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<br /> <br />ECC <br />UGENE ITY OUNCIL <br />AIS <br />GENDA TEM UMMARY <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />Work Session: Regional Transportation Planning <br /> <br /> <br />Meeting Date: August 13, 2008 Agenda Item Number: B <br />Department: Public Works Staff Contact: Rob Inerfeld <br />www.eugene-or.gov Contact Telephone Number: 682-5343 <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />ISSUE STATEMENT <br /> <br />At the Joint Elected Officials (JEO) meeting on July 15, 2008, the council requested that staff schedule a <br />work session to give the council an opportunity to provide direction to staff on several items that relate <br />to regional transportation planning. <br /> <br /> <br />BACKGROUND <br /> <br />The November 2007 adoption of an updated 2031 Regional Transportation Plan (RTP) by the <br />Metropolitan Planning Committee (MPC) has led to numerous discussions in the Eugene-Springfield <br />metropolitan area about the shape of future state mandated transportation plans as well as actions to <br />address consistency between plans required by the state and federal governments. <br /> <br />At the JEO meeting on July 15, 2008, staff presented a list of actions that could be taken in the short-, <br />medium- and long-term to address these issues. The members of the JEO agreed that they would <br />schedule separate work sessions of their individual elected bodies in order to provide direction to staff <br />regarding future actions. Most of these issues were also discussed at a Eugene City Council Work <br />Session on regional transportation planning on April 28, 2008. <br /> <br />Staff recommends that the council take action over the next several months to address the following issues: <br /> <br />1.Amend the TransPlan project list to remove completed projects. Either Eugene or Springfield could <br />initiate this amendment. <br /> <br />2.Amend TransPlan to extend the planning horizon from 2015 to the estimated year, probably 2022 or <br />2023, in which the metropolitan area covered by the Metro Plan will arrive at the population <br />TransPlan is designed to serve (296,500). Either Eugene or Springfield could initiate this <br />amendment. <br /> <br />3.Amend TransPlan to move two ODOT projects located in Eugene, Beltline from River Road to Delta <br />th <br />Highway and West 11 Avenue from Greenhill Road to Terry Street, from the Future project list to <br />the Constrained project list. When the RTP was updated these two projects were moved from the <br />Illustrative list to the Constrained list. These projects were identified by the council in December <br />2006 as the top two transportation priorities in north and west Eugene. This amendment would need <br />to be initiated by the City of Eugene. <br /> <br />4.Amend TransPlan to add a sentence stating that the West Eugene Parkway (WEP) is not a "planned <br />transportation facility" for purposes of OAR 660-012-0060, the Transportation Planning Rule (TPR). <br />The WEP was removed from the 2031 RTP. This proposed amendment is an interim step to address <br />the fact that the WEP is no longer a planned facility; removal of the WEP from TransPlan will occur <br />as part of the bigger TransPlan update. Issues related to the WEP are addressed in more detail in a <br /> Z:\CMO\2008 Council Agendas\M080813\S080813B.doc <br /> <br />