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- V. Consideration of Representatives of Valley River Center to Discuss Traffic Planning in their Area Letter and Memo distributed. Manager said that City staff should take the matter to Transportation Planning Committee and MATC~ and include it in the con~inuing process of updating the T-2000 Transportation Plan. - Richard Hansen, Manager Valley-River Center~ said that they testified berore the T-2000 Committee and none of the informatio1 was addressed in the final document or that meeting. Also, the County ~as given a temporary stop-gap with a proposed off-ramp that received negative support from the City, and now is receiving support from them. He feels that the City should support a system that would provide an off-ramp southbound on Delta Highway~ an on-ramp southbound on Delta Highway to the Goodpasture Island area~ and also a complete interchange that will allow ~eople coming in either direction on the Delta to get off at another exit. He feels that the City needs to support other ways of getting to the island rather than on the freeway--ways from River Road area and from Coburg Road area. Ken Tollenaar, 1022 Russet Drive, Chairman of Delta PO'1ds Committee of the Cal Young Neighborhood Association, spoke regarding the Cal Young neighborhood statement adopted two months ago. He distributed copies of the statement to the Councilors. He said that Point No. 5 proposes to encourage a special planning study of the Goodpasture Island area, includ- ing study of flood hazards. Because of their concern, the neighborhood group is in favor of City Manager's recommendation. John Eubank, 1500 Norkenzie, Vice President of Eugene Athletic Club, a development on Goodpasture Island Road, said that the athletic club and a new 56-unit apartment complex will be additions to the area, and will create a larger traffic flow problem, and feels that those two concerns should be taken into consideration. Richard Case, 2023 Goodpasture Island Road, District Manager, Northwest Natural Gas facility located west of the K-Mart complex, spoke to the concern of safety to the people in the area. He said that the only '.'Iay to go west on Goodpasture is to cross the eastbound lane, and also people make left turns across the eastbound lane to get down onto Delta, which he feels creates a traffic hazard. Mr. Haws said that he is sympathetic to Mr. Tollenaar's concern, but unsympathetic to any further Public Works Projects in that area. . In response to Mr. lieuallen's questions, Mr. John Porter, Planning Department, said that at the time that the Goodpasture Island Report was completed and the land-use area was changed from residential to commercial, the report indicated that the two interchanges, the north Goodpasture Island and south Goodpasture Island, would have to be improved~ that they weren't properly designed to handle the traffic. He said that they held off making suggested changes until the T-2000 Plan was reviewed. He said that his Department feels that the interchanges are ir.adequate. MINUTES--Eugene City Council June 6, 1979 Page 5 -3/7