EXHIBITS Page 57 <br />Class V through VIII soils. Designated agricultural lands are protected to preserve agricultural <br />resource values. <br />Sand and Gravel <br />This category includes existing and future aggregate processing and extraction areas. Aggregate <br />extraction and processing is allowed in designated areas subject to Metro Plan policies, <br />applicable state and federal regulations, and local regulations. For new extraction areas, <br />reclamation plans required by the State of Oregon and Lane County provide a valuable means of <br />assuring that environmental considerations, such as re-vegetation, are addressed. It is important <br />to monitor the demand for aggregate to ensure an adequate supply of this vital non-renewable <br />resource is available to meet metropolitan needs. <br />Rural Residential, Rural Commercial, and Rural Industrial <br />The prefix rural refers to the location of these designations on rural portions of the Metro Plan <br />outside the UGB.6 The actual uses may or may not be rural in nature. These rural designations <br />reflect existing patterns of development or commitment to rural lifestyle and have been carefully <br />documented and described with appropriate findings as exceptions to agricultural or forest <br />resource goals. Development on vacant or underdeveloped rural residential, rural commercial, or <br />rural industrial designated parcels is permissible when rural level services are approved and <br />when such development is done in accordance with other applicable policies. <br />The rural industrial uses in adopted exception areas are light-medium industrial in nature. <br />Application of Lane County's M-2, Light Industrial zoning district, is appropriate to implement <br />the Metro Plan's Rural Industrial designation. <br />Commercial or industrial development shall take place within the UGB, unless such <br />development: <br />Is necessary for the continuation of existing commercial or industrial operations, <br />including plant or site expansion; <br />Will be located in an adopted exception area; and <br />Can be adequately served with rural level services (defined in Policy G.27 in Chapter <br />III-G). <br />The minimum lot size for rural residential areas shall be five acres. <br />Exceptions <br />All new exceptions to, or expansion of, adopted exceptions onto rural resource lands or <br />residential, commercial, industrial, or government non-resource Metro Plan Diagram <br />designations or uses outside the UGB require application of Metro Plan amendment procedures <br />6 As a result of actions taken by all three jurisdictions in 2013, there are no lands outside the UGB within the Metro <br />Plan bowldary on the east side of Interstate 5. Lane County Ordinance No. PA 1281 (Jwle. 2013): Springfield <br />Ordinance No. 6288 (March 2013). Eugene Ordinance No. 20511 (May. 2013). <br />Laurel Ridge Record (Z 15-5) Page 620 <br />