Employment, Parks, Schools Ordinance (County) (all other)- Planning Commission Recommendation (3 of 4)

Eugene Ordinance Exhibit J -Appendix B [Lane County Ordinance Exhibit G - Appendix B] UGB Expansion Analysis for Employment Land This UGB Expansion Analysis for Employment Land sets out the standards and process by which the City of Eugene has identified the land to be added to Eugene's urban growth boundary ("UGB") for future industrial use. The additional urbanizable industrial land will complete the City's buildable land inventory ("BLI") to provide employment opportunities for Eugene's growing population through 2032. The City's Employment Land Supply Study, adopted as an appendix to the Envision Eugene Comprehensive Plan, establishes the need to expand the UGB to add more industrial land. Part I of the Employment Land Supply Study identifies the supply of employment land within the UGB in 2012. Part II of that Study is the City's Economic Opportunities Analysis ("EOA"), which concludes the City will need additional commercial and industrial employment land to meet the needs of the growing population through 2032. The EOA identifies the number of additional sites that are needed, and the characteristics those sites will need. Considering the additional land need that results from public and semi-public uses that occur on employment land (addressed in Part III of the Employment Land Supply Study), and the measures the City has taken since 2012 to increase the supply of employment land within the UGB (addressed in Part V of the Employment Land Supply Study), the City is still deficient in employment land as follows: • 2 industrial sites of 75 acres or larger; • 3 industrial sites of between 50 and 75 acres; • 2 industrial sites of between 20 and 50 acres; and • 4 industrial sites of between 10 and 20 acres. State statutes, rules and court decisions set up a highly prescriptive set of standards that must be applied to the City's selection of land to address its industrial land deficit.' The standards described in this Section II are set out in order of their application. In Section III, below, the City explains how the City applied the standards to determine which land to include in its UGB to address the deficit in industrial employment land. The primary regulation that governs the procedure for evaluating land for any UGB expansion is set out at ORS 197.298. ORS 197.298 is implemented more specifically through Statewide Planning Goal 14, the Goal 14 administrative rules at OAR 660-024. For a UGB expansion to address a deficit of industrial land, ' Amendments to Statewide Planning Goal 14 and its administrative rules at OAR 660-024 took effect on January 1, 2016. The amended versions do not apply to the City of Eugene for purposes of this UGB work, pursuant to FIB 4126 (2016) and OAR 660-024-0000(4) ("The rules in this division adopted on December 4, 2015, are effective January 1, 2016, except that a local government may choose to not apply the amendments to rules in this division adopted December 4, 2015 to a plan amendment concerning the amendment of a UGB, regardless of the date of that amendment, if the local government initiated the amendment of the UGB prior to January 1, 2016.") Appendix B to Findings May 2017 Page 1 This deficit must be addressed through an expansion of the City's UGB.