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3. Improve community health by designing streets and paths to encourage increased physical activity by the public. Potential Actions for System -Wide Policies C. Create a strategy to facilitate 90 percent of Eugene residences to be within "20 - minute neighborhoods." The strategy might include methods to improve proximity of residences to services and prioritizing projects that improve convenience and safety for walking, biking, and connections to transit stops. Pedestrian Policies 1. Encourage walking as the most attractive mode of transportation for short trips (e.g., within one half miles) within and to activity centers, downtown, key corridors, and major destinations, and as a means of accessing transit. Potential Actions for Pedestrian Policies B. Provide street crossing enhancements and expanded crosswalk education and enforcement programs. C. Provide support for Safe Routes to School programs and other programs that create safe walking conditions between residences and schools and other neighborhood destinations. 5. The Oregon Department of Transportation's (ODOT) "A Guide to School Area Safety" describes five conditions, stating that "[w]here all of the following conditions exist, a school speed zone is recommended when supported by an engineering study: • The roadway is adjacent to the school grounds (not limited to front of school buildings); • There is at least one marked school crosswalk within the proposed school zone which is not protected by a signal or STOP sign; • The property houses a full time public or private school; • The school is elementary or middle level (schools that include grades K-8) instruction; and, • The posted speed is 40 MPH or below. Four of the above-described five conditions exist on East Amazon Drive from approximately 200 -feet north of Fox Hollow Road to 230 -feet south of Fox Hollow Road. As described in paragraph 10, further evaluation done through an engineering study demonstrates the need for a school speed zones in these locations. 6. In accordance with ODOT's "A Guide to School Area Safety" and the Federal Highway Administration's "Manual of Uniform Traffic Control Devices," the City completed an Administrative Order -- Page 4 of 5