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Hearings Official Decision (PDT 24-1; ST 24-3) 10 listed on the City’s adopted Goal 5 Water Resources Inventory, the subject property was not a part of the City’s Goal 5 inventory. The applicant did not address the 2005 ordinance on which the City relies. Rather, the applicant argued the 1982 acknowledged Metro Plan demonstrates that the subject property was not part of the acknowledged Goal 5 inventory; and that the staff’s assertion (that the site is mapped as a Goal 5 “natural Site of Visual Prominence and Prominent and Plentiful Vegetation”) is not backed up with acknowledgement documents and in fact is contrary to what was acknowledged. The applicant explained in its written testimony: “Any acknowledged Goal 5 resource in this area must be referenced to an acknowledged map. The DLCD Staff Report (July 29, 1982) at page 10, 15 summarizes what was required for Goal 5 acknowledged and how the City complied: Requirement 1. Amend the Metro Plan to include a consolidated natural resource map or maps which clearly define the location of sites where conflicting uses are prohibited or limited. [Emphasis added.] Figures 1, 2 and D3 of the Working Papers are particularly relevant to this task. * * * [Emphasis added.] Response The Metro plan has been amended to include a consolidated natural resource map (Map 3, General Plan Technical Report.) In addition, very detailed site-specific maps of each resource site are provided in the amended Natural Resource working paper. Resources mapped include wetland vegetation, sand and gravel, significant vegetation and wildlife area, and slopes.” [Emphasis added.] Conclusion: The Eugene/Springfield area plan complies with Goal 5 for Lands within the Metropolitan UGB. “Staff’s statement that this site is an acknowledged Goal 5 resource (“Natural Site of Visual Prominence and Prominent and Plentiful Vegetation.”) needs to be supported by the acknowledged maps, beginning with “Map 3, General Plan Technical Report. We have attached hereto what we believe to be the acknowledged Map 3. It has a legend that shows property on Map 3 with a red box. Significant Vegetation is mapped as blue diagonal lines. None is mapped as being on this site.” (Bill Kloos July 10, 2024 Applicant’s Written Hearing Testimony, page 1-2.) In support of this position, the applicant attached the actual 1982 DLCD Goal 5 acknowledgement staff report as Exhibit D to the applicant’s July 31, 2024 post-hearing memorandum. However, in his August 14, 2024 response testimony, the applicant’s attorney reversed his position, and agreed with the City that the entire property was subject to the acknowledged Goal 5 inventory. In a footnote, the attorney stated: