Agenda Packet 9-19-18 Work Session

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September 19, 2018, Work Session – Item 1 EUGENE CITY COUNCIL AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY Work Session: MovingAhead Project Update Meeting Date: September 19, 2018 Agenda Item Number: 1 Department: Public Works, Planning and Development Staff Contact: Chris Henry www.eugene-or.gov Contact Telephone Number: 541-682-8472 ISSUE STATEMENT The City of Eugene and Lane Transit District, with the help of other regional partners, are collaborating on the MovingAhead project to determine how best to invest on our main corridors that connect our neighborhoods, shopping areas, and places of employment. Building on years of long-range planning in our community, MovingAhead is an implementation effort that will result in prioritized investments in transit, walking and biking projects in each of five corridors that are identified in Envision Eugene, LTD’s Long-Range Transit Plan, and the Eugene 2035 Transportation System Plan. In 2018, the MovingAhead project team has finalized the technical analysis and is now moving into a phase of extensive public engagement throughout the summer and into fall 2018. The team will gather feedback on the analysis and potential corridor investments. Following that outreach, the formal decision-making process by the Eugene City Council and LTD Board of Directors is planned for spring 2019. At that time, the City Council and LTD Board will be asked to select a preferred package of investments for people walking, biking, using mobility devices, and using transit. This noon work session is an opportunity for the Eugene City Council to learn about the process, provide feedback, and ask questions coinciding with the release and public comment on the project’s technical analysis, the Alternatives Analysis report (released on September 10 for a 30-day public comment period). The LTD Board of Directors will hold a separate work session at 4:00 pm, also on September 19. BACKGROUND In 2015, the MovingAhead project kicked off with public workshops held along the corridors under consideration. At each workshop, local residents were asked to design their ideal street to accommodate people walking, biking, using mobility devices, driving and using transit. After gathering that public input, the project team developed conceptual designs on which the formal technical analysis was conducted. These conceptual designs include Enhanced Corridor and EmX alternatives as well as a No-build alternative. Comprehensive bus rapid transit—known as EmX locally—is a recognizable transit service in our community. A No-build alternative assumes maintaining the current service on a street. On a continuum of transit service investments, the Enhanced Corridor alternatives fall between the