Employment, Parks, Schools Ordinance (City)- Planning Commission Recommendation (3 of 4)

Eugene Ordinance Exhibit J [Lane County Ordinance Exhibit G] those attributes that are reasonably necessary to the successful operation of particular industrial or employment uses, in the sense that they bear some important relationship to that operation." Id. Based on such information, the City identified site characteristics in the EOA. The EOA, Part II of the Employment Land Supply Study, addresses "Site Needs for Target Industries" in its section 6.2. For purposes of its evaluation of land, the City of Eugene chose to include only the most essential site characteristics identified through data and studies cited by ECONorthwest in the City's EOA: those focused on minimum acreage needs and proximity to a freight route. The EOA contains detailed information justifying these site characteristics for the different types of employment-generating development that Eugene is expecting to attract based on its economic development strategy. In addition to relying on the expertise of the City's EOA consultant (ECONorthwest), the City worked with the Eugene Chamber of Commerce to identify the reasons that employers needed by Eugene have rejected Eugene's employment land in the past, in terms of site suitability. The City also received information from current employers, with first-hand knowledge of site needs. Specifically, the expansion sites needed in Eugene must: Be a contiguous area comprised of one or two tax lots that could accommodate one of the following:' • an industrial site of 75 acres or larger (Eugene needs to add 2 such sites) • an industrial site of between 50 and 75 acres (Eugene needs to add 3 such sites) • an industrial site of between 20 and 50 acres (Eugene needs to add 2 such sites) • an industrial site of between 10 and 20 acres (Eugene needs to add 4 such sites) Have access via existing or planned roads, within 1 mile of the site, to a State Designated Freight Route (see State Highway Freight System map inset below).10 State Designated Freight Routes within one mile of the study area are: • Interstate 5 • Interstate 105 west of 1-5 • Randy Pape Beltline • Highway 99 north of Randy Pape Beltline • Highway 126 west of Randy Pape Beltline ' An unconstrained higher priority site that is too small to meet any of the size characteristics above, but is within a mile of access to a State Designated Freight Route is not dismissed from further consideration if it could possibly be combined with an adjacent lower priority site to meet the size criterion. For such sites, the analysis below specifies that the site will be considered further along with adjacent lower priority sites, to determine whether the inclusion of it in combination with a lower-priority site can reduce the need to expand onto lower priority land. io Access is measured from along existing or planned roads to access points for the routes, such as an intersection, entrance or exit. 25 May 2017