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Goal 12 is implemented by the Transportation Planning Rule (TPR), which is set forth at OAR Chapter 660, Division 12. The TPR creates specific requirements for compliance and coordination among affected units of local government for the preparation, adoption, refinement, implementation and amendment of transportation system plans and local comprehensive plans and land use regulations. The TPR requires that any amendments to comprehensive plans or land use regulations that "significantly affect a transportation facility" must assure that the allowed land uses "are consistent with the identified function, capacity and performance standards of the facility." An amendment "significantly affects" a transportation facility if it would: (1) change the functional classification of an existing or planned transportation facility; (2) change standards implementing a functional classification system; (3) allow types land uses or levels of development that are inconsistent with the functional classification of an existing or planned transportation facility; (4) reduce the performance standards of an existing or planned facility below minimally acceptable levels identified in the local transportation system plan; or(5) worsen the performance of an existing or planned transportation facility that is otherwise projected to perform below the minimum acceptable performance standard identified in the Transportation System Plan or comprehensive plan. OAR 660-012-0060(1). For the proposed amendments to demonstrate compliance with the TPR,the Board must conclude that the traffic impacts from the proposed resort are either within the performance standards of the impacted transportation facility or that adverse impacts are mitigated. The Board finds that the applicant has provided a TIS prepared by DKS Associates dated August 2007 and a supplemental memorandum dated June 18, 2008. These DKS materials demonstrate compliance with Goal 12 and the TPR. The Board expressly adopts and incorporates into its findings the DKS Associates TIS dated August 2007 and the supplemental TIS dated June 18, 2008. To the extent there is any discrepancy between the DKS Associates materials adopted by the Board and these findings, the express findings of the Board shall govern. Regarding compliance with the TPR, the DKS memorandum dated June 18, 2008 demonstrates that the only intersection that does not meet the applicable performance standards in the applicable horizon year of 2025 is the Highway 22/North Fork Road intersection. However, with the recommended mitigation measures in place for that intersection (a channelized right-turn lane from North Fork Road onto westbound Highway 22 and a corresponding acceleration lane), conditions at that intersection will be improved over what they otherwise would have been in 2025. Therefore, the applicable TPR standards are satisfied. M. Goal 13 —Energy Conservation Goal 13 requires that land uses maximize conservation of all forms of energy based on sound economic principles. Goal 13 is implemented by local plans and regulations that control location, orientation and density of development to minimize net energy consumption. The Board finds that it is feasible for the proposed project to meet all regulations designed to minimize net energy consumption. N. Goal 14—Urbanization Compliance with the Goal 14 exception criteria is addressed below in Section IX.A of the findings, which conclude that the applicable exception criteria are satisfied. O. Goal 15—Willamette River Greenway This Statewide Planning Goal is not applicable to this application. -7-