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needs associated with the backing space required. He said opportunities for angled parking would continue to be explored where feasible. He said the master plan for the train station did consider integration of various transportation modes. Mr. Pap6 asked that a multi-modal transportation center be specifically mentioned in CATS. Ms. Bettman remarked that many concerns could be addressed by a trolley which ran from the train station to the bus station on a continuous loop through the downtown area. She asked how staff would handle the council's comments and suggestions for modifications to CATS. Mr. Henry replied that staff would draft recommended changes to the document for the council's review, but was uncertain whether that would require additional time for public input before adoption of CATS. Associate Planner Allen Lowe com- mented that staff could provide an additional staff report addressing comments, questions, and suggestions that could be considered at a subsequent work session. Ms. Bettman stated her support for conversion to two-way operations and said she was pleased to see a study of access management planned for 2004. She asked what impact the Willamette Street conversion, particularly the signal changes at 18th Avenue and Willamette Street, would have on 19th Avenue, which was a residential street. Mr. Henry said staff did not anticipate that some of the fears of the neighborhood for cut-through traffic would be realized, but if it did happen, appropriate traffic-calming solutions would be employed. Ms. Bettman asked that staff respond in a memo that delineated the issue and suggested solutions. Mr. Kelly concurred with Mr. Lowe's suggestions that staff provide a written response to the council's comments which could be considered along with public testimony. He supported the concept of angled parking and said as a frequent cyclist, he had experienced as many problems with parallel parking. He said he also agreed that the greater number of conversions to two-way operation, the better it would be for navigating in downtown and the cost would need to be included in the mix of capital projects. He encouraged the City to consider a ;;Smart Park" program similar to Portland's for downtown. Ms. Taylor encouraged simplified parking instructions on privately owned lots. She said that pedestrian access on south Willamette Street was helped by the stoplight at 25th Avenue. She said a simple and inexpensive remedy for the Saturday Market and Farmers Market was the closure of one lane of Oak Street with removable cones on Saturdays and urged exploration of similar solutions, such as stop signs. She said she was more concerned with safety and slowing traffic than with moving traffic through an area quickly. Ms. Bettman said that moving traffic as fast as possible through areas that had businesses on the street was not necessarily in the best interests of those businesses, but getting traffic through safely was, so slowing traffic in those neighborhoods was a good idea. She said that earlier discussions of transit had made the point that transit language in CATS should not be exclusive and refer specifically to LTD because of the long-term nature of the document. She said there were transit services not available through LTD and new innovations could be available in five or ten years. She encouraged generic transit language as recom- mended by the Planning Commission +3. She highlighted Strategy 7.4 on page 55 which addressed l0th Avenue as a BRT route and said the language suggested that if the CATS was adopted, it was tacit approval for that route. Mr. Henry said the council was only adopting policies, not the implementation strategies. He said the City had pledged to work with LTD to reach a mutually agreeable solution to providing BRT service on l0th Avenue and vehicle access. MINUTES--Eugene City Council December 1, 2003 Page 8 Work Session