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WEST EU~NE PARKWAY MO~F~EO PROJECT~-CONS~STENCY W;TH TH~ STATEWDE PLANNIN .~__G~ES AND r~NSPORTAT~ON PEANN~NG RUlE refe~ed to as the "Approved Design" alignment. This is the same alignment that was selected in a 1990 Final Environmental Impact Statement. The CiW of Eugene and Lane County, in coordination with the amgen Department ofl[¥ansportation (OD©T) and affected federal and state agencies, now are considering shifting the alignment northward from the ApprOved Design~ primarily to reduce biological impactsfi The new alignment is the Modified Project. Because the rural area affected by the Modified Project has not previously been approved for this Wpe of use, a new goal exception is required to allow this facility at that location. However, the Modified Project would not amend or modify project need~ mode~ and functional classification as ~dentified in the acknowledged Lane County and City of Eugene comprehensive plans~ While this memorandum provides inibrmation and explanation necessary to support goal exceptions~ k is not itself the "exception" required by OAR 660~012~0070. Under ORS 197.732(8), an exception is a comprehensive plan prov~Sion, including an amendment to an acknowledged comprehensive plan. To satisfy applicable TPR requirements, Lane County and/or the Cky of Eugene would need to follow their local comprehensive plan amendment processes and amend their plans to incorporate the goal exceptions discussed herein. Background The West Eugene Parkway has a long history~ As explained in the West Eugene ?arkway Su~v~lemental Needs Analysis (September 1994) ~"~ ~ up~iemenmlNeedsAnalysis'),theconceptofan east~west thoroughfare through West Eugene dates back to at least 1951, when a Franklin Boulevard connector to Highway I26 at Green H~ll Road was contemplamd. Cky of Eugene comprehensive plans adopted ~n 1959 (1959 Development Plan)~ t 972 (i 990 Plan) and 1987 (Eugene~Spfingfield Metropolkan Area Comprehensive Plan) all ~ncluded an east~west l~mked access fac~liBy through the area of West Eugene~ The h~sto~ of these plans and the development of the West Eugene P~kway (WEP) project described in abundant de~l ~n the Su~[emen~a~ Needx Anal ~is an ' Re~ort (June 1997), theSu leto ; ..,;~ ~ ~ Cmthe WEP ~nd ~e Te&nical ~P ental Drqfl Environmental Impact Statement (SDEIS) (August 1997), and the Alternatives Considered~IYEp Technical Memorandum (October 1999) t mr ernat~ves g~emorandum'). That h~sto~ ~s not repeated here, except as relevant to the goal exceptions process. in 1990 a Final Env~ronmen~l Impact Statement w~ released identifying the "Approved D * estgn as the selected alignment akemative for the West Eugene Parkway. As described in the SDZTS beginning at page 2. l~ the Approved Design is an approximately 5.5-m~le extension of the 6th and 7th Avenue Couplet. It ~s a four l~e, limked access hc~l~W wkh shouldem~ke lanes. The western po~iOn of the Approved Design extends wesm, ard from Beltl[ne H~ghway beyond Eugene,s cky l~mits ~d/he Eugeae~Spfingfield Urban Graph Bounda~ (UGB) at Green Hill Road to a point west of the intersection of Highway 126 and Gable Lane near Oak H~ll (see F~gure 1). From Beltl~ne H~ghwa% the a!~gnment crosses Danebo Avenue, then sh~ffs raw,ds the Cen~al Oregon and Pacific railroad tracks, head~ng west to the south of those ~acks to Green Hill Road. From Green Hill Road wes~d to approximately West 1 l/h Avenue, the roadway alignment cam[hues to parallel the railroad s~uth of the tracks. 6 New !~fo~atjon gathered subsequen~ to FEIS issuance in I mental D~ Envzmnmen g nt ~een To Stre.t . ' m~ ~mpact Statement at 1 ~. L u~ T~hn~-, ~ a~ t~e w~!em le~m~s. See S~ /e~ , end ........... ~ Re~ at 80; A~omaEvos Memo~ndum at ~.. E~B~T C~1 - FINDINGS 2