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enhanced pedestrian street crossings. ODOT has shown that the inclusion of these types of <br />enhancements can significantly reduce fatal and life-changing injury crashes. <br />ADATP <br /> RANSITION LAN <br />As part of Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990, the City of Eugene <br />conducted an evaluation of its public rights-of-way, and developed a transition plan that outlines <br />in detail how the organization will ensure safe access to all of its facilities for all individuals. <br />Public Works collected detailed data on over 15,000 ramps and 250 pedestrian signals to <br />develop transition schedules specific to these facilities. The Public Works Director approved the <br />ADA Transition Plan for the Public Rights-of-Way by Administrative Order in July 2015. All <br />capital rehabilitation projects are evaluated for access compliance and potential improvements <br />during scoping and preliminary design. <br />As part of the 2017 capital paving projects, the City upgraded 235 sidewalk ramps and three <br />pedestrian islands. <br />Sustainability and Gains through Technical Developments <br />In 2010, Eugene created the Community Climate and Energy Action <br />Plan (CEAP), joining a growing list of forward-thinking cities around <br />the world that are addressing climate change and energy challenges <br />by planning with vision and creativity. The Climate Recovery <br />Ordinance (CRO), adopted in 2014 and updated in 2016, is our <br />community’s next step toward fulfilling these efforts. The 2016 update <br />established the goal of reducing the 2010 levels of community fossil <br />fuel use by 50 percent by the year 2030. Eugene is on a path to reach <br />this goal. <br />The City of Eugene continually strives to improve the quality, environmental footprint, and cost <br />efficiency of its projects. In 2017, Eugene continued to use warm mix asphalt pavement and <br />increased use of reclaimed binder to meet these sustainability criteria. <br />Warm mix asphalt continued to be specified for all the paving projects in 2017 in place of <br />conventional hot mix asphalt; approximately 29,000 tons of warm mix asphalt pavement was <br />placed on capital paving projects in 2017. As explained in the Key Terms section of this report, <br />warm mix asphalt provides environmental and human health benefits as well as a potentially <br />longer lasting product. The National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) <br />estimates that there is a CO savings of 12 pounds per ton of pavement when using warm mix as <br />2 <br />compared to traditional hot mix asphalt. The NCHRP also estimates that the use of warm mix <br />asphalt reduces the energy used in the asphalt batch plant by about 30 percent compared to hot <br />mix asphalt. <br />Reclaimed asphalt pavement (RAP) has been used in Eugene for more than 20 years. Like the <br />State of Oregon, Eugene’s current standard specification allows up to 30 percent RAP, by weight, <br />to be used in new asphalt pavement mixes. For several years, local asphalt producers have <br />supplied mixes that maximize the allowed RAP content. <br />2017 Report to the SRRP Page 6 <br /> <br />