The area north of Clear Lake Road that supplements this area would complete the needed portfolio of <br />sites. This would reduce the urban/rural interface from 6.0 miles along this stretch to 3.4 miles due to <br />additional lands incorporated, noted below. This option would require the inclusion of nine small tax <br />lots and part of one tax lot totaling 58.8 acres that are otherwise not under consideration as would be <br />required under Option 1, but it would also require the inclusion of a significant number of additional <br />unneeded acres due to a larger rural island that would otherwise be created. Because the school <br />expansion connects to Clear Lake Road, and City policy requires that the urban growth boundary include <br />bordering rights-of-way, this expansion option would also require the inclusion of all land east of the <br />school expansion and south of Clear Lake Road, or 362.2 acres. Some of this land (222.1 acres) is under <br />consideration for a park expansion, but the remaining 140.1 acres taken in by this expansion, plus the <br />58.8 acres north of Clear Lake Road and the 5.3 acres on Green Hill Road (for a total of 204.2 acres up to <br />a possible 462.3 acres depending on park expansion proposals) would not meet any established need. <br />This option is extremely inefficient. <br />Factor 2: Orderly and economic provision of public facilities and services <br />As a three-area expansion, this option would require planning of public facilities and services with three <br />different sets of conditions and timing, reducing the efficiency and orderliness of providing services as <br />development requires. <br />Factor 3: Comparative environmental, energy, economic, and social consequences <br />Environmental: The Green Hill-focused expansion option contains some scattered Goal 5 protected <br />areas and two areas constrained by the Special Hazard Flood Area. The two northern sites are also <br />adjacent to the West Eugene Wetlands area. These environmental constraints would require additional <br />guidelines or regulation to mitigate potential consequences. Overall environmental consequences from <br />this expansion option would be neutral to slightly negative. <br />Energy: Portions of this expansion area would promote energy efficiencies through proximity to the <br />airport and transportation corridors, and relative proximity to various residential areas. The divided <br />nature of the expansion option would limit energy efficiency opportunities for transit. Overall energy <br />consequences from this expansion option would be neutral. <br />Economic: This expansion option would create additional industrial employment land, as all expansions <br />would. Providing public services to the three areas would be comparatively costly, creating negative <br />economic consequences. The overall economic consequences of this expansion option are neutral. <br />Social: This expansion option would impact very few residents, and would not include land adjacent to <br />the proposed school expansion. Additional employment sites near but not directly adjacent to <br />residential neighborhoods provide a positive social consequence. Expanding onto Site P4.6b for <br />industrial purposes would potentially limit the viability of the non-profit animal shelter currently in <br />operation on this site. Overall social consequences of expanding into this area for industrial use would <br />be neutral to positive. <br />Appendix B to Findings May 2017 Page 136 <br />