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Eugene Hearing Official November 23, 2015 Page 15 a. Impacts of shifting to the partition process. The City is suggesting that the applicant can take the longer, slower, more expensive way around the block to get to exactly where it says the applicant can't go under the Needed Housing PUD process. The process is slower because there would be three complete rounds of applications and approvals needed from the City. That would be: the first partition creating three parcels; the second round of partitions creating a total of nine; and the third creating the tenth. These three discrete steps would take a lot longer than the process anticipated here. Each partition approval involves a tentative approval and then a separate review for final platting. The PUD process anticipates a tentative PUD application, which can become final in conjunction with the tentative subdivision approval; final subdivision platting follows. Put differently, the PUD process involves 1.5 rounds of processing (tentative PUD; final PUD/tentative subdivision; and final plat), while the partition approach involves three rounds of processing. Aside from the three rounds of applications rather than 1.5, there are other aspects of the partition approach that slow down the entire process of preparing applications for submission. Initially, five discrete applications are needed, rather than just the PUD and associated subdivision. This means five separate application packages need to be assembled by the applicant's professionals, including five discrete tentative and final plat maps. There is also additional planning work that comes with the partition process. For example, each partition application must include a conceptual buildout plan for the balance of the site that demonstrates how lots larger than 13,500 sq ft could be further divided down to lots that comply with the size limitations in the code. This approval standard is in EC 9.8220(6): On R-1 zoned property, if the partition results in a parcel greater than 13,500 square feet in size based on EC 9.2761(5)(b), the application shall indicate the location of parcel lines and other details of layout that show future division may be made without violating the requirements of this land use code and without interfering with the orderly extension of adjacent streets, bicycle paths, and accessways. Any restriction of buildings within future street, bicycle path, and accessway locations shall be made a matter of record in the tentative plan approval. The lot size standard requiring a conceptual buildout plan for the balance of the property at the time of each partition submission appears in EC 9.2761(5)(b): Exceptions to the maximum lot size shall be granted if any of the following is met: * * * * The lot exceeding the maximum lot size is intended to reserve a large lot for future land division with feasibility demonstrated by a conceptual buildout plan.