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e traffic enforcement officers feel they are not able to respond as well as they would like. In June, traffic enforcement will be expanded to weekends. In addition, the unit should provide better coverage of rushhour traffic, and response time to accident-related violations should improve. Lieutenant Loveall said the traffic enforcement unit also plans to implement a public education program. Lieutenant Loveall said that at this point, there is no firm data establishing a correlation between the number of traffic citations issued and the accident rate. He said experience indicates that they are inversely related. Lieutenant Loveall said the traffic control officers intend to work more closely with the City engineering staff to correlate enforcement activity to accidents. Ms. Schue was interested in statistics which would indicate whether the level of enforcement affects the accident rate. Bob Noble, Transportation Division, explained that these statistics are very hard to collect because the police do not investigate every accident in the city of Eugene. Without investigations, it is impossible to know the cause of the accident. Mr. Noble assured Ms. Schue that staff would attempt to collect data indicating a correlation between the accident rate and traffic enforcement over the next few months. Ms. Ehrman asked if consideration has been given to ralslng the speed limit on some city streets. Mr. Noble said raising speed zones can be very controversial, especially when it involves a residential or collector street. He said staff would like to hold a work session with the council on the tit classification of streets and speed zone issues. IV. WORK SESSION: ORDINANCE CONCERNING MOBILE HOME PARK CONVERSIONS Robin Johnson, Housing Consultant for the City, gave the staff report. The Planning Commission began to review the issues regarding mobile home park tenant and owner displacement in the spring of 1988. The intent of the ordinance is to help tenants facing displacement caused by park closures due to the change of use from residential to non-residential or commercial or industrial. She said the problem was created in the 1950s and 1960s when cities allowed mobile homes and/or trailer parks as interim uses in commercial or industrial zones. Ms. Johnson there are 18 parks, with a total of 588 spaces, located in Eugene and Glenwood. The housing located in these parks is part of the City's low-income housing stock. It is occupied primarily by low-income households, a great number of which are elderly. A forced move caused by conversion could cause grave financial problems for these tenants. Moving a mobile home can cost between $2,000 and $2,500, depending on the width. In addition, Ms. Johnson said it is very difficult for elderly and disabled residents to move. Ms. Johnson said the draft Mobile Home Park Conversion Ordinance is very similar to the Condominium Conversion Ordinance. She reviewed the major provisions in the ordinance. She noted that the proposed ordinance goes e MINUTES--Eugene City Council May 17, 1989 Page 6