Exhibit A to Ordinance No. XXXXX 7 of 10 <br />Findings of Consistency <br />Goal 14 - Urbanization. To provide for an orderly and efficient transition from rural to urban <br />land use. <br /> <br />The stormwater development standards amendments do not affect the City’s provisions regarding the <br />transition of land from rural to urban uses. Therefore, Goal 14 does not apply. <br /> <br />Goal 15 - Willamette River Greenway. To protect, conserve, enhance and maintain the natural, <br />scenic, historical, agricultural, economic and recreational qualities of lands along the <br />Willamette River as the Willamette River Greenway. <br /> <br />The Willamette River Greenway area within the Eugene Urban Growth Boundary is governed by <br />existing local provisions which have been acknowledged as complying with Goal 15. Those <br />provisions are unchanged by the stormwater development standards amendments. Therefore, Goal <br />15 does not apply. <br /> <br />Goals 16 - 19. Estuarine Resources, Coastal Shorelands, Beaches and Dunes, and Ocean <br />resources. <br /> <br />There are no coastal, ocean, estuarine, or beach and dune resources related to lands affected by the <br />stormwater development standards code amendments. Therefore, the amendments will not affect <br />compliance with Statewide Planning Goals 16 through 19. <br /> <br />(2) The amendments are consistent with applicable provisions of the Metro Plan and <br />applicable adopted refinement plans. <br /> <br />Metro Plan <br />The Eugene-Springfield Metropolitan Area General Plan (Metro Plan) is the basic guiding land use <br />policy document for regional land use planning. The proposed stormwater development standards <br />amendments are consistent with the following Metro Plan Policies: <br /> <br />C. Environmental Resources Element <br />The proposed stormwater development standards amendments refine the City’s current stormwater <br />management code provisions to further reduce stormwater pollutant loading and runoff volume from <br />new development and re-development sites to the municipal stormwater system and downstream <br />receiving waters. The proposed amendments require development applicants to select stormwater <br />quality facilities from the Stormwater Management Manual based on the following priority order: <br />infiltration, extended filtration, off-site stormwater quality management. Each of these priorities is <br />described below: <br /> <br />1. Infiltration: On-site infiltration facilities (i.e. stormwater planters and rain gardens) reduce <br />pollutants through physical and biological processes to mitigate the volume, duration, time of <br />concentration, and rate of stormwater runoff. <br /> <br />2. Extended Filtration: On-site filtration facilities (i.e. stormwater planters, rain gardens, vegetative <br />and grassy swales, and filter strips) reduce pollutants through physical and biological processes and <br />Attachment A <br />Dated: November 6, 2024Agenda Page 22 of 27