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activity attractive to investors, residents, and businesses. Creation of a "Civic Street" (8th Avenue) to connect the Lane County Administration Building, Eugene City Hall, new federal courthouse, and centrally located Park Blocks, and to encourage retention of important civic functions in a downtown setting. Converting the failed pedestrian plaza along Broadway street into a new "Great Street" section in 2002. Special design standards were adopted. · Parking fees collected to support structured parking. · Employment fees are collected to help fund downtown bus services. The City provides free bus passes to all its employees. · The City provides bike parking in most downtown areas. · The City participated in the joint public/private venture, the award winning mixed-use "Broadway Place," located at the comer of Broadway and Chamelton Streets. · Enlarged and temporally extended the Downtown and Riverfront urban renewal districts to provide additional economic tools to implement the Downtown Plan and support downtown housing. · Community Development Block grants and other funds are used to support downtown housing. · New or expanded Multiple Unit Property Tax Exemption (MUPTE) and Vertical Housing tax exemption financing options to support downtown housing and mixed use development. · Sale of two public properties to encourage high density ownership housing and highly active employment near the transit station. · Conducting the 'Downtown Area Housing Policy Analysis' (DAHPA) to find the proper balance between the City's goals for high density infill in and near the downtown core and its equal desire to protect the special character of our older inner-city neighborhoods. The results will identify opportunities for strategic infill and enhanced livability in the greater downtown area. · Hosted two 'Smart Growth' workshops (with state grant funding) for residents and development interests. The City has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to prepare cohesive, well-supported, multi-objective plans to make Downtown Eugene a more pedestrian friendly, more intensively mixed-use, transit oriented regional center and neighborhood. In the 2003-2005 Biennium, the City applied for two TGM grants to support nodal development in the downtown context: (1) Design and regulatory support for several pedestrian-oriented "Great Streets," one of which will be constructed next year, and (2) A mixed-use redevelopment plan for the extensive EWEB riverfront holdings. Both applications were denied. 38