which provides that "commercial area entrance driveways should be provided with a minimum <br />eight-foot-wide planting strip between the entry drive and the parking areas." <br />Initially, VRI does not explain why this is an applicable approval criterion. EC 9.8815(4) <br />includes "use management considerations." It is not clear that Commercial Area Design Policy 10 <br />is a "use management consideration." Even if it is, however, as the applicant points out the policy <br />uses the word "should" in reference to planting strips. Therefore, Commercial Area Design Policy <br />10 is not a mandatory requirement but an aspirational one. Furthermore, due to the nature of the <br />flag pole driveway, this is exactly the type of situation where such a policy should not be <br />specifically required. Even if WAP Commercial Area Design Policy 10 applies, the application <br />does not violate the policy. <br />11. Willamette Greenwav Permit <br />The Willamette Greenway Permit requirement of EC 9.8815(1) provides: <br />"To the greatest possible degree, the intensification, change of use, or <br />development will provide the maximum possible landscaped area, open space, <br />or vegetation between the activity and the river." <br />VRI argues that the application proposes to develop 40 to 50 percent of the Willamette <br />Greenway area on the property. According to VRI, developing that much of the Greenway would <br />not provide the maximum possible landscaped area, open space, or vegetation between the activity <br />and the river. The applicant responds by citing to prior Hearings Official decisions interpreting <br />this provision. In Goodpasture Partners a former Hearings Official explained: <br />"The provision does not ask whether the activity itself would provide maximum <br />landscaped area, open space, or vegetation; rather, the measuring area is the land <br />between the activity and the river, not the activity itself. The staff report <br />accurately states that there would be no change to the landscaped area, open <br />space or vegetation between the activity and the river." WB 10-03 p 4. <br />(Emphases in original.) <br />While I am not sure what else could be between the development and the river besides <br />landscaping, open space, or vegetation, the provision does consider the area "between the activity <br />and the river." VRI argues that the hotel could be moved out of the Willamette Greenwav zone to <br />maxnnize landscaped areas, open space, and vegetation. The previous cases illustrate that the <br />proposed development can be located in the Willamette Greenway area without violating EC <br />Hearings Official Decision (WG 16-1/SR 16-1/ARB 16-3) 14 <br />