Attachment A <br />While these two areas are some of the few major development opportunities for undeveloped <br />and partially developed properties, many other properties throughout the Willamette River <br />Greenway that are categorized as "developed" may be suitable for infill or redevelopment. <br />Therefore, applying standards consistently throughout the Willamette River Greenway is <br />important as properties continue to develop and redevelop incrementally over time. <br />Topic 4: Public Access Points - Mapping and Related Standards <br />As part of the proposed clear and objective approval criteria, EC 9.8812(4)(a)2. would require <br />multi-unit housing' developments to provide a public accessway connecting to other existing <br />public ways along the Willamette River, so long as the City can demonstrate consistency with <br />constitutional requirements, if the property is located more than 500 feet from a mapped <br />Public Access Point. <br />At the January 10, 2023 public hearing, staff provided the Planning Commission with a map <br />showing mapped Public Access Points and identifying which properties were more than 500 <br />feet from those public access points. The map was intended to demonstrate which properties <br />would likely be subject to the access requirement. Following the public hearing, Commissioner <br />Behling noted that the map did not appear to accurately capture properties within 500 feet of a <br />public access point in all cases. In response this comment, staff revisited the methodology used <br />to create the Public Access Points4. During this review, it came to light that the original <br />methodology used to establish the location of public access points overlooked a number of <br />public access points and primarily included locations where a right-of-way or accessway <br />intersected the boundary of the Willamette River Greenway. <br />Since the public hearing, staff has worked to create a new set of mapped Public Access Points, <br />which can be seen in the maps provided in Attachment A.4. These points were established <br />using the refined methodology described and included in Attachment A.4, which was <br />thoroughly reviewed to ensure accurate and consistent methods for identifying Public Access <br />Points. An updated map of properties located more than 500 feet from a mapped Public Access <br />Point is included in Attachment A.4. One major takeaway of this exercise is that over the years <br />the City has established excellent public access to the riverfront path network to and along the <br />Willamette River throughout the Greenway. This is evidenced by the very few properties that <br />are identified as being more than 500 feet from a mapped Public Access Point. <br />Based on the new mapping, staff recommends that a map similar to the one shown in <br />Attachment A.4, identifying specific tax lots that are more than 500 feet from an established <br />public access point, be added as an exhibit to the final ordinance. This would allow users to look <br />at the map, find their property, and it would be clearly identified as either within or not within <br />s Multi-Unit Housing is defined as one or more buildings on a single lot or parcel containing 5 or more dwellings in <br />any configuration (See EC 9.0500). As the access requirement applies to Multi-Unit Housing only, the proposed <br />access requirement at EC 9.8812(4) would not be applicable to single-unit dwellings or middle housing. <br />4 Public Access Points were originally defined in the methodology as a point "where right-of-way intersects with <br />multi-use path connections." <br />Page 6 of 13 <br />Page 11 of 65 <br />