PDF Page 20 <br />App-6 <br />Attachment A <br />DECISION OF THE HEARINGS OFFICIAL <br />FOR THE CITY OF EUGENE, OREGON <br />ZONE CHANGE REQUEST <br />Application File Name (Numbers): <br />Laurel Ridge PUD - Z 12-2, PDT 12-2, TIA 12-6, SDR.12-5 <br />Applicant's Request: <br />Zone change from AG/WR Agricultural with Water.Resources Overlay to R-1/WR, Low - <br />Density Residential with Water Resource Overlay. <br />Subject Property/Location: <br />Tax Lots 701 and 703 of As Map 18-03-10-00, approximately 122 acres located'at <br />the south end of the Laurel Hill Valley, north of 30th Avenue. <br />Relevant-Dates: <br />Zone Change application submitted on January 18, 2013; application deemed complete on <br />February 15, 2013; public hearings held on April 10, 2013 and April 24, 2013. Concurrent <br />land use applications for Tentative Planned Unit Development, Traffic Impact Analysis, and <br />Standards Review. <br />Applicant's Representatives: <br />Rick Satre, Schirmer Satre Group, Phone: 541-686-4540 <br />Lead City Staff: <br />Steve Ochs, Associate Planner, Eugene Planning Division, Phone: (541) 682-5453 <br />Summary of the Public Hearing. <br />The Hearings Official held a public hearing on this application on August 28, 2013. The Hearings <br />official stated he had no conflicts of interests and had no ex parte communications to disclose. <br />All the declarations required by ORS 197.763 were made. No person objected to the Hearings <br />Official conductingthe hearing. <br />Staff provided an overview of the staff report. Staff did not recommend approval of the zone <br />change because in staffs opinion the applicant had not adequately taken account of the Parks <br />and Open Space designation shown for the property on the Metro Plan Diagram. Therefore, <br />staff concluded that the application was inconsistent with the Metro Plan and Metro Plan <br />Diagram under EC 9.8865(1). For the same reason, the PUD application could not meet the <br />threshold requirement of consistency with the Metro Plan under EC 9:8320(1). <br />Hearings Official Decision Z 12-2, PDT 12-2, fIA 12-6, SDR 12-5 <br />Laurel Ridge Record (Z 15-5) 9 Page 824 <br />