Eugene Planning Commission <br />January 4, 2017 <br />Page 3 of 5 <br />LUBA remanded the Coburg decision, in part, because it sought to exclude exception areas and <br />agricultural land with poorer agricultural soils in favor of land with higher quality agricultural <br />soils (and thus of lower priority) to meet residential and recreational needs. (Slip Op. at 46). <br />While LUBA remanded for the city to correct the respective findings, it issued the following <br />guidance regarding the nature of the established legal framework. <br />"In applying the Goal 14 Boundary Location Factors, [the City and County] must <br />do more than identify possible environmental, energy, economic or social <br />consequences, and possible incompatibilities with agricultural activities if exception <br />lands or poorer quality agricultural soils are included according to the ORS <br />197.298(1) priorities. [The City and County] must establish that such <br />considerations justify deviating from the statutory priorities, notwithstanding the <br />legislature's expressed preference for those priorities. [The City and County] <br />should not underestimate the difficulty of making such a demonstration." Id. (Slip <br />Op. at 47). <br />The same holds true for the decision the City of Eugene will make concerning its UGB. <br />Nonresource Land is in the Highest Priority for Inclusion in the UGB <br />Because there are no urban reserve lands in the Metro Plan area, the highest priority of lands for <br />inclusion into the City's UGB are those prescribed by ORS 197.298(1)(b) - exception areas, <br />nonresource land, and non-high value resource land surrounded by exception land. <br />As discussed further below, the ES&G property is either nonresource land or exception land, and <br />is therefore of the highest priority for the City to include in any UGB expansion proposal. <br />The Oregon Administrative Rules provide definitions for "Resource Land" and "Nonresource <br />Land." OAR 660-004-0005 Definitions provides: <br />"2) "Resource Land" is land subject to one or more of the statewide goals listed <br />in OAR 660-004-0010(1)(a) through (g) except subsections (c) and (d). <br />"(3) "Nonresource Land" is land not subject to any of the statewide goals listed <br />in OAR 660-004-0010(1)(a) through (g) except subsections (c) and (d). Nothing <br />in these definitions is meant to imply that other goals, particularly Goal 5, do <br />not apply to nonresource land." <br />The statewide goals identified in the above definitions listed in OAR 660-004-0010 include: <br />"(a) Goal 3 "Agricultural Lands" . <br />"(b) Goal 4 "Forest Lands" . <br />"(e) Goal 16 "Estuarine Resources" . <br />"(f) Goal 17 "Coastal Shorelands...... <br />