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ATTACHMENT B ~ October 18, 2004 CITY OF EUGENE CREST DRIVE AREA STREET CLASSIFICATION PROCESS BACKGROUND The Assignment In April 2004 at a City Council Work Session on the subject effort, council directed Public Works staff to perform additional and more inclusive public involvement with the neighborhood to inform interested parties of our efforts and provide opportunity for input on street classification in the Crest Drive area. Staff Activities Public Works contracted with Sat-re Associates, P.C. to facilitate two formal neighborhood meetings, thc first of which was at Morse Ranch Park and the second which was at Crest Drive Elementary School. In addition to these large meetings, Rick Satre of Sat-re Associates and Gary McNccl, Public Works Engineering staff, met with a small group of neighbors known as the "Save our Streets" committee to gain an understanding of their issues with our effort. Rick and Gary also met with a small subcommittee of that group to review and accept their independent neighborhood traffic study. Rick and Gary subsequently participated in a walkabout on Storey, Crest and Friendly with a small group of neighbors to review the feasibility of potential future road improvements and discuss the City's vision and neighborhood perspective of future improvements. The meetings were scheduled and a variety of notices utilized, including postcards mailed to all addresses in the study area, large signs posted on Crest, Storey, and Friendly, newspaper advertisements in thc Register-Guard and general news releases. These were sent prior to each meeting to ensure adequate notification and an interested parties sign-up sheet collected at each meeting for mail-out of our responses to questions and comments received, an agenda for the upcoming meetings and materials requested by participants. The first formal meeting with thc neighbors was held August 10, 2004 in the outdoor picnic shelter at Morse Ranch Park at 595 Crest Drive from 7:00 to 9:00 pm. Thc meeting was well attended by approximately 200 participants including neighbors, Mayor Torrcy, Councilors Bettman and Taylor, City Manager Dennis Taylor, Public Works Director Kurt Corey, City Engineer Mark Schoening and Neighborhood Association Chair Paul Thompson. The format of this meeting was to gather concerns and comments verbally or in writing from interested parties about the City's street classification efforts. The second formal meeting with thc neighbors was conducted September 29, 2004 in the gymnasium at Crest Drive Elementary School at 1155 Crest Drive from 4:00 to 7:30 pm. The format of this session was an hour of self-directed review of several stations illustrating thc classification process, August 2004 public comments received, traffic studies conducted by staff and thc neighborhood, maps and photos, and Context Sensitive Design. The second portion of the meeting was a design workshop format where participants were provided several maps of