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WES'T EU~NE PARKWAY ~FIED PROJECT~NSIS~NCY WiTH THE STATEW~DE PLANNING GOALS AND T~NS~TATEAN PLANNING R1JLE $12,000,000 in infrastructure? The West Eugene Parkway with its Modified Project alignment wi~t facilitate the movement of ~ple and goods to and from the West Eugene industrial area~ Moreover, the WEP will improve the ability of West 1 lth Avenue to serve local access needs of area businesses. Further, the WEP will also help serve the needs of the transportation disadvantaged by facilitating effcient regional transit service along route 93 serving county residents and regional recreational destination access to the Veneta and Fern Ridge Reservoir areas.49 OAR 660-0124~030(2) requires that counties or Metropolitan Planning Organizations preparing regional TSPs rely on the analysis of state transportation needs in adopted elements of the state TSP, and that local governments preparing local TSPs rely on the analyses of state and regional transportation needs in adopted elements of the state TSP and adopted regional TSPs. LCOG, in coordination with I~ne County and the cities of Eugene and Springfield, has developed in£orrnation for a regional TSP and prepared a draft transportation system plan. In so doing, LCOG is relying on analysis of state transportation needs in adopted elements of the state TSP. The 1999 Oregon Highway Plan is an adopted element of ODOT's state TSP. The 1999 Oregon Highway Plan designates Highway 126 from Florence to the Oregon Cascades as a Statewide Highway. The identified transportation need for the WEP with its Modified Project alignment is oonsistent with ODOT's designation of Highway 126 as a Statewide Highway because the principal purpose ora Statewide Highway is to serve interurban and interregional trave~ needs. Accordingly, this requirement is met. OAR 660,012-0030(3) requires that local and regional transportation need deteminations within urban gro,~,l~h boundaries be based on 20-year population and employment forecasts and distributions which are consistent with acknowledged comprehensive plans and Goal 14 urbanization policies. The population and emplos~nent projections t:br the Eugene-Springfield metropolitan area are consistent with the acknowledged Metro ?inn and ~'EI~?, which identify West Eugene for predominantly industrial and resource protection use in the immediate vicinity of the Modified Project.50 Those projections support the conclusion that traffic conditions at all major intersections along West 1 Ith Avenue by the year 2015 will be at LOS "F' without the WEP..~hernatives Memorandum, Appendix B. Si~ifieant investment in infrastructure already has taken place in West Eugene, including over $12 mill~on by the City to support industrial development plus private expenditures. Serviced areas include the Green Hill Technology Park north of West I I th Avenue and west of Terry Street. During the past two years, over half the streets and sewers have been constructed to serve this approximately 133-acre industrial park. In 1998 and 1999~ Rosen Products completed their first phase of development and by September, t999, employed over 200 workersfi~ Through this provision of infrastructure and commencement of development, urbanizable lands have been converted to urban lands. ~ile there remains substantial vacant acreage for future industrial development, the presence of urban facilities in this area means that the area can accommodate industrial development now or in the very near future. This is consistent with Goal 14's requirement to encourage urban development on urban lands prior to conversion of urbanizable lands. As described in more detail below, the Lane Council of Governments currently is developing a regional Transportation System Plan as required by the TPR. ~his plan, the TransP~'an Update~ has not yet been adopted. However, the plan considers need taking into account numerous measures to 48 Supplemental IVood$ Analysis at 30. ' 40 Land Uae rachn~ Report at 103. 50 The Draft Revised TransP]an (May ~ 999) )den,(ties year ~995 population and employment at 224~00 and mspe~e(y; Projected 20~ 5 Population and employment forecasts are 30~,400 and ~ 53~000 respecth~ely. 51 Correspondence from Dave Reinhard, C~ty of Eugene Planning and Development Department, dated September 20, ~ 999.