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- Council he did not believe there would be a time change because of L-COG's understanding of the Councills high interest. Mr. Delay did not agree with TCP removing themselves from evaluation. He expressed another concern regarding the time lag, noting he felt Council should fully explore as much as possible the alternatives early in the process rather than waiting until the last minute when it is up against a time deadline. He wanted a process in which Council could get meaningful data early for evaluation and expressed confidence in TPC, noting he would like to see their results. Assistant Manager assured Mr. Delay that TPC will react to the data. Regarding Mr. Delay's concern of the time frame, he said that was the reason for reminding Council they were involved in an on-going process. Council will be looking at on-going problems that will be dealing with such things as air quality, modal splits, and financing of the projects. e Jim Farah, Planner, said the overall context in which the Plan was prepared was in the context of a given population of 277,000 by the year 2000. He said itls possible that population estimate will be reached before or after that year. Regarding the points raised at the public hearing held April 17, he said the overall land-use allocation for Transportation Plan, major development was assumed to occur in Goodpasture Island area. Second, he said, Eugene downtown area was considered to continue as a major employment center which was consistent with the Goals and Plans adopted by Council previously. It would also assume the continued residential development in the central area. Also, the major residential growth in the west and southwest areas of the city were targeted areas with the project intended to address that Qrowth. It was also imoortant for Council to note that little residential development in the River Road area was assumed because of the inability to develop sewers and the lack of land left for development. Further, the Plan is predicated on preventing service level E in traffic congestion, with the intent to plan for preventing that level. He noted the projects would be implemented on a case-by-case basis. Also, the Plan was attempting to reach a middle-ground focus based on the broad prespective of issues. James Bernhard, President, Planning Commission, reviewed for Council the Planning Commissionls consideration of the Plan. On March 22, formal recom- mendations had been submitted to Council after consideration of the Plan and the consideration of oral and written testimony. He said that recom- mendation provides for long-range direction for the transportation issue as it affects decisions relating to land use. - Mr. Bernhard reviewed the five basic elements in the Plan for Council. First, he said the policies had significant effect on the existing City Plans and Goals, noting there were many land-use conflicts. Thus, the Planning Commission was recommending the update of the 1990 Plan. The Planning Commission reviewed the policy in detail and felt there were significant values of the Plan. He noted some small changes in wording from negative to positive statements. The Planning Commission recognized the roadway capacity effects, and that becomes a key element of the Plan. He said also that the Planning Commission was recommending that any plan adopted needs a yearly update. 4/19/78--7 2..7/