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1. The Oregon Transportation Plan (OTP) (1992) states that Oregon's land use <br /> development patterns have tended to separate residential areas from employment and <br /> commercial centers, requiring people to drive almost everywhere they go; that the results <br /> have been increased congestion, air pollution, and sprawl in the metropolitan areas and <br /> diminished livability; that these auto-dependent land use patterns limit mobility and <br /> transportation choices; and that reliance on the automobile has led to increased <br /> congestion, travel distances, and travel times. <br /> <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, ac.d 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. <br /> The OT? provides that the state will encourage and 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) and (d) and <br /> (5)] encourages plans to provide for mixed-use, pedestrian-friendly development, based <br /> on information that documents the benefits of such development and the Land <br /> Conservation and Development Commission's (LCDC) policy interest in encouraging <br /> such development to reduce reliance on the automobile. The rule [OAR 660-012- <br /> 0045(4)(a) and (e)] requires local governments to adopt land use regulations that allow <br /> transit-oriented developments on lands along transit routes and require major <br /> developments to provide either a transit stop on site or connection to a transit stop when <br /> the transit operator requires such an improvement. The rule [OAR 660-012-0045(3)] also <br /> requires local governments to adopt land use regulations that provide for safe and <br /> convenient pedestrian and bicycle access within new developments and from these <br /> developments to adjacent residential areas and transit stops and to neighborhood activity <br /> centers. <br /> <br /> III-F-3 <br /> <br /> <br />