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WEST E~NE PARA'WAY ~FIED PROJECT--CONSISTEN~ WITH THE STATEWtDE PLAHHING GOALS AND TRANSPORTATION ~NNING RULE to vastly relieve cx~ngestion. Restoring West 1 lth Avenue to a properly functioning local road serves a "local transportation need" to move people within the West Eugene area and to provide access to local destinations. In summary, a transportation need exists for the Modified Project. That need is a regional need to move people and goods within the greater Eugene-Springfield metropolitan region, a storewide need to move people and goods through the region to outside destinations~ such as the Oregon coast and Oregon Cascades, and a local need to move people efficiently within the West Eugene area. A limited access fhcility is warranted to preserve the fUnctiOn of the roadway to facilitate th~se kinds of trips. A four-lane facility is warranted with 2015 vehicle trip estimates ranging from 18,400 to 23,700 average da~ly tr~ps in the potions of the WEP west of Beltline H~ghway and over 34,000 average da~ly trips east of Beltline Highway?~ Without this new fac[lity~ arterial and collector streets in West Eugene become overburdened~ All principal intersections along West 1 Ith Avenue will function at LOS "F' by the year 2015. With the modified project~ Highway t26 can again perform its intended purpose of serving primarily intra~regional and interregional travel, and West 1 lth Avenue can again perform ~ts primary function of serving predominantly local travel needs. To comply with OAR 660-012-0070(4)~ the identified transportation need must be consistent with the requirements of OAR 660-012-0030. The WEP and ~ts Modified Project are consistent with those requirements for the reasons stated below. O~ 660-012-9030(1) requires t~at a TSP identi~ transportation needs relevant to the planning area and the scale of the transportation network being planned, including state~ regional and local transportation needs, the needs of the transportation d~sadvantaged~ and needs ~br movement of goods and services. The J999 Oregon Highway Plan is an element of the State TSP. That plan ~dentifies a statewSde transportation need ~or the WEP. That plan, and ODOT's Oregon Transportation Plan (i992), also address broader storewide needs, including the needs of the transportation disadvantaged and the needs for movement of people and goods, consistent wkh this provision. Neither the TransJ~lan nor the Lane Coun~ Rural Transportation Plan are "transportation system plans" as that term is used in the TPR. Both were adopted befbre the TPR took effect and have not yet been amended to fully comply with the rule. Currently, the Lane Council of Governments (LCOG) is in the process of preparing amendments to the TransPlan to implement the TPR and create a regional TSPfi7 A dra~ plan has been released, with adoption anticipated sometime ~n 2000. Efforts to update Lane County's transportation plan are following a separate track. Under the coordination requirements of the TPR, regional and local transportation plans, including the Trans£lan and the Lane County Rural Transportation Plan, will need to be consistent with the state TSP. Accordingly~ both the Metro Area and County TSPs wilt need to include the WEP. The WEP and ~ts Modified Project also are intended to improve access within the metropolitan region and to developments existing and planned for the West Eugene area~ including the large West Eugene industrial area: Even with the grest Eugene ~edands Plan, hundreds of acres remain available for future ~ndustrial development in the industrial area where, as of 1994, the City had invested over 46 SDE~S, F~gum 3-2. for t~ Eugene,SPdngfie!d m~tmpol~an area~ LCOG ~s preparing ~ TmnsPtan u~ate w~th staff assistan~ from the c~ies of A~hO~, [~ F~era~ H~ghWay Administration, the Federal Trans~ Agent, and other agenc~s~ E~IB1T C-~ - FINDINGS 25