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three years and before a final decision is made, if it is a significant departure from the existing alignment, they could invoke Policy 13 to also have a greenway exception. Bettman commented because of the time that is going to be involved in doing the planning and design work for the permanent bridge, it was premature to include an exemption. She added there were several caveats in the ordinance including the one that was questioned by the planning commissions. She said the findings did not address all of the caveats. She thought it would be cleaner since they are trying to accomplish the fast track of the detour bridge that they should be taking the permanent bridge out because they are pre-approving exemptions without knowing what it would look like. She noted the right-of-way was also referenced in the new wording for the Metro Plan amendment. She asked what the dimensions were and whether or not the findings should include a legal description of what the right-of-way is. She noted the right-of- way extends west of the existing permanent bridge and the footprint of the proposed permanent bridge into the City of Eugene's jurisdiction. She asked if the exemption extends into that right- of-way, even though there is nothing mentioned for that right-of-way. Fuller explained on the north side of the river, ODOT's right of way is 170 feet east of the centerline of the existing highway and 165 feet west of the existing centerline highway. Bettman suggested including the map in the adoption that contains the specific dimensions. She commented that all of the findings are predicated on the bridge being temporary. She asked what happens at some point in the future if the decision is made to modify the terminus and use it for bus rapid transit or bicycles and pedestrians. She also asked what happens if this bridge becomes permanent. Mott responded the expectation is that the bridge would come down once the replacement bridge goes up. He said the findings that are responsive to the greenway goals, in particular restoration, presume that it is going to come down and the land area would be restored to equal to or better than it is today. He said there is an assumption in the findings that justify the exception that it is coming down and the ordinance speaks to its removal. He said the question about setting a time limit on it so they would know for certain when it would come down, or the possibility of it staying forever was discussed at the joint planning commission hearing. He said the discussion of a date certain was dismissed because of the uncertainty about funding and how long it might take. He said the design life was lasting longer than ten years. He didn't think there was anything in the ordinance where the detour bridge will come down when the replacement bridge goes up. Bettman suggested it would be easy and a necessary part of the ordinance to explicitly state the detour bridge would come down when the replacement bridge goes up. She asked what the options were for staging of the project. With regard to staging, Fuller stated that ODOT would not give an option. He said staging the locations would have to be the burden of the contractor. He said it would slightly benefit local contractors because they would have their own yards for materials. He added there would be Page 7 - Joint BCC/Springfield and Eugene City Council Public Hearing - June 18, 2003 WD bc/m/03060/T