03/06/17 City Council Agenda Packet

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Kurt Yeiter also mentioned the Climate Recovery Ordinance (CRO) included in the TSP. The CRO wants a 50% reduction in CO2 and automobiles using the road by 2030. This is unrealistic to the extreme. The TSP Complete Streets want to narrow streets and eliminate street parking to create congestion to eliminate automobiles. In reality there will be more congestion, not less cars. I have seen no decrease in car trafÐc, you are creating more of a problem, not solving one. In the context of the CRO, increasing capacity on Beltline does not make sense while at the same time strangling the cityÈs trafÐc. If Vision Zero is part of TSP, bike helmets should be mandatory to support the policy of zero injuries and deaths. Also bike registration should be required to provide education for bicyclists, (like automobile drivers), and to provide ID for bikes in case of theft. There appears to be no age limit with kids riding bikes along busy streets, even if they are not in control of a bike yet, this is unsafe and irresponsible, remember Vision Zero goals. Skateboards and bikes can ride in any direction on the sidewalks of South Willamette Street. Skateboards can ride in the bike lanes if going in the correct direction. (Downtown and other places have limits, this should be looked into since it seems automobiles will be at fault in an accident, there needs to be some protections from irresponsible behavior in the bike lanes or on the sidewalks.) (Ex. The Ðrst week of the restriping 2 kids were racing south to north full speed, one in the bike path and the other on the sidewalk.) (Ex. My daughter had a skateboarder lose control in front of her, the skateboard went under her bike wheel, she Ñew off her bike in Amazon Park, did a complete Ñip over the handle bars, landing on her butt, she was lucky she didnÈt hit her head on the cement bike path. This accident was no fault of her own, she was glad to be wearing a helmet, as she always does for safety.) What if this accident had happened on South Willamette Street with pedestrians, bikes and cars present, how safe would all these people be and how big would this accident have become? Instead of aiming to remove 50% of motor vehicles from the roads re the CRO, vehicles that meet a fuel efÐcient standard should be rewarded through tax incentives and gas guzzlers should be penalized. Motor vehicles should be tested for pollution with exhaust standards to get them Ðxed or off the road like in other states. Maybe the Federal government, State or auto dealers with hybrid/electric vehicles would give incentives to support the CRO efforts. We are so close to having fully electric cars priced affordably for most people to purchase and drive, it makes no sense to change the city to accommodate bicyclists as a priority. Fully electric cars are driving the streets of Eugene right now. The South Willamette Concept Plan originally aspired to Portland's development, and now we know the mistakes that density has caused to their neighborhoods and community with over development, expensive high rent development and trafÐc congestion in Portland. Can we learn from PortlandÈs mistakes and not repeat their trafÐc/densiÐcation problems? South Willamette is supposed to be a template for all of Eugene, as well as Coburg Road, River Road and the other proposed special area zones, 15 in all, the people in the special area zones need to understand the implications of this TSP Plan in Eugene. I see no efforts from the city to reach out and truly inform the public about these changes to these neighborhoods. The TSP is creating multimodal corridors so densiÐcation can be created in proposed special area zones, like the South Willamette-Special Area Zone (SW-SAZ). 4