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e-mail message related to the redesign of the intersection of West 11th Avenue and Beltline as a <br />portal to the community that was more attractive. The design of the intersection would <br />encourage the use of Beltline. She wanted to pursue improvements to West 11th Avenue as well <br />as they related to her interest in community design and livability. <br /> <br />Mr. Pap~ determined from Mr. Reinhard that staff did not consider the intersection at West 11th <br />Avenue and Beltline to be in failure at this time. <br /> <br />Mr. Pap~ asked how quickly a new project could go through the design to Environmental Impact <br />Statement process. Mr. Pirrie said that it was hard to gauge; the situation could be affected by a <br />natural resource issue, for example. He cited the 1-5/Gateway intersection project as an example <br />of a multi-year project involving environmental considerations and public input, and estimated it <br />was two to five years from inception to project construction. <br /> <br />Mr. Pap~ endorsed approaching the State through the Board of County Commissioners acting as <br />the Area Commission on Transportation (ACT). He thought the use of ACTS in other areas <br />depolicitized the issues involved. <br /> <br />Mayor Torrey asked if interchange improvements at Beltline and West 11th Avenue would impact <br />Danebo Road or Willow Creek Road. Mr. Pirrie said he could only guess given that the <br />parameters of the improvements were not known. <br /> <br />Mayor Torrey asked Mr. Reinhard to determine what the City would have to do to realize the <br />expressway concept from Beltline to Commerce Street, and specifically what the City would have <br />to do with regard to Target's access to West 11th Avenue. <br /> <br />Mayor Torrey asked staff to provide the council with the information he had received regarding <br />the Hampton, Virginia, boulevard approach, which was not generally successful. <br /> <br />Mr. Kelly indicated support for text supporting the portal concept and community livability and <br />design as suggested by Ms. Nathanson. He encouraged staff to bring the individual who <br />presented the boulevard concept at the recent Livable Oregon Conference to the community, <br />who might be able to explain why Hampton failed. <br /> <br />Mr. Kelly suggested that staff develop timelines for the City-oriented tasks that lay ahead. <br /> <br />Responding to Ms. Nathanson's comments regarding sprawl, Mr. Kelly maintained that most land <br />use experts say that the community could sprawl inside the urban growth boundary as well as <br />outside the urban growth boundary. The issue inside the urban growth boundary was the type of <br />development that occurred. <br /> <br />Mr. Kelly requested that, rather than focus on failure of an intersection at peak periods, staff <br />discuss at some point the change in end-to-end trip times under different conditions. <br /> <br />Ms. Bettman clarified that she was not proposing to take any strategies off the table by offering <br />her items. She said there were other strategies she strongly supported that received as many <br />votes as the favored projects. She cited examination of the north-south connectivity from <br />Roosevelt Boulevard to 1st, 5th, and 11th avenues and creating a local grid system providing more <br />southern connectivity as an example. <br /> <br />MINUTES--Eugene City Council July 25, 2001 Page 7 <br /> Work Session <br /> <br /> <br />