METRO PLAN AMENDMENT <br />The applicant's requested Metro Plan Amendment proposes to change the land use designation <br />of the subject property from Light-Medium Industrial to Mixed Use. It qualifies as a Type I <br />amendment as it only involves a change to the land use diagram and no text amendments to <br />the plan are proposed or required. The following findings address the applicable approval <br />criteria for the Metro Plan Amendment request: <br />EC 9.7735 (1): The proposed amendment is consistent with the relevant Statewide Planning <br />Goals. <br />Goal 1: Citizen Involvement - To develop a citizen involvement program that ensures <br />the opportunity for citizens to be involved in all phases of the planning process. <br />The City's provisions for citizen involvement ensure the opportunity for citizens to be involved <br />in all phases of the planning process and set out requirements for such involvement. The <br />proposal does not include any changes to the City's citizen involvement program. <br />The City's land use code implements Statewide Planning Goal 1 through its noticing <br />requirements, which include: <br />• A pre-application neighborhood/applicant meeting (01/23/2020) <br />• Notice to the Oregon Department of Land Conservation and Development (12/22/2020) <br />• Referrals and notice sent to Lane County and the City of Springfield (01/06/2021) <br />• Public notice for the Planning Commission public hearing to consider the applications, <br />which includes: mailing notice to interested parties and adjacent property owners <br />(12/24/2020); posting of the notice on-site (01/08/2021); and, publishing the notice in a <br />local newspaper (01/08/2021). <br />Consideration of the amendments and zone change began with a Planning Commission public <br />hearing on January 26, 2021, providing an opportunity for members of the public to provide <br />verbal testimony in additional to written comments. Following consideration and deliberations, <br />the Planning Commission will provide a recommendation to the City Council. The Eugene City <br />Council will then hold a public hearing to consider the proposal. Each public hearing will present <br />an opportunity for interested parties to provide testimony to the Planning Commission and City <br />Council for their consideration. <br />Based on these findings, the proposed Metro Plan Amendment is consistent with Statewide <br />Planning Goal 1. <br />Goal 2: Land Use Planning - To establish a land use planning process and policy <br />framework as a basis for all decision and actions related to use of land and to assure <br />an adequate factual base for such decisions and actions. <br />In accordance with Statewide Planning Goal 2, the requested Metro Plan Amendment is being <br />processed according to Eugene's land use code, which specifies the procedure and criteria for <br />Findings <br />MA-20-2 / RA 20-2 / Z-20-8 <br />