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up, the entire commercial was on one side of a street. He said they investigated creating new local streets through the Wylie property and concluded there were not enough residents in the immediate area to support grocery or retail services. He added being visible from Garden Way and Centennial was necessary. Dwyer said his vision of a node is a place where people could live and work without an automobile. He didn't want a node to be another name for a shopping development. He said the key was mixed use. He stated that part of the I-5 Beltline plan will be a bicycle pedestrian crossing that will go to Postal Way. He said if they are going to prevent sprawl, then they have to encourage upward development and not just put up facades. Bettman said the whole intention of nodal development was to decrease vehicle miles traveled and to increase the efficiency of accommodating population growth that is projected to double in the Willamette Valley over the next 50 years. She didn't understand why they were letting the developers write the standards for the node. She asked why they increased the intensity, and deducted amenities in an auto oriented development in response to this particular developer's demand. She said if they would just create what they need for nodal development in an overlay zone and apply it, then as pressure to develop increases over the years, it would be redeveloped according to those standards. She noted that TransPlan did modeling based on nodal development. She said they examined how nodal development would result in decreased trip length and decreased vehicles miles traveled both within the node and outside the node and how the node was affected by the larger transportation system. She wanted to see a comparison where the code amendments and the metro plan amendments diverge from that threshold. She said if they are going to modify nodal development to this extent, they would achieve the objectives of TransPlan. She stated an analysis and comparison is needed to be made on what the suggested code amendments are required. Taylor said it sounded like they were in the development business and the purpose was to develop the land as quickly as possible instead of providing for the creation of a node. She asked why they would need so much commercial building if it were part of a node. Yeiter said what became apparent when they involved the neighborhood was that there was frustration from area residents that there were not full retail services to serve the area. He said the area is segregated and the residents were tired of driving to other shopping centers to get more services. He said the acreage for all commercial services is kept the same as planned within the Willakenzie area plan. He noted one of their goals was that the residential development potential did not drop and that they were not losing Page 6 - Joint BCC/City of Eugene Public Hearing; 7:00 p.m., September 18, 2002 WD bc/m/02124/T