Item 5: Crest Drive Community Team Recommendations

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than motorists while riding uphill, and cannot “share the lane” comfortably. But not everyone who might want to ride a bike in the neighborhood is an experienced, well-trained cyclist. Many bicyclists will start pedaling up a hill, and then have to get off and walk. Do you really want someone walking a bicycle up a hill in a travel lane that is only nine feet wide? This is clearly an unsafe design. Please do not allow your weariness with the Crest Drive street process guide your decision. This project represents a significant investment in infrastructure that will remain in place for at least 50 years, and will serve both current and future residents. Public safety is not simply a design option—it is the minimum that is required, and the proposed Crest Drive plans do not provide safe conditions for bicyclists. Sincerely, Sue Wolling 85219 S. Willamette Eugene OR 97405 From: stan kluth [mailto:kluth2@yahoo.com] Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2008 2:00 PM To: *Eugene Mayor and City Council Cc: ctreadway@hotmail.com; monikakluth@yahoo.com Subject: 19 February Public Hearing on Crest Drive Street Design Subject: 19 February 2008 Public Input on the Crest Drive Community Team street designs As I will be out of the country and unable to personally attend the 19 February City Council public hearing on the Crest Drive Community Team preliminary street design proposals, I wish to submit my comments for the public record in writing. I strongly recommend to Council that the long hard work of the CDCT in hammering out a design acceptable to the majority of the residents be accepted, including the desire to limit sidewalk width to 4 feet where appropriate. While there may still be in my opinion highly selfish individual residents who object to anything but their own personal wishes, as well as individual non-residents who wish to impose their will on those of us who are residents, the majority of the neighborhood has seen, commented and approved the proposal as meeting the desire for a context sensitive design solution. While these NIMBYS may be highly vocal and prolific in their correspondence and protests against the designs, the designs do represent the consensus of the majority of residents. I should also like to note that the Crest Drive Community Association also voted overwhelmingly to support the designs and the sidewalk width on 12 February 2008. Before proceeding forward from the preliminary design to final design completion, however, I would like to request the following from Council and City Staff: 1.Prior to any decision on a classification for the streets – particularly Friendly from 28th to Lorane Highway, that a new traffic count be completed to determine the actual volume of vehicles which use it daily. When the initial plan to classify the streets as neighborhood collectors was prepared nearly 5 years ago, the traffic count was significantly higher that it is today. The majority of the traffic recorded. Particularly through traffic , was to visit a Eugene institution, Flics and Pics, which to all our regret has since closed. Since the departure of Flics and - 3 - Crest Drive CSS Design Recommendation Public Testimony 2/14/08 through 4/8/08