point 1, then the subject property would be outside or possibly split by the goal 5 resource <br />mapped area. <br />Unsurprisingly, the applicant argues that the subject property is within the goal 5 mapped <br />resource area and Southeast Neighbors states that Figure H-2 is too vague to rely on. The Staff <br />Report initially stated that the property was within the Goal 5 resource mapped area, but <br />Staff's Aug. 22 memo stated that further review of Figure H-2 does not clearly show the subject <br />property within the Goal 5 mapped resource area. The hearings official concludes that the <br />subject property is included on the city's acknowledged Goal 5 inventory for Scenic Areas for <br />two reasons. First, Figure H-2 shows the northern terminus of West Amazon within the <br />mapped resource area. In 1978, the date of the working paper and Figure H-2, the technology <br />to precisely map roads and other features did not exist in the way we expect precision in 2012. <br />The northern terminus of West Amazon is shown within the Goal 5 mapped resource area and <br />the subject property is south and west of this terminus point; thus Figure H-2 intends to show <br />the subject property within the mapped resource area. Second, the subject property contains <br />features corresponding to two of the standards that the city developed to identify specific <br />scenic sites in the Scenic Sites Working Paper at G-3-G-4 (attached as Exhibit 5 to Staff Memo <br />(Aug. 22, 2012). The subject property is a natural site of visual prominence (standard 1), and it <br />contains moving water (standard 3). For these reasons, the hearings official concludes the <br />subject property is within the Goal 5 mapped resource area. <br />if <br />L <br />Thus, despite a disagreement between the applicant's registered engineering geologist and <br />Southeast Neighbors' registered professional geologist about the stability of the subject <br />property, the proposal is exempt from the geotechnical analysis at this land use application <br />phase. The hearings official, however, notes that this exception does not exempt the applicant <br />Hearing Official Decision (PDT 10-2, CU 11-1) 27 <br />