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buildings. To ensure compliance with these plan components, the staff recommends they be made conditions of this approval. While these restrictions exceed those which the code would otherwise require to ensure compliance, implementation of the Regulatory Plan will ensure that all future development will protect visual access, in compliance with this policy and, therefore, the requested condition is warranted. The attorney representing some of the opponents argued that a parking structure identified in the Master Plan in the southern portion of the site, near Riverfront Parkway, may block visual access to the riparian area along the river, in violation of this policy. The parking structure is conceptual at this point, and must be evaluated against then applicable development standards at such time as it is proposed. However, the applicant’s Regulatory Plan includes height and coverage limitations beyond what is otherwise allowed under the code. Compliance with the Regulatory Plan will ensure visual access is protected, in compliance with this criterion. (2) Criteria for Development Within Willamette Greenway Boundaries. (a) Compliance with the criteria in EC 9.3725(1) Criteria for all Development above. The above findings demonstrate that the requested Master Plan complies with the criteria of EC 9.3725(1). (b) The height and bulk of the proposed development shall be designed to consider the impacts on public open space, especially the buffer strips along the Willamette River and Millrace, and to adhere to the height limitations specified along the Willamette River. Building setbacks shall be varied to avoid the effect of a continuous wall along the minimum setback line and to adhere to the requirement for protection of designated features (i.e., Millrace and pedestrian linkage to the Autzen Stadium footbridge). The Willamette River adjacent to the North Campus site is identified as a Goal 5 Water Resource. The Willamette River is a Category A resource, with a required 100-foot setback. In addition, the Riverfront Park/Millrace is a Category A Wetland on the Goal 5 Inventory, with a required 50-foot setback. As discussed above, the requested Master Plan includes a 200-foot setback to buffer any future development from the Willamette River and the Millrace, well beyond the setbacks otherwise required. As also noted above, the applicant’s proposed Regulatory Plan (Sheet L01) includes more stringent development regulations than are required by the Eugene Land Use Code to facilitate riparian restoration, open space improvements, and protection of view sheds. As ensured through a condition of this approval, that Regulatory Plan includes maximum building coverage well below that allowed in the S-RP zone for the area north of the railroad tracks, and limits building height in most of this area below the height limitation of the Eugene Land Use Code. For areas south of the tracks, the S-RP zone has no height limitation. However, the Regulatory Hearings Official Decision (CU 18-1; WG 18-2) 13