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for a 6' bike lane, would leave a total of 9' to accommodate two vehicle travel lanes of 4.5' each. <br />The location of the road leaves little room for widening without such drastic measures as <br />building retaining walls and the destruction of hundreds of trees. (Hopefully these two Lorane <br />Highway projects will be removed from the TSP, following the staffÈs recommendations.) <br />Completing Ñat maps is very different from dealing with the real topography of land, one is on a <br />Ñat plane of paper, while the ground is dimensional with nature's limitations. All of the proposed <br />complete streets can not possibly work citywide. <br />Also PB-256, Lincoln St accessway, W 30th Ave to W 31st Ave, 0.08 miles, $66,000 cost <br />estimate from 2014 is too expensive and a ridiculously steep location. The police department <br />has said at a Southeast Neighbors meeting that accessways bring more crime into the <br />neighborhood, and therefore more problems into Wayne Morse Family Farm. <br />Another aspect of the proposed street projects that needs to be considered is the potential of <br />assessments to the owners whose properties abut projects on "unimproved" streets. These <br />assessments often run into thousands of dollars per property, causing a major Ðnancial <br />hardship. Also property owners are responsible for sidewalk installation and maintenance which <br />cost about $100 a linear foot, creating more of a Ðnancial hardship. <br />No on Complete Streets in all of Eugene, itÈs unworkable and ridiculously expensive! <br />Kurt Yeiter said, the TSP planning team met 12 times over a few years. Were any businesses on <br />South Willamette St asked to have input besides "Arriving by Bike" about the bike lanes? PB-31: <br />Willamette Street, 24th to 30th Ave, .85 miles, $115,000 from old 2014 Cost Estimates. It is <br />currently being ÅtestedÆ (not really) with restriping with bike lanes, so the TSP should not include <br />South Willamette Street with bike lanes in their plan. Businesses may not be doing well because <br />of this change. (That data is questionable, no businesses IÈve asked are providing Ðnancial info.) <br />Maybe they should embrace Oak & Willamette together regarding bike lanes so they become <br />more of a supportive shopping area with bike lanes on Oak Street. PB-31, adding bike lanes to <br />South Willamette St is being pushed and promoted by the Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory <br />Committee (BPAC). Were any property owners that are directly affected by PB-31 invited to be <br />part of the TSP planning team? I wasn't and my property is on W 29th Ave, which now has <br />increased trafÐc from automobiles avoiding the congested South Willamette St with reduced <br />lanes and bicyclists now traveling in both directions on both sides of the street, using the bike <br />paths and sidewalks. Aren't the sidewalks supposed to be for pedestrians to have safe walking? <br />What was the point of adding bike lanes if the bicyclists can ride on the sidewalks? Bi-Mart and <br />the Quarry were both invited to be part of the TSP planning team regarding truck transportation <br />and shipping, and the latter will make quite a proÐt with the Beltline development need for <br />gravel. <br />From Kurt Yeiter's 6/15/16 Council of Southwest Neighbors (CSEN) TSP discussion, "No one is <br />thrilled with the plan, there were lots of tradeoffs, but the City is aiming for the best balance. The <br />City has heard that they did not do enough outreach." I agree the balance still is not there and <br />the TSP still needs work. <br />The City with BPAC's help did a survey, http://www.centrallanertsp.org/sites/default/Ðles/ <br />EugeneSpringÐeldTravelBarriersBeneÐtsSurvey.pdf <br />The Ðndings include: <br />2 <br /> <br />