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e Mayor Miller asked whether staff is investigating alternatives for handling the traffic flow between Eugene and the Gateway Mall other than Harlow Road. Mr. Reinhard said the State does not want a new interchange on 1-5 between 1-105 and Beltline Road because of spacing concerns. He said staff will use signs to influence preferred traffic routes to the Gateway Mall. Mr. Reinhard said the City will not put signs for the Gateway Mall along Harlow Road. Mr. Rutan suggested that the traffic from the Gateway Mall be run parallel to 1-5, south to Centennial Boulevard, and be brought into Eugene on Centennial Boulevard. Other councilors expressed interest in this idea. The council reached consensus that Harlow Road should not be encouraged as a major route to the Gateway Mall. Ms. Bascom moved, seconded by Mr. Rutan, to approve and forward to the Metropolitan Policy Committee the attached preliminary list of State highway projects in Eugene, for inclusion in the 1990 update of the State Six-Year Highway Improvement Program, with the caution that the Harlow Road Overpass not be widened. The motion passed unanimously, 6:0. Mr. Reinhard distributed a letter from Randy Hledik, Chair of the Eugene Chamber of Commerce Transportation Committee. The letter offers support for the preliminary project list. . e IV. URBAN RENEWAL PLAN UPDATE Bob Hibschman, Planning and Development Department, gave the staff report. He said a major component of the Urban Renewal Plan is a financial pla~ which gives an indication of the projects to be undertaken in implementing the goals and objectives of the plan. The financial analysis also indicates the feasibility of implementing the plan. Mr. Hibschman reviewed some of the major projects that are expected to be undertaken by the renewal district. These included: development parking loans; site development projects; building rehabilitation/reuse projects; street redesigns; development of a public plaza; development of a new LTD station; and future parking loans. Mr. Hibschman said the council may also wish to consider adding a library to this list of projects. He said staff is requesting direction about which of these projects to include in the financial plan and about the expanded renewal district boundaries. Mr. Bennett did not feel that past council policy supported inclusion of the library on the list of proposed projects. He said it was more reasonable for the council to consider a library as an urban renewal project, when a specific proposal is made. Ms. Ehrman agreed that it would be hard to attach a project cost to a library at this time, but she did not want to forestall the possibility of developing a library in the urban renewal district by not including it on the list. . MINUTES--Eugene City Council July 26, 1989 Page 5