03/06/17 City Council Agenda Packet

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widening without such drastic measures as building retaining walls and the destruction of hundreds of trees. (Hopefully these two Lorane Highway projects will be removed from the TSP, following the staff’s recommendations.) Completing flat maps is very different from dealing with the real topography of land, one is on a flat plane of paper, while the ground is dimensional with nature's limitations. All of the proposed complete streets can not possibly work citywide. Also PB-256, Lincoln St accessway, W 30th Ave to W 31st Ave, 0.08 miles, $66,000 cost estimate from 2014 is too expensive and a ridiculously steep location. The police department has said at a Southeast Neighbors meeting that accessways bring more crime into the neighborhood, and therefore more problems into Wayne Morse Family Farm. Another aspect of the proposed street projects that needs to be considered is the potential of assessments to the owners whose properties abut projects on "unimproved" streets. These assessments often run into thousands of dollars per property, causing a major financial hardship. Also property owners are responsible for sidewalk installation and maintenance which cost about $100 a linear foot, creating more of a financial hardship. No on Complete Streets in all of Eugene, it’s unworkable and ridiculously expensive! Kurt Yeiter said, the TSP planning team met 12 times over a few years. Were any businesses on South Willamette St asked to have input besides "Arriving by Bike" about the bike lanes? PB-31: Willamette Street, 24th to 30th Ave, .85 miles, $115,000 from old 2014 Cost Estimates. It is currently being “tested” (not really) with restriping with bike lanes, so the TSP should not include South Willamette Street with bike lanes in their plan. Businesses may not be doing well because of this change. (That data is questionable, no businesses I’ve asked are providing financial info.) Maybe they should embrace Oak & Willamette together regarding bike lanes so they become more of a supportive shopping area with bike lanes on Oak Street. PB-31, adding bike lanes to South Willamette St is being pushed and promoted by the Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Committee (BPAC). Were any property owners that are directly affected by PB-31 invited to be part of the TSP planning team? I wasn't and my property is on W 29th Ave, which now has increased traffic from automobiles avoiding the congested South Willamette St with reduced lanes and bicyclists now traveling in both directions on both sides of the street, using the bike paths and sidewalks. Aren't the sidewalks supposed to be for pedestrians to have safe walking? What was the point of adding bike lanes if the bicyclists can ride on the sidewalks? Bi-Mart and the Quarry were both invited to be part of the TSP planning team regarding truck transportation and shipping, and the latter will make quite a profit with the Beltline development need for gravel. From Kurt Yeiter's 6/15/16 Council of Southwest Neighbors (CSEN) TSP discussion, "No one is thrilled with the plan, there were lots of tradeoffs, but the City is aiming for the best balance. The City has heard that they did not do enough outreach." I agree the balance still is not there and the TSP still needs work. The City with BPAC's help did a survey, http://www.centrallanertsp.org/sites/default/files/EugeneSpringfieldTravelBarriersBenefitsSurvey.pdf The findings include: The Most Important Issues local government leaders should address: 1. Poverty/homelessness, 2. Road infrastructure, 3. Jobs/unemployment, 4./5. Education funding/Education-general, 6. Wasteful spending/inappropriate use of funds by government, 7. Crime and 8. Traffic. (Note #1 Income is needed to get out of Poverty and affordable housing is needed to get out of Homelessness, not more new expensive housing densification.) The Transportation Issues that local government leaders should address: 1. Improved road