Admin Order 58-21-15 -- Modifying Traffic Diverter (Fairway Loop)

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Exhibit A Administrative Order No. 58-21-15 By Administrative Order No. 58-00-06, dated March 9, 2000, the City Traffic Engineer ordered that Fairway Loop be closed to through vehicular traffic at a point approximately 300 feet south of the centerline of Eastwood Lane. This partial closure was intended to address a significant number of vehicles using Fairway Loop as a “cut-through” to the Oakway and Cal Young areas. Administrative Order No. 58-00-06 was implemented by the City’s placement of a barricade (the “traffic diverter system”) at a point approximately 320 feet south of the centerline of Eastwood Lane. The present request is to modify the traffic diverter system by relocating the barricade by approximately 20 feet - to a point that is approximately 340 feet south of the centerline of Eastwood Lane. This proposed modification of the diverter system will allow full access to undeveloped Fairway Loop property while continuing to restrict traffic on Fairway Loop. The City of Eugene Administrative Rules at R-5.040TD, adopted in 1994 via Administrative Order No. 58-94-09-F, set out the procedures and criteria for installing, removing or modifying a traffic diverter system. Sections R-5.040TD-C and D of those rules pertain to a decision to install a diverter system. However, the 2000 decision that directed the installation of the subject traffic diverter did not appear to address the considerations for installation of a diverter system set out in R-5.040TD; the 2000 Order appears to have addressed only the more general considerations at EC 5.055(a)-(n). Section R-5.040TD-E of the Rules pertains to an application to remove or modify an existing diverter system. In determining whether to approve a proposed modification to a diverter system, R- 5.040TD-E directs the Traffic Engineer to determine whether “the system as designed no longer meets the criteria for initial approval.” R-5.040TD-E. Although the initial decision to install the subject diverter system did not appear to address the Rules’ criteria for evaluating a proposal to install a diverter system (at R-5.040TD-C-1.4), this decision to modify the diverter system does so, below. 1.4.1 Average daily traffic volumes. The proposed modification of the existing traffic diverter will not affect average daily traffic volumes. The existing traffic diverter on Fairway Loop was installed to restrict through travel and the relocation of the traffic diverter will continue to serve the same function. 1.4.2 Traffic speed. The proposed modification of the existing traffic diverter will not affect traffic speeds on Fairway Loop. 1.4.3 Street geometrics. The proposed modification of the existing traffic diverter will not alter the street geometry. The existing traffic diverter closes Fairway Loop to through traffic. The proposal will modify the traffic diverter by moving the closure point approximately 20 feet to the south from its existing location to allow full access to the Fairway Loop property abutting the partially closed street. The street section and associated geometries are the same in the modified location as in the existing condition. 1.4.4 Percentage of through traffic. The proposed modification of the existing traffic diverter will not affect through-traffic, as the existing traffic diverter closed Fairway Loop to all