2 <br /> <br />Neighborhood Plan also calls for collaboration and continued or additional efforts and advocacy <br />from the River Road and Santa Clara Community Organizations and other community partners. A <br />non-regulatory Action Plan was developed with input from the community; however, as the Action <br />Plan is not a land use regulation, is not regulatory in nature, and will not be adopted by either the <br />Eugene City Council or the Lane County Board of Commissioners, these findings need not and do not <br />address compliance of the Action Plan with land use approval criteria. <br />As part of the acknowledgment process for the 1982 Metro Plan, the Oregon Land Conservation and <br />Development Commission provided direction that a serving plan be developed for both River Road <br />and Santa Clara and that City of Eugene provide those services. This direction was memorialized in <br />text and policy language in the 1982 Metro Plan. After the 1987 River Road-Santa Clara Urban <br />Facilities Plan was adopted, the River Road-Santa Clara specific text was revised in 1987 to reflect <br />adoption of that plan, and moved into Chapter II Section F of the Metro Plan, “River Road and Santa <br />Clara Goals, Findings, Objectives, and Policies,” with the intention that the policies would lead to the <br />delivery of urban services to the River Road and Santa Clara areas, most specifically wastewater <br />service. <br />In 1980, the Oregon Environmental Quality Commission (EQC) concluded that a public health hazard <br />existed for people using the River-Road Santa Clara aquifer, resulting from individual septic tank <br />disposal systems. The 1987 Urban Facilities Plan and the Chapter II Section F Metro Plan policies <br />address the extension of wastewater service to the area in order to address the groundwater <br />pollution problem. Since the 1987 Urban Facilities Plan and the Chapter II Section F Metro Plan <br />policies were adopted, additional planning tools have been made available for planning for <br />wastewater and other urban services, for example Eugene’s Wastewater Master Plan, the Capital <br />Improvement Program, and the regional Public Facilities and Services Plan. Consistent with the <br />policy direction contained in the 1987 Urban Facilities Plan and Chapter II Section F of the Metro <br />Plan, wastewater has been extended throughout the area. As a result, the properties in the River <br />Road and Santa Clara basins are fully served with wastewater service, with the exception of the <br />eastern fringe, and some limited in-fill. For these reasons, the 1987 Urban Facilities Plan is proposed <br />to be repealed and Chapter II Section F from the Metro Plan is proposed for removal. <br />Additionally, a set of proposed amendments to the City of Eugene’s Land Use Code which would <br />apply within the city limits in the River Road and Santa Clara areas are also included in the proposed <br />adoption package. The Code Amendments only apply within the City of Eugene and therefore will <br />only be adopted by the City of Eugene. The proposed code amendments are not addressed in these <br />findings. The Eugene City Council will adopt a separate ordinance and set of findings in order to <br />approve the proposed code amendments. These findings only address the Metro Plan amendments <br />that must be adopted by both the Eugene City Council and the Lane County Board of <br />Commissioners. <br /> <br />Metro Plan Amendment Criteria <br /> <br />City of Eugene Criteria <br />EC 9.7735 Metro Plan Amendments – Criteria for Approval. <br />(1) The proposed amendment is consistent with the relevant Statewide Planning Goals; and