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II. JOINT PUBLIC HEARING ON TRANSPLAN . A. Staff Presentation John Replinger of L-COG presented the staff report. He said TransP1an was designed to replace the T-2000 Plan adopted in 1978. Work began on the TransPlan shortly after acknowledgment of the Metropolitan Area General Plan in 1982, and it was designed to be the transportation component of the Metropolitan Plan. Mr. Replinger said the two stages of preparation had included development of the Evaluation Report and development of a draft document, which was before officials tonight. He said the release of the Evaluation Report in May 1984 had three objectives--to document progress made on the T-2000 Plan in the last seven years, to evaluate the plan using new information from the 1980 census and the Metropolitan Area General Plan, and to seek guidance on the key issues that would affect development of the plan. Mr. Replinger said considerable public testimony and involvment had occurred during the public review of the Evaluation Report, and the three planning commissions and the Roads Advisory Committee in August had made recommenda- tions on the assumptions. He said the five key issues identified were the amount of transit use, the amount of alternative mode use, land use--including the amount of industrial development, trip-making rates, and the level of service criteria that would be used to identify the street and highway improvement needs. He said consensus on those issues had been reached by November of last year, and Eugene and Springfield City Councils and the Lane County Board of Commissioners had adopted the assumptions used to develop - TransPlan. r Work on TransPlan then began one year ago, led by the staff Transportation Planning Committee and by the citizen Metropolitan Area Planning Advisory Committee. Mr. Replinger noted that not all members of those two committees were completely satisfied with the draft document, but the only difference between the recommendations of the two committees had been the phasing of one of the 172 street and highway projects. He also said both committees recognized that TransPlan was not the answer to all transportation questions, and suggestions for additional study were included in one appendix. Mr. Replinger reviewed the information packets distributed with the agenda and said two of the planning commissions had made their recommendations, which were available, and recommendations from the Eugene Planning Commission and the Roads Advisory Committee would be distributed shortly, when they were completed. He also said all written materials from tonight's meeting would be made available, along with a copy of the minutes. B. Public Testimony Mayor Obie opened the public hearing. Karl Eysenbach, 966 Jackson, a member of the Lane County Planning Commission and officially representing the Metropolitan Area Planning Advisory Committee, said a majority of MAPAC members had endorsed the statement he read, the full e MINUTES--Joint Elected Officials Hearing--TransP1an December 4, 1985 Page 2 ...--