EXHIBITS Page 56 <br />Willamette River Greenway <br />The Willamette River Greenway Boundary is shown on the Metro Plan Diagram as an overlay. <br />Refer to Chapter III-D for information, findings, and policies related to the Greenway. <br />Public and Semi-Public <br />This designation contains three categories: <br />Government (includes major office complexes and facilities and lodges) <br />Education (includes high schools and colleges) <br />Parks and Open Space <br />This designation includes existing publicly owned metropolitan and regional scale parks and <br />publicly and privately owned golf courses and cemeteries in recognition of their role as visual <br />open space. This designation also includes other privately owned lands in response to Metro <br />Plan policies, such as the South Hills ridgeline, the Amazon corridor, the "Q" Street Ditch, and <br />buffers separating sand and gravel designations from residential lands. <br />Where park and open space is designated on privately owned agricultural land, those lands shall <br />be protected for agricultural use in accordance with Metro Plan policies. <br />Where park and open space is designated on forest lands inside the UGB, other values have <br />primary importance over commercial forest values and those park and open space areas shall be <br />protected for those primary values. <br />Where park and open space is designated on forest lands outside the UGB, commercial forest <br />values shall be considered as one of many primary values. <br />In addition to those not shown at a neighborhood scale but automatically included in the gross <br />allocation of residential acres, there is a need for public facilities and open space at a non-local <br />level, such as regional/metropolitan parks. Several are shown on the Metro Plan Diagram. <br />Those not yet in public ownership are based on environmental constraints, such as excessive <br />slopes or assets, such as unique vegetation associations. They should be preserved, if possible, <br />through public acquisition or tax relief programs. If that is not possible, development should be <br />required to respond to their unique conditions through clustering in areas of least value as open <br />space, locating circulation and access points in a manner that will result in minimal disturbance <br />of natural conditions and other similar measures particularly sensitive to such sites. <br />Agriculture <br />These lands outside the UGB include: Class I through IV agricultural soils, other soils in <br />agricultural use, and other lands in proximity to Class I through IV soils or agricultural uses on <br />Laurel Ridge Record (Z 15-5) Page 619 <br />