EXHIBITS Page 179 <br />Goal 14 -Urbanization. This goal requires cities to estimate future growth and needs for land and <br />then plan and zone enough land to meet those needs. <br />Finding #41. Metro Plan Chapter II contains growth management and urbanization sections (Sections <br />II-C and II-E). Chapter II, Section C-Goals, "Fundamental Principles and Growth Management Policy" <br />identifies the Metro Plan's goals for growth management: <br />1. Use urban, urbanizable, and rural lands efficiently. <br />2. Encourage orderly and efficient conversion of land from rural to urban uses in response to urban <br />needs, taking into account metropolitan and statewide goals. <br />3. Protect rural lands best suited for non-urban uses from incompatible urban encroachment. <br />The proposed amendments do not change these goals. <br />Finding #42. Chapter II, Section E addresses the need to provide an adequate land supply to meet <br />future needs. With the transition mandated in 2007 by ORS 197.304, the shared metropolitan UGB will <br />be replaced with two separate UGBs (the Eugene UGB and the Springfield UGB). This changed the land <br />use work programs for the three jurisdictions. Evaluation of the sufficiency of the 2015 metropolitan <br />UGB was replaced with an in-depth analysis of each city's independent needs and the supplies of land <br />that exist with respect to the separate areas of jurisdictional responsibility. That process began with the <br />three jurisdictions' adoption of city-specific population forecasts in Chapter I of the Metro Plan. In 2011, <br />the City of Springfield, with co-adoption by Lane County, amended the Metro Plan to establish its own <br />UGB consistent with ORS 197.304.3. <br />Finding #43. As part of Envision Eugene and the state regulations for urban growth boundary planning, <br />the city is identifying several ways to accommodate the projected population growth over the next 20 <br />years. They include: <br />1. Using existing buildable land capacity (e.g. vacant and partially vacant land) inside the urban growth <br />boundary (UGB), <br />2. Creating new capacity inside the existing UGB by implementing new strategies and actions to <br />accommodate more homes and jobs (e.g. efficiency strategies, land use re-designations), and <br />3. Creating new capacity by expanding the UGB for the remaining land need. <br />In 2012, the March 2012 Envision Eugene Draft Recommendation presented the draft land need for <br />housing, jobs, parks and schools to accommodate this growth over the next 20 years, including how <br />much of the land need would be accommodated through each of these three ways. Some of these <br />estimates, such as the amount of jobs and homes accommodated on existing buildable land, were based <br />on land use data from 2001-2008. <br />Finding #44. As mentioned in Finding #36, in 2011, the City of Springfield and Lane County adopted a <br />Residential Land Use and Housing Element for the Springfield Comprehensive Plan that addresses <br />Metro Plan Enabling Amendments-Staff Findings <br />October 23, 2014 <br />Page 11 <br />Laurel Ridge Record (Z 15-5) Page 742 <br />