➢ Efficiency Gained: Together, Measures 4 and 5, along with market incentives and <br />pressures, should gain 331 retail jobs or about 18 acres.' <br />5. Brownfield / Parcel Assemb <br />Applicability: This measure affects any type of Industrial land that is a brownfield site or <br />perceived brownfield site in Eugene or other smaller Industrial land sites. <br />Assumptions: One to three 10 acre or greater in size Industrial sites will become available for <br />development through brownfield remediation efforts or by assembling smaller Industrial parcels <br />into 10 acre or larger parcels, therefore reducing the need for a UGB expansion for industrial <br />uses. <br />Analysis: Two efforts will address this. In 2013, the Eugene/Springfield/Lane County Brownfields <br />Coalition received over half a million dollars in funding from the federal government to <br />inventory and assess potential brownfield sites. This funding positions the metro area to <br />establish a brownfields program and begin to see cleanup and re-development of key <br />properties. In Eugene, work is focused on the downtown, west Eugene, and the Highway 99 <br />industrial areas. Vacant or underused properties can be redeveloped into residential, <br />commercial, or industrial uses, helping to re-use land inside the existing UGB and reduce the <br />amount of UGB expansion. In the past two years, the Brownfields Coalition has completed an <br />inventory of 400 sites, identified priority areas of focus, and conducted site assessments on 13 <br />properties. <br />Additionally, Eugene's 2012 Employment Land Supply identified 404 acres of Industrial land sites <br />that are less than 10 acres in size. Based on the 2012 Employment Land Supply at Part I of this <br />Study and on capacity and demand assumptions in the EOA at Part II, the City has a surplus of <br />about 121 acres on industrial sites that are less than 10 acres in size, some of which could be <br />consolidated into larger sites. <br />The 121 acre Industrial small site surplus is reduced by approximately 102 acres to create <br />additional capacity for commercial uses (see measure 1, Table 3 above). As documented in the <br />EOA, ECONorthwest found that it is reasonable to assume that three sites 10-20 acres would be <br />made available through these measures (brownfield redevelopment and parcel assembly). As an <br />example, in conservative estimate,9 45 acres of the 121 acre surplus could create the three sites <br />of 10-20 acres based on the three sites having an average site size of 15 acres. <br />' The conversion of jobs to acres uses the same employees per acre assumption used to calculate capacity on <br />employment land; 68 EPA for (non-retail) commercial jobs and 23 EPA for retail jobs. All of these jobs are assumed <br />to be retail (not office) jobs. 331 jobs divided by 23 EPA is 14.39 acres. This 14.39 acres divided by 0.8 acre for the <br />net-to-gross conversion results in the total estimate of 17.99 acres of additional Industrial capacity. <br />' This estimate assumes that the site assembly will occur among the surplus of sites that are less than 10 acres in <br />size. However, it is also possible that all three sites will be derived from sites 10 acres or larger in size that are <br />developed brownfield clean-up sites that are not included in the 2012 Employment Land Supply and thus would <br />not deduct from the surplus of sites less than 10 acres in size. <br />Employment Land Supply Study I Draft February 2017 Part IV- Page 11 <br />