Hearings Official Public Hearings
Regular MeetingEugene, OR · July 30, 2014
Agenda
AGENDA
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WEDNESDAY, JULY 30, 2014
(5:00 p.m.)
I. PUBLIC HEARING ON APPEAL OF PLANNING DIRECTOR’S DECISION
Assessors Map: 18-03-05-32 Tax Lot: 100
Decision: Denial of a Goal 5 Water Resources Conservation Plan Map Correction
for Roosevelt Middle School (OC2 14-1)
Appellant: Jon Lauch, Eugene School District 4J
Lead City Staff: Gabe Flock, Senior Planner
Telephone: (541) 682-5697
E-mail: gabriel.flock@ci.eugene.or.us
Public Hearing Format:
1. Staff introduction/presentation.
2. Public testimony from applicant and others in support of application.
3. Comments or questions from neutral parties.
4. Testimony from appellants and others in opposition to application.
5. Staff response to testimony.
6. Questions from Hearings Official.
7. Rebuttal testimony from applicant.
8. Closing of public hearing.
The Hearings Official will not make a decision at this hearing. The Eugene Code requires that
a written decision must be made within 15 days of close of the public comment period. To be
notified of the Hearings Official’s decision, fill out a request form at the public hearing or
contact the lead City staff as noted above. The decision will also be posted at www.eugene-
or.us/hearingsofficial.
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MEMORANDUM
Date: July 21, 2014
To: Fred Wilson, Eugene Hearings Official
From: Gabe Flock, Senior Planner
Subject: Appeal of Planning Director’s Decision to Deny a Goal 5 Water Resources Conservation
Plan Map Correction for Roosevelt Middle School (OC 2 14-1)
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Background
The subject property is located at 680 East 24th Avenue, between the Amazon Parkway and Hilyard
Street, on Tax Lot 100 of Assessor’s Map 18-03-05-32. The site is zoned Public Land with the Water
Resource Overlay (PL/WR). This appeal pertains to the Planning Director’s recent denial of the
Eugene School District 4J’s request for a “Type II map correction” involving a protected Goal 5
wetland (site AMA-10) located on the Roosevelt Middle School Site. For a vicinity map showing the
school site and the location of the wetlands involved in this request, see Attachment A. In essence, if
approved, the school district’s request would remove the protection designation under the City’s
adopted Goal 5 Water Resource regulations for the southern portion of the wetland, which would
then allow the wetland to be filled to accommodate a new school building. The Planning Director’s
decision denying the applicant’s request is included for reference; see Attachment B.
Notice and Appeal
On June 26, 2014, notice of the decision denying the applicant’s request was provided in accordance
with the Type II application procedures at EC 9.7220, which established an appeal deadline of July 8,
2014. On July 2, 2014, Bill Kloos filed an appeal of the Planning Director’s decision on behalf of
Eugene School District 4J. See written appeal statement included as Attachment C.
The appeal statement sets out two primary assignments of error. Because the appellant’s statement
only briefly sets out the appeal issues, and essentially re-asserts issues that were addressed in the
decision, a brief initial staff response is provided below with reliance on the Planning Director’s
written decision for a more detailed explanation of the City’s rationale as to why the application was
denied. Staff anticipates that the appellant will submit more extensive, additional argument at the
public hearing, which may necessitate further response from staff and the City Attorney’s Office at or
following the hearing.
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The public hearing for this appeal is scheduled for July 30, 2014 and public notice was mailed in
accordance with applicable code requirements on July 9, 2014. As described in the public notice, the
decision on this appeal is subject to the procedural requirements of EC 9.7600 through 9.7635, and
the public hearing for this appeal will be conducted according to quasi-judicial hearing procedures in
state law and described at EC 9.7065 through 9.7095. Pursuant to EC 9.7630, the HO shall affirm,
reverse, or modify the Planning Director’s decision to deny the applicant’s request. EC 9.7630(2)
clarifies that the HO can only reverse or modify the Planning Director’s decision if he finds that the
Planning Director failed to properly evaluate the application or make a decision consistent with the
approval criteria.
Since the submittal of the appeal, one letter of testimony has been received (see Attachment D). Any
written testimony or other evidence submitted after the preparation of this report will also be
forwarded for consideration as part of the decision on this appeal.
Appeal Issues and Staff Response
The appeal issues are summarized below (in bold), followed by staff’s initial response:
Appeal Issue #1: The Director erred in concluding that the requested Goal 5 Plan map
correction is not the kind of correction that can be done under the authority of EC 9.4960.
That code section envisions just the kind of map correction that is requested here.
The Planning Director addresses this issue about the scope of EC 9.4960 on pages 2-5 of the written
decision. The analysis explains the rationale in detail, as to why the applicant’s request cannot be
approved as a map correction and instead would require a legislative amendment to the City’s
adopted Goal 5 regulations. Rather than a request to correct the mapped location of the wetland,
which could be appropriate within the scope of EC 9.4960, the applicant’s request would change (i.e.
remove) the level of protection afforded to the wetland under the City’s regulations. The Planning
Director’s decision includes an analysis of the text and context of EC 9.4960, as well as related
legislative history, in reaching the conclusion that the applicant’s request falls outside the intended
scope of EC 9.4960. A useful excerpt summarizing that analysis is provided below:
Based on the text, context and legislative history, the Planning Director concludes that the
council intended the process set forth in EC 9.4960 to be available as a means of correcting
only certain mapping errors. In doing so, the council necessarily meant to limit the scope of
that provision to a confined universe of situations where the error in mapping was relatively
clear and could be discerned simply by reference to the documentation before it.
Given the history of the adoption of the Goal 5 water resources conservation plan and code
provisions implementing that plan, this interpretation is the only one that makes sense. If a
property owner could characterize the erroneous analysis of existing data as a mapping error,
then there would be no limit to what would be considered a mapping error for purposes of EC
9.4960. Such an interpretation would allow an end run around the Goal 5 process. Each and
every parcel that has the /WR overlay designation would be subject to challenge under EC
9.4960. An alleged error in analysis of the available data is not a mapping error. Rather, that
is a challenge that properly should have been raised at the time the Goal 5 plan was adopted.
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Here, the applicant asserts that the City made an error in its analysis of the data in front of it
and, as a result, the mapping of the boundaries of the protected wetland was in error. This
application does not allege a mapping error that can be corrected under the EC 9.4960
process. An example of a mapping error that would be subject to EC 9.4960 is the situation
where the underlying information supports a conclusion that the wetland would be mapped
in one location, but the mapping erroneously shows the wetland mapped in an entirely
different location. An assertion that the City made an error in its analysis of the data that
resulted in a piece of land erroneously being afforded protection is not a mapping error
subject to correction under EC 9.4960. The applicant’s attempt to challenge the City’s prior
analysis in this application is a collateral attack of the City’s 2005 ordinance. The only remedy
for the applicant at this point is to seek a legislative amendment, which would allow the City
Council to re-analyze the data and determine what protections are appropriate.
The appeal statement asserts that the request here is not intended as new policy-making or to re-
open the analysis for individual sites that was done in 2005, but rather, seeks to resolve a conflict
between the map and text of the Goal 5 Plan. As such, the appellant believes that the request falls
within the scope of EC 9.4960 as a Type II map correction. The assertions about a conflict between
the text and map of the Goal 5 Plan, or that the text of the ESEE analysis has the same legal standing
as adopted Metro Plan text which must be resolved in favor of the text over the adopted Goal 5
maps, are addressed in more detail under Appeal Issue #2, below.
Appeal Issue #2: The Director erred in failing to correct the Goal 5 Plan map for this site, as
requested. The denial is based on several legal errors that are apparent in the decision. The
Hearing Official should correct the legal errors and then conclude, as the applicant asserts,
that the Resource Site intended by the Goal 5 Plan to be protected is limited to the ash
grove, as described in the ESEE – the text of the Goal 5 Plan.
Here, the appellant asserts three “legal errors” under Appeal Issue #2, which if corrected by the
Hearings Official, the appellant believes should allow the applicant’s request to be approved as a
Type II map correction.
Legal Error (a): The Director erred in reading the Goal 5 Plan maps as being the only credible
source of information in the plan for locating a Resource Site.
This argument misconstrues the Planning Director’s findings in the decision, regarding the legal
standing of the ESEE analysis that was adopted as findings in support of the City’s Goal 5 ordinance
(Ordinance No. 20351). Here, without addressing the Planning Director’s explanation in the decision
as to why the ESEE analysis cannot be relied upon in the way that the applicant would prefer, the
appellant turns to the definition of “Goal 5 Water Resource Site” at EC 9.0500. He asserts that the
term “identified” is much broader than “mapped” and thus one should look to the entire plan to
determine what the resource site is, and where it is located. No further explanation or analysis of the
text, context or legislative history is provided in support of this argument which would appear to
greatly expand the latitude and range of interpretation involved in determining both the location and
level of protection afforded to wetland sites under the City’s Goal 5 regulations (i.e. beyond what was
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intended). As explained in the decision, even if the text of the ESEE analysis could be relied upon in
the way that the applicant would like, the language itself does not support the contention that the
City intended to only protect the ash grove portion of the wetland. The language the applicant points
to is found in a brief summary description of the site, not in a section that purports to outline the
purposes for which a particular resource site is to be protected.
Legal Error (b): The Director erred by stating that the text of the ESEE is not part of the Goal
5 Plan.
Again, this argument misconstrues what the Planning Director’s decision really says, and how the
relationship works between adopted refinement plans and the Metro Plan. As explained in the
decision beginning on page 6, the City firmly disagrees with the applicant’s assertions that the ESEE
analysis somehow has the same legal standing as adopted Metro Plan text, which would in turn allow
them to rely on the ESEE text to resolve an alleged “conflict” between the Metro Plan and the
adopted Goal 5 refinement plan in favor of removing the protection designation. In its appeal
statement, the applicant cites to OAR 660-023-0040(4) in support of its position that the ESEE
analysis is equivalent to Metro Plan text. OAR 660-023-0040(4) provides: “The analyses of the ESEE
consequences shall be adopted either as part of the plan or as a land use regulation.”
However, the fact that the ESEE consequences are adopted as part of the plan does not mean that
every word in the ESEE consequences analysis must be treated as if it were Metro Plan text. The
decision clarifies that the ESEE analysis was only adopted as findings in support of the City’s Goal 5
ordinance. To the extent they are part of the plan, they are supporting documentation of the plan
text, much like a housing inventory is part of a local government’s comprehensive plan. Accordingly,
any language found in the ESEE analysis does not carry the same weight as Metro Plan text and
cannot be used as the appellant asserts to override or “resolve a conflict” that would change the level
of protection afforded to the wetland.
More importantly, the language of the ESEE analysis relied upon by the applicant does not support its
contention that the City only intended to protect the ash grove. As the Planning Director found, the
language the applicant relies upon is found in the “Site Description” portion of the ESEE analysis,
which only provides a brief summary of each of the wetlands. The ESEE conclusions, however, make
clear that the entire wetland is valuable, and should be protected, as it provides a diversity of
wetland types.
Legal Error (c): The Director Erred in stating that the text of this refinement plan does not
control over the map in this refinement plan.
This assertion appears to rely on the same faulty premise that the text of the ESEE analysis is adopted
as a refinement of the Metro Plan. As described above and in the Planning Director’s decision, the
ESEE analysis was only adopted as findings in support of the City’s Goal 5 ordinance; it is not adopted
as text of the Metro Plan or as text of a refinement to the Metro Plan. The appellant also incorrectly
asserts that the City’s Goal 5 Plan, as a refinement plan, is “incorporated into” the Metro Plan. While
it is true that the Metro Plan and the City’s adopted refinement plans taken together constitute our
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comprehensive plan as that term is used in the context of State law, refinement plans are not one
and the same as the Metro Plan.
A useful excerpt from the Planning Director’s decision at pages 6-7 helps to explain how the appellant
is misreading the relationship between the ESEE analysis, the adopted Goal 5 Plan, and the Metro
Plan in this case:
The applicant asserts that the ESEE analysis, which applicant argues reflects the intent to
protect AMA-10 only for its value as an ash wetland, takes precedence over the WRCP map.
Applicant asserts that the map and the ESEE text are inconsistent because the ESEE text states
an intent to protect the wetlands as an ash grove, and the mapped wetland includes property
that is not part of the ash grove.
The applicant quotes the following provision from the Metro Plan:
“In addition, it is important to recognize that the written text of the Metro Plan takes
precedence over the Metro Plan Diagram where apparent conflicts or inconsistencies
exist. The Metro Plan Diagram is a generalized map which is intended to graphically
reflect the broad goals, objectives, and policies. As such, it cannot be used
independently from or take precedence over the written portion of the Metro Plan.”
The applicant generalizes this rule, asserting that any text in any document that is part of the
Metro Plan takes precedence over any map that is part of the Metro Plan. However, that is
not what the above-quoted Metro Plan language says. It merely states that where the Metro
Plan “Diagram” conflicts with the text of the Metro Plan, the Metro Plan text controls. There
is but one Metro Plan Diagram. It is found in the Metro Plan following page II-G-16. The
WRCP map is not the Metro Plan Diagram.
Further, the ESEE analysis relied upon by the applicant is not part of the Metro Plan and
cannot be treated as Metro Plan text. Ordinance No. 20351 is the ordinance that adopted the
Goal 5 Water Resources Conservation Plan. That same ordinance created the Water
Resources Conservation Overlay Zone (/WR) and adopted the code provisions related to that
new overlay zone. EC 9.4900 through 9.4980. The Goal 5 Water Resources Conservation Plan
was adopted as a refinement of the Metro Plan. Ordinance No. 20351, Section 2. The ESEE
analysis and Eugene’s Local Wetland Inventory (LWI) were adopted as findings in support of
the ordinance. Section 3. However, they were not themselves adopted as part of the Metro
Plan. Accordingly, any text found in the ESEE analysis does not carry the weight of Metro Plan
text.
Furthermore, as noted above, even if the appellant could rely on the text of the ESEE analysis as
asserted, the language itself does not support the contention that the City intended to only protect
the ash grove portion of the wetland.
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Staff Recommendation
Based on the available information and evidence, staff concludes that the Planning Director’s decision
was not in error or otherwise inconsistent with the applicable approval criteria at EC 9.4960. Staff
recommends that the Hearings Official affirm the decision of the Planning Director denying the map
correction request for the Roosevelt Middle School Site (OC2 14-1).
Attachments
A: Vicinity Map
B: Written Appeal Statement
C: Planning Director’s Decision
D: Public Testimony
The full application file will be made available at the public hearing on this matter, and is otherwise
available for review at the Eugene Planning Division offices. Staff is forwarding the Hearings Official a
copy of all relevant application materials and related evidence in the record to date.
For More Information
Please contact Gabe Flock, Senior Planner, by phone at (541) 682-5697 or by e-mail, at
gabriel.flock@ci.eugene.or.us.
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Attachment A
NOTES
1. All survey information provided by:
Branch Engineering
310 5th St.
EK Springfield, Oregon 97477
CRE P: 541-746-0637
PATTERSON ST.
ZON
2. The northern reach of the 60 ft. setback, measured
AMA
from Amazon Creek (E-30E), is beyond the 50 ft.
setback of wetland AMA-9 and AMA-7B in the
boundaries of 4J's property. The setback for wetlands
AMA-9 and AMA-7 are not shown for this reason.
LEGEND
E. 24TH AVE. PROPERTY EASEMENT
Eugene School District 4J
TAX LOT
GOAL 5 WETLAND BOUNDARIES
SIDEWALK SIDEWALK SIDEWALK
PROPERTY LINE GOAL 5 WETLAND BOUNDARIES
WETLAND SETBACK PROPOSED FOR ADJUSTMENT
CONSERVATION TAX LOT LINE OF PROTECTION STATUS
AREA
WETLAND SETBACK (25 ft.)
88 PROPERTY EASEMENT PARKING
WETLAND SETBACK PROPOSED
ROOSEVELT MIDDLE SCHOOL FOR REMOVAL
AMAZON CREEK RIPARIAN
TENNIS SETBACK (60 ft.)
COURTS FENCELINE
EXISTING WETLAND
200 N. Monroe St. Eugene, OR 97402
RIPARIAN AREA
AREA, AMA-10
Proposed: AMA-10A
(Category B) WETLAND AREA
89 CONSERVATION AREA
SOCCER
FIELDS CONSERVATION AREA
PROPOSED FOR ADJUSTMENT
PARKING
PHS SAMPLE PLOT
89 LOCATION & NUMBER
EXISTING WETLAND
AREA AMA-10
Proposed: AMA-10B
(Area requested for 90
removal of protection
status)
TAX LOT 18-03-05-32-00100
5/5/2014 9:45 AM
PARKING
TAX LOT 18-03-05-32-00200
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CONSERVATION AREA FO FO
BACKSTOP R R
O MA
KRISTINA KOENIG
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Checked: CM
Drawn By: KMK
AMAZON CREEK
Checked:
RIPARIAN SETBACK, E30 E
(Category B) Project #: 1410B
See Note 2
EXISTING WETLAND AREA Date: May 5, 2014
AMA-9 (Category A) EXISTING WETLAND,
AMA-7B (Category A) EXISTING WETLAND AREA
AMA-11A Rev. #: Date:
AMAZON PARKWAY
(Not Designated for Protection)
Z:\4J Roosevelt MS 1344B\CAD\OLD\Wetland Vicinity Map Opt. 2.dwg
# dd/mm/yy
AMAZON PARK
SHEET TITLE
EXISTING AND
PROPOSED
WETLAND
BOUNDARY MAP
FOR AMA-10
0' 30' 60' 120' NORTH SHEET #
Existing and Proposed Wetland Boundary Map for AMA-10 SCALE 1" = 60'-0" L1.0
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Attachment B
LAW OFFICE OF BILL OOS PC
OREGON LAND USE LAW
375 W 4r AVENUE SUITE 204 BILL KLOOS
EUGENE OR 97401 COM
BILLKLOOS@LANDUSEOREGON
TEL 541
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WEB LANDUSEOREGON
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July 2 3014
Ms Carolyn Burke
Eugene Planning director
99 W loth Ave
Eugene OR 97401
Re Appeal of Denial of Goal 5 Water Resources Conservation Map Correction for
Roosevelt Middle School OC2 14
Dear Carolyn
This is an appeal of your June 25 decision on the 4J School District application for a Goal 5 map
correction It is filed on behalf of 4J it is supported by the enclosed filing fee and appeal form
As directed in the decision this appeal is filed under EC 7
9 605
The application for a map correction was requested under EC 4
9 960 EC 4
9 960 is the correct
process to use for this because the request to resolve a conflict that is internal to the Goal 5 plan
a conflict between the plan map and the plan test
The big picture is that 4J is seeking to correct the Goal 5 Resource Site map in the Goal 5 plan to
match the text in the Goal 5 plan describing the site the plan intends to protect The map
correction would fix the map by bifurcating it to include just the ash grove which is what the
text of the plan says is to be protected
Correcting the map in this way will allow 4J to relocate
Roosevelt Middle School consistent with the district
s adopted plan and in a way that will allow
the best use of the larger site
The balance of this statement is organized according the required contents of an appeal as state
in EC 7
9 605
9
7 605 Filin ofAppeal ofPlannin Director
s Decision
1 Within 12 days of the date of the mailing of the planning director
s decision the decision
may be appealed to the hearings official or historic review board according to the appeal review
authority specified in Table 7
9 055 Applications and Review Authorities by the following
a Applicant
b Owner of the subject property
c Neighborhood group officially recognized by the city that includes the area of the subject
property
d Any person who submitted written comments in regards to the original application
e A person entitled to notice of the original application
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Attachment B
Ms Carolyn Burke
July 2 2014
Page 2
0 A person adversely affected or
aggrieved by the initial decision
This appeal is filed by the applicant
2 The appeal shall be submitted on a form
approved by the city manager be accompanied
by a fee established pursuant to EC Chapter 2 and be received the no later than 5 00
by city
p of the 12
m h day after the notice of decision is mailed The record from the planning
s proceeding shall be forwarded to the appeal review
director New evidence
authority
pertaining to appeal issues shall be accepted
This appeal is filed with the approved appeal form and within the 12
day period
3 The appeal shall include a statement
of issues on appeal and be limited to the issues
raised in the appeal The appeal statement shall explain
specifically how the planning director
s
decision is inconsistent with applicable criteria
The issues are stated here in a summary fashion We look forward to
supplementing the record
prior to and at the public hearing as necessary
Issue 1 The Director erred in concluding that the
requested Goal 5 Plan map correction is
not the kind of correction that can be done under the
authority of EC 4
9 960 That code
section envisions just the kind of map correction that is
requested here
At pages 4 and 5 of the decision the Director concludes that the
map correction process is
intended to allow correction of mapping errors it is not intended to
reopen the analysis for
individual sites that was done in 2005 The kind of map correction
requested here seeks to
resolve a conflict between the map in the Goal 5 Plan and the text of the Goal 5 Plan Does the
plan as a whole intend to protect just the ash grove as the plan text says or does it intend to
protect both the ash grove and the adjacent grass area to the south of the ash grove That is a
question that can be answered indeed must be answered based on the plan language itself The
applicant is not requesting a change in the plan or new policy making about what should be
protected
Issue 2 The Director erred in
failing to correct the Goal 5 Plan map for this site as
requested The denial is based on several legal errors that are
apparent in the decision
The Hearing Official should correct the and then conclude as the applicant
legal errors
asserts that the Resource Site intended by the Goal 5 Plan to be protected is limited to the
ash grove as described in the ESEE the text of the Goal 5 Plan
We list here briefly the several legal errors that are
apparent in the Decision If these legal
errors are corrected the Hearing Official should be able to afford the relief that is requested
Legal Error a The Director erred in reading the Goal 5 Plan maps as
being the
only credible source of information in the plan for locating a Resource Site There is an
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Attachment B
Ms Carolyn Burke
July 2 2014
Page 3
erroneous assumption throughout the decision that the published maps are the only place to go to
locate the footprint of a Resource Site This is not so The definition of Resource Site in the
plan says that the plan identifies sites not that it maps sites EC 0
9 500 says
Goal 5 Water Resource Site As used in EC 4
9 900 to 4
9 980 and 8
2
9 030 1
the resource site as identified in the Goal 5 Water Resources Conservation Plan
For riparian corridor and upland wildlife habitat sites the Goal 5 Water Resource
Site includes the stream and riparian areas that may extend beyond applicable
conservation setbacks Wetland sites include only the wetland itself emphasis
added
The tern identified is much broader than mapped Thus one looks to the entire plan to
detennine what is the Resource Site and where it is located
Legal Error b The Director erred in stating that the text of the ESEE as not part
of the Goal 5 Plan saying that it is merely findings supporting the Goal 5 Plan By
discounting the pedigree of the ESEE in this way the Director found it easy to ignore the text of
the ESEE which says that it is the ash grove at this site that is to be protected The Director
s
discounting of the ESSE as mere findings is plainly wrong It does not matter what label the
Goal 5 ordinance puts on the ESEE As a matter of state law it is a part of the comprehensive
plan The status of the ESEE as a part of the plan or as an implementing regulation is
guaranteed by the Goal 5 Rule OAR 660 4 says in relevant part The analyses of
0040
023
the ESEE consequences shall be adopted either as part of the plan or as a land use
regulation
More specifically the ESEE is text of the refinement plan which is incorporated into the Metro
Plan
Legal Error c The Director erred in stating that the text of this refinement plan
does not control over the map in this refinement plan This erroneous
assumption allowed
the Director to completely discount the text of the ESSE even assuming that it is a
part of the
plan As a refinement plan of the Metro Plan the Goal 5 Plan is incorporated into the Metro
Plan The text of refinement plans control over the Metro Plan diagram because they are
incorporated into the Metro Plan See Opus Development Corp v City ofEugene 30 Or LUBA
d 141 Or App 249 1996 If that is so then the text of the refinement plan certainly
360 376 aff
controls over the maps in the refinement plan
So based on all of the legal errors above the applicant requests the Hearing Official to
Detennine that the text of the Goal 5 Plan in the ESEE states the intent to protect the ash
grove at this location The Goal 5 map shows a larger area The map is by definition
generalized The text states the plan
s ultimate policy choice for this location The text controls
over the graphic Based on this inforination all of which is included in the Goal 5
Plan the
Hearing Official should direct the city staff to correct the mapping error to make the map match
the text which says to protect the ash grove at this site
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Attachment B
Ms Carolyn Burke
July 2 2014
Page 4
We look forward to elaborating and providing more infonnation at the public hearing
Sincerely
Val
Bill Kloos
Encl Fonn Filing Fee Check
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