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