would require additional guidelines or regulation to mitigate potential consequences. The cohesive <br />nature of the area would allow such regulations to be integrated into planning considerations. Overall <br />environmental consequences from expanding into this area for industrial use would be neutral.56 <br />Energy: This expansion option would promote energy efficiencies through proximity to the airport and <br />transportation corridors, and relative proximity to residential areas to the south. The cohesive nature of <br />the expansion option also increases energy efficiency opportunities for transit by including multiple <br />destinations in a single area. Overall energy consequences from expanding onto this site for industrial <br />use would be positive. <br />Economic: This expansion option would create additional industrial employment land, as all expansions <br />would. Comparative economic benefits of this expansion option include the efficiency of providing <br />services to a single area and the high level of connection to the current urban growth boundary. The <br />overall economic consequences of expanding the UGB for industrial uses in this location are positive. <br />Social: While expanding the UGB for industrial use in this area would impact very few residents, it could <br />have potentially negative social consequences for students exposed to traffic and other impacts of such <br />uses adjacent to proposed school expansion. These impacts would require planning to limit the intensity <br />of uses allowed in close proximity to the school facility. Additional employment sites near but not <br />directly adjacent to residential neighborhoods provide a positive social consequence. Overall social <br />consequences of expanding into this area for industrial use would be neutral to positive. <br />Factor 4: Compatibility of the proposed urban uses with nearby agricultural and forest <br />activities occurring on farm and forest land outside the UGB <br />The configuration of this area presents a unique opportunity to expand urban uses in such a way that no <br />agricultural or forest land would be adjacent to the expansion. The area north of Clear Lake Road is <br />bordered by the Eugene Airport, Airport Reserves, and Clear Lake Road itself. The school expansion <br />would transition between the industrial uses south of Clear Lake Road and farmland to the west. This <br />separation provides the highest level of compatibility with nearby agricultural and forest activities. <br />Focused Expansion Option 2. The second possible expansion area evaluated for the Goal 14 boundary <br />location factors focuses on the Green Hill Road area, which contains one 10-20 acre site, one 20-50 acre <br />site, and two additional 10-20 acre sites that could be combined to create a single 20-50 acre site. The <br />expansion option presented in the map "Focused Expansion Option: Green Hill Road" presents one <br />possible configuration of sites using all sites west of Green Hill Road and additional sites in the Clear <br />Lake area as needed to meet the full needed portfolio. Each of the Goal 14 boundary location factors are <br />evaluated for this expansion option below. <br />Factor 1: Efficient accommodation of identified land needs <br />This expansion option meets the entire portfolio of needed sites in three distinct expansion areas. <br />Expanding onto the two areas on Green Hill Road would increase the urban/rural interface from 0.6 <br />miles to 2.3 miles along those boundaries. This area would require the inclusion of one small tax lot <br />totaling 5.3 acres (between Sites P4.6c and P4.6d) that is otherwise not under consideration to avoid the <br />creation of a small island of rural land inside the UGB. <br />"This is addressed in more detail in the Addendum to this study. <br />Appendix B to Findings May 2017 Page 134 <br />