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including a review of the neighborhoods' independent traffic study. Information was supplied through a website, written materials distributed at the public meetings and written materials sent by mail to everyone on the City's interested parties list. At the public meeting on August 10, all comments and questions were recorded. A written response was prepared and mailed to the interested parties list prior to the design workshop. A summary of the public meeting and design workshop is included as Attachment B. The City received substantial public input on a wide variety of issues including designation of certain streets as neighborhood collectors, the cost of improvements and who pays, improvement and maintenance of streets, and safety. A staff report on neighborhood issues and common ground between the neighborhood and staff are included as attachments C and D. The neighborhood also conducted and submitted its own traffic study. While the public input was important and provided for a better understanding of the neighborhoods issues and concerns, only the neighborhood traffic study provided information specific to the criteria used in the Street Classification Matrix. City staff evaluated the neighborhood traffic study and determined that the study results did not change the outcome of the Street Classification Matrix. RELATED CITY POLICIES The Street Classification Map in the Eugene Arterial and Collector Street Plan (ACSP) is intended to clarify and implement policies set forth in the regional transportation system plan (TransPlan), the Growth Management Study, and other adopted plans. The 1991 Federal Intermodal Surface Transportation Act (ISTEA) and Oregon's Transportation Planning Rule require the State and each county and municipality to functionally classify their public roads and streets. The proposed ordinance would complete this process for all streets within the city of Eugene.. COUNCIL OPTIONS 1. The council may approve the attached draft ordinance to amend the November 1999 Street Classification Map to designate certain segments of Crest, Storey, Friendly and McLean as Neighborhood Collectors in recognition of their current and planned function. 2. The council may direct the City Manager to amend the street classification criteria and methodology and return to the council an ordinance with the necessary changes to the Eugene Arterial and Collector Street Plan (ACSP) to allow the streets to be classified as local streets. 3. The council may decline to amend the November 1999 Street Classification Map, in which case all streets within the Crest Drive neighborhood would remain unclassified. CITY MANAGER'S RECOMMENDATION The City Manager recommends that the council affirm the recommendations of the Planning Commission and adopt the proposed ordinance classifying these streets as neighborhood collectors. This designation recognizes the current and planned function of these streets. The City Manager also recommends that the council accept the staff report documenting the design workshop as an illustration of context sensitive design for streets in the Crest Drive neighborhood. L:\CMO\2004 Council Agendas\M041025\S041025B.doc