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the property were arbitrary, she would be voting against the alley vacation. <br />Ms. Taylor agreed with everything Ms. Bettman and Mr. Zelenka said, and said she did not even know how it <br />was in the University’s interest, let alone the public interest, for the council to rush the vacation process. <br />Mayor Piercy called for a vote on Mr. Pryor’s motion to adopt Council Bill 4986. The <br />motion passed, 5:3; Bettman, Zelenka and Taylor dissenting. <br />Mr. Pryor, seconded by Ms. Ortiz, moved that the City Council adopt Council Bill 4987, an <br />th <br />ordinance vacating a portion of East 13 Avenue right-of-way. The motion passed, 5:3; <br />Bettman, Zelenka and Taylor dissenting. <br />B. WORK SESSION: <br />Regional Transportation Planning <br /> <br />Public Works Engineering Division staff Rob Inerfeld restated the list of staff recommendations from the <br />agenda item summary regarding a number of regional transportation planning issues that were previously <br />discussed during the Joint Elected Officials (JEO) meeting on July 15, 2008. He said staff was seeking the <br />council’s concurrence on the recommendations. <br />With respect to the fifth Regional Transportation Planning (RTP) item regarding the development of a <br />Eugene-only Transportation System Plan (TSP), Mr. Inerfeld indicated it was his understanding that the <br />public involvement component of any such TSP was very important to the council. <br />Mr. Inerfeld said the plan was for staff to return to council at the September 15 JEO meeting, with a work plan <br />that would then go to the Land Conservation and Development Commission (LCDC) at its October meeting. <br />Mayor Piercy confirmed with Mr. Inerfeld that decisions regarding a TSP work plan would be made at the <br />local level before they would be taken to the JEO meeting in September. <br />Ms. Bettman, seconded by Mr. Zelenka, moved to initiate a TransPlan amendment to delete <br />the West Eugene Parkway (WEP) from the project list and plan as part of the short term <br />amendments, and to add the two Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) facility <br />th <br />projects, West 11 Avenue from Terry Street to Greenhill Road, and the Beltline Highway <br />from River Road to Delta Highway, into the constrained project lists. <br />Ms. Bettman said she had read in her materials that the deletion and additions specified in her motion would <br />require the initiation of a Metro Plan amendment and asked if she would need to add that amendment to her <br />motion. Mr. Inerfeld replied that a TransPlan amendment would be sufficient. <br />Ms. Bettman stated that TransPlan was due to be updated by staff in 2008 rather than 2007 for multiple <br />reasons. She said the decision from ODOT was that TransPlan was not part of the RTP and that it seemed <br />like a convoluted way to appease ODOT. <br />Mr. Inerfeld said ODOT was the entity that had recommended the WEP language to the TransPlan <br />recommendations, and confirmed Ms. Bettman’s earlier statement that the WEP was not a planned <br />transportation facility for the purposes of the Transportation Planning Rule (TPR). <br />Mr. Clark was uncertain that he could support the motion as he was unclear what the impact of it would be. <br />Mr. Clark, referring to the second of the five TransPlan recommendations, asked Mr. Inerfeld if the planning <br />horizon of 2022 was where the TransPlan update would occur. Mr. Inerfeld answered that the planning <br /> <br />MINUTES—Eugene City Council August 13, 2008 Page 8 <br /> Work Session <br /> <br />