Planning Commission

AGENDA EUGENE, SPRINGFIELD AND LANE COUNTY PLANNING COMMISSIONS Bascom-Tykeson Room, Eugene Public Library, 100 East 10th Avenue, Eugene, OR 97401 Phone: (541) 682-5481 Web site: www.eugene-or.gov The Eugene, Springfield, and Lane Planning Commission welcome your interest in these agenda items. Feel free to come and go as you please at any of the meetings. This meeting location is wheelchair-accessible. For the hearing impaired, FM assistive-listening devices are available or an interpreter can be provided with 48 hours notice prior to the meeting. Spanish-language interpretation will also be provided with 48 hours notice. To arrange for these services, contact the receptionist at 682-5481. Telecommunications devices for deaf assistance are available at 682- 5119. JOINT PUBLIC HEARING OF EUGENE, SPRINGFIELD, AND LANE COUNTY PLANNING COMMISSIONS DATE: TUESDAY, April 29, 2008 LOCATION: Bascom-Tykeson Room, Eugene Public Library, 100 East 10th Avenue TIME: 6:00 p.m. I-5 Willamette Bridge Project (MA 07-3, RA 08-1) Staff: Heather O’Donnell, 682-5488 Metro Plan Amendment (City file MA 07-3) to amend the text of the Metro Plan, Policy D.11, to allow for the placement of fill in the Willamette River greenway for the I-5 Willamette Bridge Replacement Project and to allow for a goal exception to Statewide Planning Goal 15 (Willamette River Greenway) to authorize a nonwater dependent, nonwater-related use within the Willamette River Greenway setback. Refinement Plan Amendment (City File RA 08-1) to amend the text of the Willakenzie Area Plan to allow for the placement of fill within 35 feet from the top of bank of the Willamette River for the I-5 Willamette Bridge Replacement Project. Conduct of Public Hearing: The order of procedure for quasi-judicial hearings is: 1. Planning Commission chair will commence public hearing. 2. Planning Commission chair will ask commissioners to disclose any conflicts of interest, ex parte contacts, and biases, abstentions or challenges to impartiality submitted pursuant to Eugene Code Sections 9.7065. 3. Planning Commission will receive a City staff report and Commissioners will share any information learned from site visits. 4. Public testimony from the applicant and others in support of the application. 5. Comments or questions from interested people who are neither proponents nor opponents of the application. 6. Public testimony from those in opposition to the application. 7. Staff response to testimony. 8. Questions from the Planning Commissioners. 9. Rebuttal by the applicant. 10. Planning Commission Chair will announce whether the record is closed; record will be held open; or the public hearing will be continued. City of Eugene Planning Commission Members: Heidi Beierle, Phillip Carroll, Vice President, Rick Duncan, Randy Hledik, President, Ann Kneeland, John Lawless, Anthony McCown Lane County Planning Commission Members: Lisa Arkin, Vice Chair, Ed Becker, Steve Dignam, Todd Johnston, Nancy Nichols, Howard Shapiro, Jozef Siekiel-Zdzienicki, John Sullivan, Chair Springfield Planning Commission Members: Lee Beyer, Bill Carpenter, Frank Cross, Chair, Johnny Kirschenmann, Vice Chair, Terri Leezer, Sheri Moore, Eric Smith