community. Encourage the preservation and creation of affordable neighborhood <br />commercial space to support a broad range of small business owners across all <br />neighborhoods. <br />Each of the policies above come from Economic Development Chapter of the EE <br />Comprehensive Plan. The applicant contends that the proposed amendment will diversify <br />industrial and commercial uses permitted on the site as well which can better serve the <br />Whiteaker Neighborhood and broader Eugene community. The proposed amendment and <br />concurrent zone change will expand the variety of uses permitted on the property while <br />applying additional development standards meant to promote overall neighborhood <br />compatibility between otherwise noncompatible uses (i.e. low-density residential and <br />industrial). Based on these facts, the proposed amendment and concurrent zone change are <br />generally supported by the EE Economic Development policies cited above. <br />The Transportation chapter of Envision Eugene states that the Eugene 2035 Transportation <br />System Plan (TSP) serves as the transportation element for the comprehensive plan. As noted in <br />the findings related to Statewide Planning Goal 12, the Metro Plan Diagram amendment is <br />consistent with the City's TSP, and therefore consistent with the transportation element of <br />Envision Eugene. No transportation policies appear to be directly relevant to this site-specific <br />Metro Plan Amendment, nor do they serve as mandatory approval criteria for the amendment. <br />Based on these findings, the proposed Metro Plan Amendment is consistent with Envision <br />Eugene, the City's local comprehensive plan. <br />REFINEMENT PLAN AMENDMENT <br />The proposed Metro Plan Amendment also triggers the need for an amendment to the <br />Whiteaker Plan (WP), which is the applicable refinement plan for this area. The subject <br />property is located in the South Sladden Subarea, as identified in the WP. The WP's land use <br />diagram designates the property as Light-Medium Industrial. Per EC 9.7730(5)(b), since no text <br />amendment is required, the refinement plan designation would change automatically to Mixed <br />Use to remain consistent with the Metro Plan. This only occurs if the amendment to the Metro <br />Plan land use designation is approved. The following findings address the applicable approval <br />criteria for the related refinement plan amendment: <br />EC 9.8424(1): The refinement plan amendment is consistent with all of the following: <br />(a) Statewide planning goals. <br />The findings addressing consistency with the Statewide Planning Goals are included above <br />under Metro Plan Amendment approval criterion EC 9.7735(1), incorporated herein by <br />reference. Based on those findings, the proposal is consistent with the Statewide Planning <br />Goals. <br />Findings <br />MA-20-2 / RA 20-2 / Z-20-8 <br />