View Results of the South Hills Habitat Study

The South Ridgeline Habitat Maps page displays information gathered from the South Ridgeline Habitat Study. More information about the study

The study involved a five-month inventory and assessment of more than 2600 acres of upland habitats on public and private land in Eugene's South Ridgeline area. The study was undertaken to document the location, quantity, and quality of upland habitat, and suitability of habitat for uncommon and rare species in the area, and to do so in a way that meets the inventory standards contained in the administrative rules for Oregon's Statewide Planning Goal 5.
The study began in May 2006 with the City leading preparatory meetings between staff and consultants, hosting a public information meeting, and sending out 1581 individual property owner requests for access for the field inventory along with information about the overall project. The inventory methodology was refined during this period with particular attention to the vegetation and wildlife communities found in Eugene. The consultants then conducted on- and off-site field inventories, completed spatial and text data entry and analysis, and assessed (rated) site values.
This information above comes from the final report written about the study. For more details, see the South Ridgeline Habitat Maps page for a link to the South Ridgeline Habitat Study page. That page contains links to the final report and other information.

The page allows you to view collected data on a map, for a specific property or group of properties, within the study area.

Locating a property or area on the map involves one or more of the following:

Searching with a map and tax lot number.
Searching with an address (if an address exists for a property; an address may not be assigned for some vacant, undeveloped properties).
Using map tools to zoom in to an area on the map. Once you display a small enough area with the tools, you can select a specific property and learn its map and tax lot number and address (if an address is available).

Layers – The map combines a view of property map and tax lot lines with several different categories of data, called "layers." These layers, used one at a time, include information about the habitat data discovered in the study, how the habitat data was gathered, and the different geographic areas within the study area.

One layer, the Citizen Conservation Proposal layer, shows how a nine-member citizen task group prioritized areas within the study boundary for conservation protection. Click for details about layers

Printing – You also can print a map of a selected property, with information about the property from the displayed active layer.

View the South Ridgeline Habitat Maps page

1 On the City Home page, in the City Quick Links section, click Planning and Development:
Picture of the Planning and Development link in the City Quick Links list.

2 On the Planning and Development page, in the Navigation - Sub Levels section, point to Planning, then click South Ridgeline Habitat Study Maps.

Picture of the pointer selecting the South Ridgeline Habitat Study Maps link.

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Search for a specific property

1 On the Search tab, do one of the following and click Submit:

Type all or part of an Address.

Important The more complete the address you enter, the more the program narrows your search and the more likely it will list the address. More? A search can return only up to 50 addresses at one time. When you search with a partial address, such as just a full or partial Street Name (with, for example, Fox instead of 5393 Fox or 5393 Fox Hollow ), the search may find more than 50 matches. The address you are looking for may not appear in that list of 50 returned addresses.

View address search examples

House No. – Must be exact. For example, 4925 returns all addresses in the address data base with that house number:
Street Name
The search uses the beginning characters of a street name. In a search for a street in the study area, Pine Canyon Drive, pine finds the first 50 addresses that begin with Pine:

Pine Canyon Dr

Pine Forest Dr

Pine Ridge Pl

Pine View Ct
Picture of Search Results list with an assortment of street addresses containing the characters "pine" in the street name.

If you type the entire street name Pine Canyon only Pine Canyon addresses are returned.
Sometimes a partial name works successfully. If you're searching for an address on Hunters Glen Drive in the habitat study area, and you type the partial street name Hunt the program returns all Hunters Glen Drive addresses.

Dir – Include directions when appropriate. W Amazon returns a different list of addresses than E Amazon :

Type both the Map and Lot numbers.

Important The last five digits of a map and tax lot are the lot identifier. Type the lot number in the second box. View example

Picture of Map and tax Lot numbers entered on the Search tab.

Search Results tab displays with one or more addresses, or with a message indicating the search could not match your entry.

2 On the Search Results tab, click Select at the end of an address line.

The program
Locates the property on the map, zooms in if necessary, and indicates the selected property with diagonal lines:

Note If the property is not within the study area, the program displays a message with that information.

Displays map and tax lot, and the property address (if an address exists for the property) information on the Site Info tab below the search area.

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Use map tools to define an area on the map

When necessary, click a tool to use it. The red outline indicates which tool is selected. In the picture of the tools below, Zoom In is selected. In that case, there's no need to click the Zoom In icon to use it with the map.

1 With the Zoom In tool selected, do one of the following to get a closer view:

Click the center of the area on the map where you want to look closer.
Drag to create a rectangle around the area you want to zoom to. View example

When you drag to create the rectangle below . . .

. . . the program zooms in to a view similar to this picture . . .

Notes

Repeat the action (drag, or click the map) to zoom in closer.
To display the map and tax lot number, and the property address (if an address exists for the property), for a property on the Site Info tab, use the Point Selection. See Step 2 just below.

2 Click the Point Selection tool, and click a tax lot.

Other map tools available

Zoom Out – Displays a longer distant view of the area on the map that you click or drag in. Zoom Out is similar to Zoom In, only in reverse. After you click Zoom Out, click, or drag, an area of the map.

Pan – Moves the display in the direction you drag the pointer. (Press and hold the mouse button while you drag the mouse pointer.)

Zoom to Full Extent – Zooms the map outwards, displaying the entire area of the map. When you click Zoom to Full Extent, the new view occurs automatically.

Clear All Selections – Removes the selection on the map that you made when you clicked Select on the Search Results tab or used the Point Selection tool. The program continues to display information about a previously selected property on the Site Info tab and, if you were to print the map, would print information about that selected property. See "Print the map" just below.

Scroll arrows – Moves the display in the direction of the arrow. Click an arrow at the map's edge to shift the map view in that direction.

Picture of an area of the map adjacent to the scroll arrows.

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View properties with different layers of habitat information

To change the data displayed for the same area on the map, select a different layer:

Notes

A description of the selected layer displays below the map.
When you select a different layer, if the property selected is not in the study area, the program displays a message with that information along with refreshing the map and showing the new layer. Click OK in the message window to continue.

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Print the map with layer and habitat information

After you select a property, the program allows you to print the map, with its colored information, from the selected layer. View example

This example below shows how the Habitat Types layer for the selected property (Map and Lot number 18031630 045030) prints. Surrounding properties are dimmed in the picture below, leaving the selected property with its diagonal lines visible in the middle of picture.

The property contains six habitat types. Colors and text from the Legend have been added to the picture below and placed near the location of the habitat type on the property.

Picture of the map with the Habitat Types layer selected. The selected property contains six habitat types.

Descriptions of the layer and habitat information related to the selected property appear below the printed map. The printed view defaults to a preset zoom, regardless of how near or distant the map on the Web page displays the property.

Click the Print picture next to the Tools section.

Note If the colors displayed in the legends do not print with your color printer, you can change your browser setting. View details

Microsoft example:

1 On the Tools menu, click Internet Options.

2 On the Advance tab, in the Printing section, select the Print background colors and images check box.

3 Click OK.

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