1400 Cross Street LLCPage 2of 16 <br />Refinement Plan Amendment <br />Map 17-04-25-41, Tax Lot 7000; Map 17-04-25-42, Tax Lot 100 <br />October 23, 2020 <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />In May 1978, the Eugene City Council adopted the Whiteaker Refinement Plan and implementation <br />priorities. Per Z-93-The 1978 Whiteaker Refinement Plan designated the area surrounded <br />by Cross Street, Polk Street and the Southern Pacific Railroad as being appropriate for light industrial <br />uses. The remainder of the area of request was designated as appropriate for mixed use <br /> <br />In 1987, Chef Francisco requested an amendment to the 1978 Whiteaker Refinement Plan to allow for an <br />expansion of its manufacturing plant on Railroad Avenue. The expansion added between 10,000 to <br />12,000 square feet of plant space to their existing facility at 1400 Cross Street but required additional <br />employee parking. Chef Francisco requested that three of the tax lots they owned across the street (map <br />and tax lots 17-04-25-41, 5900, 6000, and 6100) that were designated Medium-Density Residential in the <br />Whiteaker Plan and zoned R-2 Limited Multiple-Family Residential, be rezoned to Mixed Use so that <br />parking could be put on the lots. Parking lots were prohibited in R-2. The refinement plan amendment <br />was approved so Chef Francisco could add 100 employees to the Eugene facility instead of closing the <br />Eugene plant. Emerald Village now sits on those tax lots and benefited from the rezoning of these <br />properties to mixed-use. <br /> <br />By 1993, the City was in the process of adopting the current Whiteaker Refinement Plan. Staff Notes from <br />the Eugene Planning Commission Public Hearing for the South Sladden Zone Change Request (Z-93-25 <br />and Z-93-26) note that the zone changes to redesignate the 1400 Cross Street site from I-2 to I-2/SR was <br />consistent with the Metro Plan. As Chef Francisco was still in operation at the site, there appears to have <br />Whiteaker Plan Implementation (Z-93-25, Z-93-26) <br />10/04/93 <br />been no discussion at that time that the industrial designation needed to change. <br /> <br />As for mixed use in general, the Metro Plan text at that time indicated that the basis for determining where <br />mixed uses are appropriate at a local level is through refinement plans. Per Z-93-025 (pg. 141) the Metro <br />Plan text (1987) includes the following description of the Mixed Use land use category: <br /> <br /> <br />th <br />The Satre Group -www.satregroup.com <br /> <br />