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B. Transit Goals e Mr. Holmer identified the transit goal assumption as a major question for discussion. Mr. Hansen agreed that a discussion of the modal splits must be done before the pUblic hearing. Mr. Reinhard responded to Ms. Ehrman's question by reviewing how the TransPlan included the modal splits in its assumptions. Mr. McKinley referred to the Evaluation Report, explaining that the intention of the Evaluation Report was to try to get the community to agree on the assumptions to be used in TransPlan. The transit goal adopted by MATC was 3 percent by 1990; 5 percent by 1995 or 1997; and 8 percent by 293,700 population. The whole TransPlan system was modeled around the 8 percent transit goal. He agreed that there were questions about whether this was too high or unattainable. The T-2000 Plan had a transit goal of 14 percent; the TransPlan lowers it to 8 percent. The TransPlan will be updated in a major way every five years. During this time the trip-making rate per household rate will be monitored and re-evaluated. Mr. McKinley suggested that the council stick with the 8 percent goal, leaving it open for re-evaluation. In response to Mr. Holmer's question, he said that the transit percentage of use is now about 1.3 percent and was the same five years ago. Mr. Rutan asked Ms. Anderson if the joint Eugene/Springfield/Lane County Planning Commissions came to a consensus on this assumption during development of the Evaluation Report; and that goals are not expected to be reached if not set. Ms. Anderson agreed. Mr. Rutan added that the implications of the e 8 percent transit goal do have an impact on today's planning and that the problem is not easily resolved. Mr. Hansen asked if the City Council had signed off on this transit goal assumption and Mr. Gleason responded that all the bodies, including the council, had signed off on the documents so that the modeling could be done. Mr. Reinhard responded to Mr. Rutan by saying that there is a problem if the 8 percent is not realistic, because we could be under-designing the highway system. However, the short-range projects (within five years) would probably not be designed differently. When long-range projects are begun, project modeling will be done, and the 8 percent transit goal will be evaluated for each project. They will look at alternatives if the goal is high for that time and plan expandibility or flexibility into the projects, even though the TransPlan does not predict that need. Mr. Hansen asked if the council wanted to re-open the issue of the transit goal as an assumption for the TransP1an. Hearing no willingness to do so, he asked for other questions. C. Suggestions for Understanding TransP1an Mr. Rutan commented that the TransPlan document is lengthy. The public testimony and the staff responses are lengthy. The time line for decision- making is short. He asked the staff for suggestions on how to get through the materials in a way to help the councilors understand and make an intelligent dec; s; on. e MINUTES--Eugene City Council November 25, 1985 Page 3