2.5 Recommended Code and Development Standard Amendment Concepts <br />This report identifies preferred development code amendment concepts that were generated <br />through a review of previous public input, studies and reports, input received during public land <br />use workshops, and through input received from the Community Advisory Committee and <br />Technical Advisory Committee. <br />The recommendations outlined in Table 2 on page 33 represent a synthesis of possible <br />development code and zoning options guided by the land use and development preferences <br />identified in the public workshops. <br />The ND Overlay Zone currently applies to a portion of the study area. The same zone with the <br />same development standards applies to five other areas within the City also identified for nodal <br />development. Many of the code and development standard amendment concepts identified in <br />Table 2 are different than the existing ND Overlay Zone. <br />Chapter 9.3000 of the Eugene Code provides for Special Area Zones (S Zones). Special Area <br />Zones provide procedures and criteria for recognition of areas of the city that possess <br />distinctive buildings or natural features that have significance for the community and require <br />special consideration or implementation of conservation and development measures that <br />cannot be achieved through application of the standard base zones. S Zones can act as an <br />overlay to standard base zones or as unique zones specific to a neighborhood, and any <br />standards or requirements defined in an S Zone. For this area, the working assumption is that <br />the existing base zones are appropriate, so an S Overlay Zone would be customized for the <br />area. <br />It is recommended that the ND Overlay Zone (Map on page 30) within the study area be <br />removed, and that a new S Zone (Map on page 31) be adopted that would include some of the <br />ND Overlay requirements and additional standards and requirements that are tailored to the <br />lower River Road area. See Figure 4 for a recommended boundary for a new S Zone <br />designation. This is an overarching code and development standard amendment <br />recommendation, and could effectively implement any or all of the more specific concepts <br />found in Table 2. <br />Table 2 contains a series of recommended code and development standard concepts. The <br />amendment concepts are preceded by objectives so that it is clearly understood what the <br />amendment concepts are meant to achieve. The concepts are organized first by a number of <br />activities that apply to the Willamette Greenway and public parks within the area, general <br />amendments that potentially apply throughout a new Special Area Zone, then finally by specific <br />areas within the study area. <br />