Eugene Ordinance Exhibit J <br />[Lane County Ordinance Exhibit G] <br />Statewide Planning Goal 14 - Urbanization 17 <br />OAR Chapter 660, Division 24 <br />Statewide Planning Goal 14 "To provide for an orderly and efficient transition <br />from rural to urban land use, to accommodate urban population and urban <br />employment inside urban growth boundaries, to ensure efficient use of land, <br />and to provide for livable communities." <br />Urban Growth Boundaries <br />Urban growth boundaries shall be established and maintained by cities, counties and regional <br />governments to provide land for urban development needs and to identify and separate urban and <br />urbanizable land from rural land. Establishment and change of urban growth boundaries shall be a <br />cooperative process among cities, counties and, where applicable, regional governments. <br />Prior to 2011, the Cities of Eugene and Springfield shared a single, regional UGB. Actions taken by the <br />City of Springfield and Lane County in 2011 established a new UGB line along 1-5 that resulted in two <br />UGBs. Since that time, both cities have worked to ensure that their separate UGBs include enough land <br />to accommodate their independent populations for 20 years. <br />With this action of the City of Eugene and Lane County, Eugene is adopting a precise location for its UGB <br />line, and expanding its UGB to provide land for its urban development needs for employment, parks and <br />schools until 2032. <br />An urban growth boundary and amendments to the boundary shall be adopted by all cities within the <br />boundary and by the county or counties within which the boundary is located, consistent with <br />intergovernmental agreements, except for the Metro regional urban growth boundary established <br />pursuant to ORS chapter 268, which shall be adopted or amended by the Metropolitan Service <br />District. <br />Eugene is the only City within the Eugene UGB, located entirely within Lane County. The amendments to <br />the City of Eugene's UGB are being adopted by the City of Eugene and Lane County. <br />17 Amendments to Statewide Planning Goal 14 and its administrative rules at OAR 660-024 took effect on January <br />1, 2016. The City of Eugene is not required to address the amendments for purposes of its UGB work, pursuant to <br />HB 4126 (2016) and OAR 660-024-0000(4), which provides: "The rules in this division adopted on December 4, <br />2015, are effective January 1, 2016, except that a local government may choose to not apply the amendments to <br />rules in this division adopted December 4, 2015 to a plan amendment concerning the amendment of a UGB, <br />regardless of the date of that amendment, if the local government initiated the amendment of the UGB prior to <br />January 1, 2016." <br />41 <br />May 2017 <br />