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<br />transportation choices; and that reliance on the automobile has led to increased <br />congestion, travel distances, and travel times. <br />2. Studies annotated in the Land Use Measures Task Force Report Bibliography have found <br />that land use development patterns have an impact on transportation choices; that <br />separation of land uses and low-density residential and commercial development over <br />large areas makes the distance between destinations too far apart for convenient travel by <br />means other than a car; and that people who live in neighborhoods with grid pattern <br />streets, nearby employment and shopping opportunities, and continuous access to <br />sidewalks and convenient pedestrian crossings tend to make more walking and transit <br />trips. <br /> <br />3. The Oregon Highway Plan (OHP)(January 1999) states that focusing growth on more <br />compact development patterns can benefit transportation by: reducing local trips and <br />travel on state highways; shortening the length of many vehicle trips; providing more <br />opportunities to walk, bicycle, or use available transit services; increasing opportunities <br />to develop transit, and reducing the number of vehicle trips to shop and do business. <br /> <br />4. OTP policies emphasize reducing reliance on the automobile and call for transportation <br />systems that support mixed-land uses, compact cities, and connections among various <br />transportation modes to make walking, bicycling, and the use of public transit easier. The <br />OTP provides that the state will encouragcand give preference to projects and grant <br />proposals that support compact or infill development or mixed use projects. The OTP <br />also contains actions to promote the design and development of infrastructure and land <br />use patterns that encourage alternatives to the single-occupant automobile. <br /> <br />5. The Oregon Transportation Planning Rule (TPR) [OAR 660-012-0060 (1)(c,d)(5)] <br />encourages plans to provide for mixed-use, pedestrian-friendly development, based on <br />information that documents the benefits of such development and the Land Conservation <br />and Development Commission's policy interest in encoUraging such development to <br />reduce reliance on the automobile. The rule [OAR 660-012-0045 (4)(a and e)] requires <br />local governments to adopt land use regulations that allow transit-oriented developments <br />on lands along transit routes and require major developments to provide either a transit <br />stop on site or connection to a transit stop when the transit operator requires such an <br />improvement. The rule [OAR 660-012-0045 (3)] also requires local governments to <br />adopt land use regulations that provide for safe and convenient pedestrian and bicycle <br />access within new developments and from these developments to adjacent residential <br />areas and transit stops and to neighborhood activity centers. <br /> <br />6. A 24-member Citizen Task Force, representing a broad range of interests in the Eugene- <br />Springfield area, created, evaluated, and refined the nodal development land use strategy <br />over a seven-month period as part of the update of TransPlan. The Task Force intended <br />the strategy to encourage development patterns that will support a multi-modal <br />transportation system. <br /> <br />Exhibit A <br />Metro Plan Text Amendments <br /> <br />3 <br />