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Draft 9/29/14 large areas makes the distance between destinations too far apart for convenient travel by means other than a car; and that people who live in neighborhoods with grid pattern streets, nearby employment and shopping opportunities, and continuous access to sidewalks and convenient pedestrian crossings tend to make more walking and transit trips. 3.The Oregon Highway Plan (OHP) (January 1999) states that focusing growth on more compact development patterns can benefit transportation by: reducing local trips and travel on state highways; shortening the length of many vehicle trips; providing more opportunities to walk, bicycle, or use available transit services; increasing opportunities to develop transit, and reducing the number of vehicle trips to shop and do business. 4.OTP policies emphasize reducing reliance on the automobile and call for transportation systems that support mixed-land uses, compact cities, and connections among various transportation modes to make walking, bicycling, and the use of public transit easier. The OTP provides that the state will encourage and give preference to projects and grant proposals that support compact or infill development or mixed use projects. The OTP also contains actions to promote the design and development of infrastructure and land use patterns that encourage alternatives to the single-occupant automobile. 5. The Oregon Transportation Planning Rule (TPR) [OAR 660-012-0060(1)(c) and (d) and (5)] encourages plans to provide for mixed-use, pedestrian-friendly development, based on information that documents the benefits of such development and the Land Conservation and Development Commission’s (LCDC) policy interest in encouraging such development to reduce reliance on the automobile. The rule [OAR 660-012- 0045(4)(a) and (e)] requires local governments to adopt land use regulations that allow transit-oriented developments on lands along transit routes and require major developments to provide either a transit stop on site or connection to a transit stop when the transit operator requires such an improvement. The rule [OAR 660-012-0045(3)] also requires local governments to adopt land use regulations that provide for safe and convenient pedestrian and bicycle access within new developments and from these developments to adjacent residential areas and transit stops and to neighborhood activity centers. 6.A 24-member Citizen Task Force (Task Force), representing a broad range of interests in the Eugene-Springfield area, created, evaluated, and refined the nodal development land use strategy over a seven-month period as part of the update of TransPlan.The Task Force intended the strategy to encourage development patterns that will support a multi- modal transportation system. 7. Nodal development is consistent with the policy direction of Policy 1B of the OHP to coordinate land use and transportation decisions to efficiently use public infrastructure investments to: Maintain the mobility and safety of the highway system; Foster compact development patterns in communities; III-F-3