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(ODOT) had not been collaborative in the Norwalk Furniture Store, adding the existing geography did not <br />provide easy alternatives. <br /> <br />Mr. Pryor liked the way the project was moving along, and said he would support an amendment that <br />included a study of Beltline-Roosevelt Boulevard to West 11th Avenue. <br /> <br />Ms. Bettman said she could not support studying West 13th Avenue, and noted that West 11th Avenue had <br />good ridership. She said it was important to increase ridership rather than simply transferring the current <br />ridership to the new system to make best use of the funding. <br /> <br />Mr. Poling said when the Coburg Road EmX study was conducted, options along Crescent Drive, Chad <br />Drive, Harlow Road, Garden Way, and Martin Luther King Boulevard were included in the discussion. He <br />said it was imperative that property and business owners on other roads in the vicinity be included in any <br />conversations that would impact them. <br /> <br />Mr. Papé wanted to hear about land issues and Ballot Measure 37 issues that should be taken into <br />consideration when conducting the transportation studies. Mr. Schoening said those elements had been <br />included in the traffic model. He said the City of Eugene would be the lead agency on the transportation <br />study, with the UO, LTD, ODOT, Lane County of Governments (LCOG) and Lane County as partners. <br /> <br />In response to Ms. Solomon, Mr. Schoening said it would be difficult to study the River Road to Coburg <br />Road corridor without including the Delta Highway/Beltline interchange. <br /> <br />Mr. Kelly there was an opportunity to get some community consensus going with the West 11th Avenue <br />corridor study, by involving businesses, 1000 Friends of Oregon, and other interested parties, in a short, <br />th <br />collaborative brainstorming process. He noted planning was completed for improvements on West 11 <br />Avenue between Terry Street and Greenhill Road. Mr. Kelly said it was important that a corridor study for <br />West 11th Avenue include the surrounding road network, including parts of Roosevelt Boulevard, West 13th <br />Avenue, and others. <br /> <br />In response to Ms. Bettman, Mr. Viggiano said including West 18th Avenue in the West 11th Avenue <br />corridor study would be a stretch, in that the industry standard was one-quarter mile walking distance from <br />an arterial. He added LTD would consider West 18th Avenue a different corridor for transit uses. <br /> <br />Ms. Bettman said Highway 99 was a better fit for a corridor study than West 11th Avenue, and she would <br />vote against the corridor for EmX. <br /> <br />In response to a question from Ms. Bettman, Mr. Schoening replied there were multiple ways to do access <br />management: amend the land use code to allow looking at each new development with access management <br />in mind; and, look for opportunities to increase safety and mobility on existing corridors. <br /> <br />Responding to Mayor Piercy, Mr. Viggiano said LTD staff thought West 11th Avenue was a strong transit <br />corridor. He added the LTD Board of Directors had not yet taken a position, but would likely defer to the <br />City of Eugene on corridor selection. <br /> <br />Mr. Poling hoped the City of Veneta would be invited to participate in any West 11th Avenue corridor <br />discussions. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />MINUTES—City Council October 9, 2006 Page 5 <br /> Work Session <br /> <br />