Item A: City Council Goal - Downtown Initiative Action Plan

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Policies H.Create a visual directory for downtown to assist visitors and citizens in finding their destinations. 1.Develop a transportation system that supports I.Continue to improve and simplify parking lot the vision of a vital downtown and provides for directory signs, cost information and methods of the safe and efficient movement of automobiles, payment. pedestrians, bicycles, and emergency and transit vehicles. Projects 2.Promote and support alternative modes and accessibility through strategic planning and public Examples of possible projects that address the investment. implementation strategies: 3.Enhance functional designs for streets, sidewalks ¥Create a grade-level pedestrian crossing at the and related public improvements with carefully intersection of 8th Avenue and Mill Street. chosen design elements, including materials, alignments, plantings and streetscape elements. ¥Convert 10th Avenue to a two-way street. Implementation Strategies ¥Conduct a ÒwalkabilityÓ assessment to determine needed pedestrian improvements in downtown. A.Develop specific designs and public improvement ¥Construct a bicycle path along the new 6th plans to convert portions of Willamette, Avenue extension between Franklin Boulevard Broadway, 5th Avenue and 8th Avenue to ÒGreat and Hilyard Street and 6th Avenue and High Streets.Ó Street. B.Implement the policies and strategies of CATS, ¥Provide a prominent entrance to downtown from including two-way street conversions, structured East Broadway near Mill Street. parking, pedestrian and bike system improvements. ¥Construct a new parking garage to support the east side of downtown and the new Courthouse C.Facilitate increased residential and commercial district. densities within the downtown area to support increased transit, pedestrian and bicycle activity in the area. Require new developments to follow transit and pedestrian-oriented development design guidelines. D.Focus continued transportation and streetscape improvements for the entire right-of-way area, from building face to building face, to improve accessibility and reduce reliance on automobile travel. E.Continue to improve existing pedestrian, bicycle and automobile connections to public riverfront areas. F.Consider a fixed rail transit or trolley system within downtown. G.Identify primary ÒgatewayÓ entrances to In a bicycle friendly city, the journey downtown and take necessary steps to enhance can be as pleasant as the destination. the sense of entry, with particular attention to maintaining significant views. EUGENE DOWNTOWN PLAN ¥ APRIL 2004