. <br />Finding #26. The Environmental Resources Element includes policies addressing the use and <br />preservation of forest lands (Metro Plan III-C-5). The proposed Chapter IV amendments do not change <br />these policies. <br />Goal 5 - Open Spaces, Scenic and Historic Areas, and Natural Resources. Goal 5 covers more than a <br />dozen natural and cultural resources such as wildlife habitats and wetlands. It establishes a process <br />for each resource to be inventoried and evaluated. <br />Finding #27. The Metro Plan Environmental Resources and Historic Preservation Elements contain <br />policies (Metro Plan pgs. III-C-3, III-1-2) addressing Goal 5 resource protection. Eugene and Springfield <br />have policies regulating the inventory and protection of Goal 5 resources in their respective <br />development codes. The proposed Chapter IV amendments do not change the resource policies or <br />protections found in the Metro Plan or in the Eugene and Springfield development codes. <br />Finding #28. OAR 660-023-0250 (3) narrows the applicability of Statewide Planning Goal 5 to <br />comprehensive plan amendments (PAPA): <br />(3) Local governments are not required to apply Goal 5 in consideration of a PAPA unless the PAPA <br />affects a Goal 5 resource. For purposes of this section, a PAPA would affect a Goal 5 resource only if: <br />(a) The PAPA creates or amends a resource list or a portion of an acknowledged plan or land use <br />regulation adopted in order to protect a significant Goal 5 resource or to address specific <br />requirements of Goal 5; <br />(b) The PAPA allows new uses that could be conflicting uses with a particular significant Goal 5 <br />resource site on an acknowledged resource list; or <br />(c) The PAPA amends an acknowledged UGB and factual information is submitted demonstrating <br />that a resource site, or the impact areas of such a site, is included in the amended UGB area. <br />Subsections (a) through (c) above are not applicable to this request as the proposed amendments do not <br />create or amend a list of Goal 5 resources, do not amend a plan or code provision adopted in order to <br />protect a significant Goal 5 resource or to address specific requirements of Goal 5, do not allow new <br />Metro Plan Enabling Amendments-Staff Findings <br />October 23, 2014 <br />Page 7 <br />Laurel Ridge Record (Z 15-5) Page 738 <br />