Item B: Process to Identify Transportation Solution for West Eugene

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ECC UGENE ITY OUNCIL AIS GENDA TEM UMMARY Work Session: Collaborative Process to Identify a Transportation Solution for West Eugene and the FY06-FY09 Metropolitan Transportation Improvement Program (MTIP) Meeting Date: May 25, 2006 Agenda Item Number: B Department: Public Works Engineering Staff Contact: Mark Schoening www.eugene-or.gov Contact Telephone Number: 682-5243 ISSUE STATEMENT The City Council is being asked to direct the council's representatives to the Metropolitan Policy Committee (MPC) to request the MPC to adopt the proposed resolution shown as Attachment A and that the City Manager direct the City's representatives on the Transportation Planning Committee (TPC) to submit to the TPC a project application for $200,000 in Surface Transportation Program-Urban (STP-U) funds for the collaborative process to identify a transportation solution for West Eugene that has widespread understanding and acceptability and that the council's representatives to the MPC support that expenditure of STP-U money when the matter comes to the MPC. The proposed resolution for the MPC will approve the FY06-FY09 MTIP, except that the funds for the West Eugene Parkway (WEP) will be reprogrammed for FY09, endorse and agree to participate in a collaborative process as outlined in Option II of The Osprey Group’s “Conflict Assessment, Florence- Eugene Highway Project (commonly referred to as the West Eugene Parkway or WEP)” dated May 2006, and request that Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) delay conclusion of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) process on the WEP until after completion of the collaborative process and to consider the product of that collaborative process. BACKGROUND At the City Council meeting held on October 26, 2005, the council failed to pass the following motion: To continue to support the West Eugene Parkway as a modernization project priority when the Metropolitan Policy Committee considers the Central Lane Metropolitan Planning Organization modernization project priorities for the 2008-2011 State Transportation Improvement Program and the 2006-2009 Metropolitan Transportation Improvement Program. The following subsequent motion was passed by the City Council: To direct the City Manager to consult with the City of Eugene’s inter-governmental partners and community organizations to scope a process to design and build transportation projects in West Eugene to address congestion, safety, and operation for all modes of transportation. L:\CMO\2006 Council Agendas\M060524\S060524B.doc