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WEST EUC~NE PARKWAY ~ODIFIED PROJECT--COHSISTENCY WITH THE STATEWI~ PLANNING GOALS AND TRANSPORTATION PLANNING RULE The process resulting in the recommendation for the Modified Project included study of a range of alternative alignments at locations not requiring goal exceptions. For the reasons stated below and in the ~4hernatives Memorandum, incorporated herein by refemnce~ none of those alternative alignments can reasonably accommodate the proposed use. The alternative alignments not requiring new exceptions are the following. Environmental Protection Agency Alternative Environmental Protection Agency Optimized Alternative Green Hill Road At-Grade Alternative Southern Alternative Southern (Modified) Alternative Approved Design Green Hill Flyover Alternmive These akernatives are illustrated on Figure 1. This first of two Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) alternatives proposes a "no-build" condition from Beltline Highway to the Oak Hill area north of the railroad tracks and west of Gable Lane. Traffic west of the Beltline£WEP interSection would use West 1 lth Avenue and Beltline Highway to access the WEP. This EPA alternative cannot reasonably accommodate the identified need because it cannot operate as a major arterial in a manner consistent with applicable design and safety Standards or achieve state and local transportation objectives. The EPA alternative would result in severe and unacceptable traffic congestion at the three major intersections along West 1 lth Avenue between Bekline Highway and Highway 126. Under this alternative, the West 1 lth Avenue/Green Hill Road imersection would operate at LOS F with a volume to capacity (v/c) ratio of 1.11; the West 1 lth Avenue/Danebe intersection would operate at LOS F with a v/c ratio of 1.84; and the West 11th Avenue/Beltline Highway intersection would operate at LOS F with a 2.40 v/c ratio. See Alternatives Memorandum, Appendix C and SDF~t$ at 5-13. These severe congestion problems cause this alternative to be unsafb and inefficient, and the failure to meet applicable ~ndards would result in registered professional engineers not approving the alternative. Moreover, the EPA Alternative does not support the purposes and needs of the project to improve access to the West Eugene industrial area, relieve congestion on West 1 lth Avenue, or facilitate interregional and intra-regional travel. Environmenta~ Protection Agency Optimized Alternative The EPA Optimized Alternative would follow the same concept as the EPA AlternatiVe, except that the facility would be designed to meet the transportation operational requirements of a parkway. To meet acceptable (LOS D) traffic operating conditions, this would potentially require interchanges at WEP/Beltline Highway, Beltline Highway/West 1 lth Avenue, and West 1 Ith Avenue/Terry Street; frontage roads along much if not all of West 1 lth Avenue; potential connectors between Danebo Avenue and Beltline Highway and between Terry Street and West 1 Ith Avenue; the closure of the Danebe Avenue/West 1 Ith Avenue intersection; and substantial widening (potentially up to eight lanes) along portions of West 11 th Avenue (5'DEIS at 2-20). The EPA Optimized Alternative cannot reasonably accommodate the identified transportation need because it is not geometrically feasible or prudent. Project design engineers have determined that there is not enough room between Terry Street and the proposed WEP~eltline Highway interchange EXHIBIT C-~ - FIN~DI~IGS 36