Eugene Hearings Official <br />June 29, 2016 <br />Page 5 <br />Consistent with the Adjustment Review requests described above in relation to EC <br />9.2170(4)(b)(4), the applicant requests concurrent Adjustment Review approval in response to <br />EC 9.2173(4)(a), as permitted by EC 9.2173(12). As with the requests described above, the <br />findings presented below address the site's frontage along Valley River Drive and Delta <br />Highway/I-105. <br />9.8030 Adjustment Review - Approval Criteria. The planning director shall <br />approve, conditionally approve, or deny an adjustment review application. <br />Approval or conditional approval shall be based on compliance with the following <br />applicable criteria. <br />(6) Large Commercial Facilities Standards Adjustment. Where this land use <br />code provides that the large commercial facilities standards may be adjusted, the <br />standards may be adjusted upon finding that the design contributes to one or more <br />of the following: <br />(a) Improving the appearance and function of large commercial facilities. <br />(b) Encouraging efficient use of land resources and urban services. <br />(c) Encouraging mixed use. <br />(d) Supporting transportation options. <br />(e) Promoting detailed, human-scale site and building design. <br />As discussed above and in the submitted application narrative, development of the site is <br />constrained by its irregular dimensions, the Water Resource Overlay setback, limited <br />opportunities for vehicular and pedestrian access, and the presence of an existing stormwater <br />drainage and utility easement that occupies 26,000 square feet of the 2.2 acre site. These <br />conditions dictate where the proposed hotel can be placed within the site, and significantly <br />constrain the options for providing access and circulation to and within the site. <br />Allowing parking and circulation areas to be located between the hotel and the site's frontages <br />along Valley River Drive and Delta Highway/I-105 reconciles these limitations and encourages <br />the efficient use of land resources and urban services. The site is zoned C-2 and is expected to <br />develop consistent with the uses and magnitude of development allowed in that zone. As <br />discussed in the concurrent Site Review application, the proposed use is allowed in the C-2 zone, <br />and the design of the hotel and related site improvements achieves substantial conformance with <br />the applicable standards. If parking and circulation areas were not allowed between the hotel and <br />the site's frontages along Valley River Drive and Delta Highway/I-105, roughly 56,000 square <br />feet, or 64 percent of the site would be unavailable to support development of the hotel. As <br />discussed above, the entirety of this square-footage is either separated from Valley River Drive <br />by an existing parking and circulation area for the McGrath's Fish House restaurant, or vertically <br />