CC Minutes - 05/16/01 Work Session

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B. Work Session: TransPlan The council was joined for the item by Traffic Engineer David Reinhard, Planning Director Jan Childs, Senior Planner Tom Schwetz of Lane Council of Governments, Tom Stinchfield of Lane County Public Works, and Ken Hamm of the Lane Transit District. Ms. Childs called attention to and briefly reviewed motions distributed prior to the meeting. She also noted the distribution of a May 14 memorandum summarizing the actions of the Metropolitan Policy Committee (MPC) the previous week. Ms. Childs recommended that the council approve the actions taken by the MPC. Ms. Taylor, seconded by Mr. Kelly, moved to approve the MPC's May 10 recommendations for amendments to the May 1999 draft TransPlan, as outlined in the memorandum from staff dated May 14, 2001. Mr. Kelly reported that the Land Conservation and Development Commission had approved the alternative measures with certain conditions and guidelines. Mr. Kelly referred to page 333 of the meeting packet and asked if staffknew when the evidence requested by the council that the final TransPlan had components which would enable the alternative measure targets to be achieved would be available. He requested a memorandum from staff about how the big changes made by the joint adopting officials affected the model, and what that showed. Ms. Childs indicated that information was forthcoming. Mr. Rayor supported the motion and thanked Mr. Schwetz and LCOG staff for their work. The motion passed unanimously, 8:0. Ms. Taylor, seconded by Mr. Kelly, moved to retain Unit lA of the West Eugene Parkway on the "20-Year Financially Constrained" project list and Unit lB on the "Future" list pending completion of a study of transportation improvements in West Eugene, and add a note in the project description for Units lA and lB that further study is expected to result in amendments to those projects and potentially other projects in TransPlan; delete Unit 2A and 2B from TransPlan; and delete Project 484, Terry Street from Roosevelt Boulevard to West Eugene Parkway, from the "Future" list. Ms. Taylor, seconded by Mr. Farr, moved to separate the motion into two motions, ending the first motion after the first semi-colon. Mr. Kelly did not support the motion to separate, pointing out the staff goal in preparing the motion was to provide consistency with the council's actions on April 23. Ms. Nathanson said that the council had several lengthy and difficult discussions about the topic; she feared that if the council separated the issues, it would feel compelled to have extensive discussions as it had originally. She did not think any single councilor was 100 percent satisfied with the outcome of the vote, but it was the position a majority of councilors supported. MINUTES--Eugene City Council May 16, 2001 Page 5 Work Session