23_09_15_Public Notice (Measure 56)

o Require buildings fronting River Road to provide a main entrance facing that street or to the corner where River Road and another street intersect. o Increase the minimum percentage of the street facing building fagade that must be within the maximum front yard setback, from 25% to 80%. o Require minimum percentage of windows along the ground floor of street facing facades and prohibit blank walls of more than 20 linear feet of any fagade. o Require weather protection features over all building entrances. • In the C-2 Community Commercial Zone, prohibits the establishment of the following uses: o Motor Vehicle Sales/Rental/Service, excluding recreational vehicles and heavy trucks o Motorcycle Sales/Rental/Service o Recreational Vehicles and Heavy Truck, Sales/Rental/Service . o Agricultural Machinery Rental/Sales/Service o Boat and Watercraft Sales/Service o Equipment, Heavy, Rental/Sales/Service — includes truck and tractor sales o Storage Facility, Household/Consumer Goods, enclosed • In the R-1 Low Density Residential Zone, allows for the display and sale of agricultural products grown offsite. These proposed code amendments will only apply to properties located within the boundaries of the River Road Community Organization and the Santa Clara Community Organization and within the city limits of the City of Eugene. More information regarding the River Road -Santa Clara neighborhood planning process, including the proposed code amendments, can be found at the project webpage: http://riverroad-santaclaraplan.org/. Procedures & Approval Criteria Following the October 17, 2023, public hearing, the Eugene Planning Commission will deliberate and make recommendations to the City Council about the proposed land use code amendments. The City Council will then hold its own public hearing, and make the final decision on the proposed code amendments. Separate notice of the City Council public hearing will be provided. City Council meeting dates are not yet finalized, but the City Council is expected to consider these proposed code amendments in early 2024. These land use code amendments will be processed using the Type V land use application procedures in EC 9.7500-9.7560. The City Council will be the final local decision -maker on the application. In making a recommendation on these proposed code amendments to the City Council, the Planning Commission will address the relevant approval criteria from the Eugene Code (EC) at 9.8065. Testimony and evidence submitted should be directed toward the applicable approval criteria from the Eugene Code noted above, or other criteria in the City's adopted plans or land use regulations or applicable state law that the person testifying believes to apply to the decision. At the October 17, 2023, public hearing, both the Eugene Planning Commission and the Lane County Planning Commission will also consider testimony on three additional land use actions related to the proposed code amendments. Those proposed actions are: 1) adoption of a new neighborhood plan for Measure 56 Mailed Notice: 09/15/2023 Page 2 of 4