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(c) As measured at the end of the planning period identified in the adopted transportation system plan: (A) Allow land uses or levels of development that would result in types or levels of travel or access that are inconsistent with the functional classification of an existing or planned transportation facility; (B) Reduce the performance of an existing or planned transportation facility below the minimum acceptable performance standard identified in the TSP or comprehensive plan; or (C) Worsen the performance of an existing or planned transportationfacility that is otherwise projected to perform below the minimum acceptable performance standard identified in the TSP or comprehensive plan. The proposed amendment will allow for the construction of bridges to replace existing bridge facilities that have been decommissioned as being structurally unsafe. The replacement bridges will be constructed in approximately the same location as the decommissioned bridge. Since 2004 (when the primary bridges were decommissioned as unsafe), a (temporary) detour bridge has provided 1-5 traffic access over the Willamette River. Once the proposed bridges are constructed, existing traffic volumes currently using the detour bridge will be shifted from the detour bridge to the new bridges. Construction of the proposed bridges will simply reroute traffic from the current detour bridge to the (permanent) replacement bridges allowed by the proposed amendment. While the replacement bridges will be designed and constructed to accommodate six lanes of travel, because 1-5 is only four lanes, the bridges will be striped for four lanes. Until 1-5 is \videned to six lanes, the bridges will remain striped for four lanes. Designing and constructing the bridges to allow for six lanes of travel is intended to accommodate future traffic needs traveling along 1-5; the additional 1-5 traffic will be generated by future development throughout the State of Oregon and, because 1-5 is a major interstate, throughout the United States. The construction of the replacement bridges, whether striped for four lane or six lanes, does not generate any additional vehicular trips, it simply provides passage over the Willamette River. When the bridges are eventually striped for six lanes (to be made consistent with 1-5), the additional bridge capacity will increase the performance and function of 1-5, not worsen it. Accordingly, the proposed amendment will not allow land uses or levels of developnlent that will result in types or levels of travel or access that are inconsistent with the functional classification of an existing or planned transportation facility under OAR 660-012-0060(l)(c)(A). Further, the proposed amendments will not reduce the performance of an existing or planned transportation facility below the minimum acceptable performance standard identified in the TSP or comprehensive plan under (1)( c )(B), or worsen the performance of an existing or planned transportation facility that is otherwise projected to perform below the minimum acceptable performance standard identified in the TSP or comprehensive plan under (1)( c )(C). Exhibit A - Findings Page 22