Attachment B <br />Exhibit B <br />Lane County Criteria <br />LC 12.300.030 Metro Plan Amendment Criteria <br />The following criteria will be applied by the Board of Commissioners and other applicable governing <br />body or bodies in approving or denying a Metro Plan amendment application: <br />A. The proposed amendment is consistent with the relevant Statewide Planning Goals; and <br />B. The proposed amendment does not make the Metro Plan internally inconsistent. <br />Consistency with Statewide Planning Goals <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 <br />Lane County Criteria <br />LC 12.300.030 Metro Plan Amendment Criteria <br />A. The proposed amendment is consistent with the relevant Statewide Planning Goals <br />Statewide Planning Goal 1 — Citizen Involvement. To develop a citizen involvement program that <br />insures the opportunity for citizens to be involved in all phases of the planning process. <br />The City's and County's acknowledged procedures for adoption of legislative land use decisions, located <br />in sections 9.7700 through 9.7735 (Metro Plan Amendment Procedures) of the Eugene Code, 1971, and <br />sections 12.300.005 through 12.300.035 (Eugene -Springfield Metropolitan Area General Plan Element) <br />of the Lane County Code, ensure the opportunity for community members to be involved in all phases of <br />the legislative land use decision process and set out the requirements for such involvement. <br />These Metro Plan amendments do not amend or affect either jurisdiction's state acknowledged citizen <br />involvement program. As addressed below, the process for adopting these Metro Plan amendments <br />complies with Goal 1 because it is consistent with the citizen involvement provisions cited above. <br />The City's citizen involvement program is adopted into the Eugene Code. The County's citizen <br />involvement program is adopted into the county regulations applicable to the Eugene urban transition <br />area (the area outside the city limits but within the urban growth boundary) and the Lane Code. Both <br />the City and County regulations include a formal land use review procedure with public notification, <br />meetings, and hearings. The public engagement actions for the neighborhood planning work were <br />completed consistently with the City's and County's acknowledged citizen involvement programs and <br />went beyond the requirements of those programs to ensure that citizens had opportunities to be <br />involved in the process. <br />This package of Metro Plan amendments has been the subject of extensive public involvement over the <br />course of several years. The document titled River Road -Santa Clara Neighborhood Plan Engagement <br />Summary attached to these Findings as Appendix 1 and hereby adopted as additional findings of <br />compliance with Goal 1, summarizes the public engagement efforts used to educate the public and <br />{00460822;1} <br />CC Agenda Page 50 March 12, 2024 JEO Public Hearing- Item 1 <br />