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development concept. The State of Oregon was a national leader in rethinking that relationship and provided a framework for initiating fundamental change in the way that local governments conduct land use and transportation planning. In 1991 the Oregon Land Conservation and Development Commission adopted the Transportation Planning Rule (TPR) which was intended to provide for a "... carefully planned transportation system designed to reduce reliance on the automobile and increase opportunities for the use of bicycles, transit and walking. " Among other requirements, the rule stated that "... within two years of adoption of this rule, affected cities and counties ,'hall, for urban areas of 25, 000 or more, adopt land use and subdivision ordinances or amendment; required... "by the rule. The City of Eugene was among the first jurisdictions in the state to comply with the TPR through the adoption of the Transportation Rule Implementation Project (TRIP) in 1993. The one-hundred-plus land use and subdivision ordinance changes identified and brought forward in the TRIP adoption process are now fully integrated in the Eugene Land Use Code. The TRIP process showed an energetic and early commitment by the Eugene City Council, Planning Commission, and Planning Division to rethink and revise Eugene's approach to transportation and land use planning. That commitment has strongly influenced the Planning Division's work program and the evolution of the mixed use development program over the past 10 years. TransPlan Update Initiated (1993). The TPR (along with corresponding federal legislation called ISTEA) provided mandates for change that resulted in the initiation of a major update to the Eugene-Springfield Metropolitan Area Transportation Plan, known as TransPlan. The TransPlan Update occurred over an eight year period (1993 - 2001), culminating in the adoption of a new plan with a completely new policy foundation in the fall of 2001. The adoption of these new TransPlan policies are a central feature of the history of nodal development and are discussed in more detail in the "Policy Framework" section that follows this history summary. TransPlan Land Use Measures Task (LUM) Force (1994). The 24 member LUM Task Force, appointed by the Eugene and Springfield City Councils and Lane County Board of Commissioners, met between December 1993 and June 1994 to create, evaluate and refine a set of strategies and accompanying implementation techniques that came to be known as "nodal development". The Task Force was comprised of a cross-section of stakeholders and represented a wide variety of interests within the Eugene-Springfield area. At that time, nodal development, individually referred to as "nodes", was described as follows: "Nodes are mixed use development district; which include a core commercial area and are located within 1500 to 2000feet ora transit stop. Land uses within these areas can be mixed within a building or throughout the area. Mixed use buildings allow for a combination of uses within a single building or development complex. Typically, Nodes are no larger than 200 acres in size although larger nodes are possible in areas in which multiple transit routes intersect or abut the site. Nodes are adaptable to a variety of settings and site conditions, can occur 2