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8. Local streets identified as future transit routes should be designed to safely and efficiently accommodate transit vehicles, thus encouraging the use of public transit as a transportation mode. 9. Local streets should be designed to meet the needs of pedestrians and cyclists, thus encouraging walking and bicycling as transportation modes. 10. Local street design should be responsive to topography and should avoid or minimize impacts to natural features, water-related resources, and wildlife corridors. 11. The pavement area of local streets should be minimized, consistent with efforts to reduce street construction and maintenance costs, stormwater runoff, and environmental impacts of street construction. Narrower streets also distinguish local residential streets from collector and arterial streets and enhance neighborhood character. 12. Where appropriate, the local street system and its infrastructure should be utilized as an opportunity to convey and treat stormwater runoff. 13. Large scale, high-canopy street trees should be planted on local streets to create attractive and healthy neighborhood environments. Damage to street trees resulting from utility line placement and repair, and from new home construction, should be minimized. 14. The range of local street types should be broad enough to allow flexibility for residential developers, resulting in lower site development and street construction costs and discouraging the construction of private streets. 15. Local street layout should permit and encourage efficient lot layout and attainment of planned densities. 16. Local streets should be designed to efficiently and safely accommodate emergency fire and medical service vehicles. Sources consulted in development of these principles include Residential Streets, published in 1991 by the American Society of Civil Engineers, National Association of Homebuilders, and the Urban Land Institute; Performance Streets: A Report on Supplemental Street Standards for Residential Neighbor- hoods in Houston prepared in 1994 by Peter H. Brown Civic Design; Performance Streets: A Concept and Model Standards for Residential Streets, prepared by the Bucks County, Pennsylvania Planning Commission (1980); and the City of Boulder, Colorado Residential Access Program materials (1994). 6 EUGENE lOCAL STREET PI. Al4 ~ :