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INTRODUCTION The City's recently adopted 2035 Transportation System Plan (TSP) and the Envision Eugene Comprehensive Plan provide the foundation for the transportation infrastructure, goals, and policies that support an economically vital, healthy, and equitable community. Per the visions articulated in these documents, our transportation systems affect nearly every aspect of city life. We import the basic necessities of life — food, clothing, and building materials — to our homes. A constant flow of freight supplies many aspects of our lives. We travel to work and school, and move about to socialize and play. Streets, rail lines, rivers, and airports create the framework around which our cities are built and help define a city's livability. Our personal choices about how we travel affect our daily lives and our physical and mental well-being. Transportation is truly the backbone that supports a community as it grows and evolves. The 20 -year list of multimodal projects included in the TSP reflects a future transportation system that is designed and operated with the needs and safety of all travelers in mind, including people of all ages and abilities, especially the most vulnerable, who are walking, driving, bicycling, using transit, or traveling with mobility aids, some out of necessity. By making streets more inviting to pedestrians and bicyclists, especially for short trips, the City will gain more efficient use of limited available space within the street rights-of-way, provide a healthier environment in neighborhoods, and support higher density, mixed-use corridors. In furtherance of the goal to increase the number of people choosing active transportation as their travel option, there are 245 bicycle, pedestrian and transit projects planned for the next 20 years; these projects represent over 51 % of the total transportation dollars that the City plans to spend over the next 20 years. Within this context, it is important to recognize that today's fiscal environment is beset by uncertainty about future federal, state and local funding for transportation projects. This uncertainty provides challenges to accurately forecast the amount of funding available for transportation investments, and what projects or programs will receive funding. As such, the TSP provides a prudent and conservative list of capital construction projects, an emphasis on lower cost methods of improving personal mobility within the City, and an increased reliance on technologies that can improve the efficiencies of our streets. Providing an updated Transportation System Development Charge (TSDC) methodology and rate structure is one of the key implementation items associated with helping to achieve the TSP vision within this funding environment. To address the requirement of ORS223.309, this Project Plan includes a list of the capital improvements that the City intends to fund, in whole or in part, with revenues from improvement fees collected through transportation system development charges. The City will update this plan as it updates the prioritization of projects in recognition of unforeseen opportunities associated with changes in policies or funding at the federal, state or local level as well as changes in local economic development priorities and public-private partnerships. 3