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housing yield. He stated the recommendation forwarded to the elected officials is that they have two functional floors along Garden Way and the stores facing Marche Chase and Garden Way have their entrances on them. He noted that was not what the developers wanted. He said there is a demand for commercial services in the area so they allowed for the shopping center to be as large as proposed with a cap on the size of the grocery story and having some of the buildings mandated where they are oriented so there is the pedestrian space. Yeiter said with regard to the vehicle miles traveled and the TransPlan modeling, the TransPlan model was not created to be so specific that the square footage would have affected it. He noted there was a request from the state that the city create some monitoring process to track how well the nodal strategies are working for vehicle miles traveled for reduction. He noted the city engineers are satisfied with the streets and the improvements and how the pedestrian movements would happen within the area. He stated they didn't have the data to show how this plan might be different. Kelly stated he would support the plan as written as a compromise to get them to a real nodal project. He said unless they had a fair amount of density of jobs, they won't hit the targets and use the land efficiently and the whole plan falls apart. He asked to explain how the node would make progress to the targets, both as proposed and as the developer is asking for further changes. He asked what the program was that described some sort of maximum square footage for the future. He wanted answers at the next work session Pape stated that every node would have its own character and this was a suburban node. He was interested in any type of samples that staff could come up with for a work session on how two-story retail works in more suburban type locations versus out of town locations. He added not only do they need the housing density, but also they need the jobs With regard to the Work Session on October 28, Torrey asked how the Harlow Neighborhood request would happen with regard to the ATM banking access question. He asked about the ineffective down zoning of the property east of Garden Way. It was his understanding that a down zone could create a taking and they might be liable for value lost. He wanted someone to do an analysis of that with a report back. Bettman asked about TransPlan and what assumptions went into the modeling that showed nodal development reduces vehicle miles traveled and creates a more efficient transportation pattern. She asked what the node specific assumptions were. She thinks they are using TransPlan to justify all of the investments they are making in the planning and Page 7 - Joint BCC/City of Eugene Public Hearing; 7:00 p.m., September 18, 2002 WD bc/m/02124FF