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,~ ~~~.. creates a linear lay-out for bus movements and provides for ingress and egress to and from all four surrounding streets. The previous design did not provide for ingress from lath Avenue or egress to Willamette Street. The new design shows new customer service buildings, including the primary customer service center to be located at the corner of Willamette Street and lath Avenue. This is a twa~-story building which will include passenger related services as well as office space for LTD employees. A smaller two-story building will be located along the west side of the McDonald Theater and will include transit employee space as well as some customer service area for uses such as newspaper stands and coffee/food vendors. A third building will be located at the corner of llth Avenue and dive Street and will provide ancillary customer services. This building will serve as a sound barrier to mitigate noise impacts upon the olive Plaza building. This building will have some windows to allow visual access in order for LTD employees to monitor surrounding activity. B, Evaluation section 9,702_~a~: The location, size, design and operating characteristics of the proposed development will be made reasonably compatible with and have minimal impact an the livability or appropriate development of abutting properties and the surrounding neighborhood, with consideration given to harmony, scale, bulk, coverage, and density; to availability of public facilities and utilities including transit related facilities; to traffic generation and the capacity of surrounding streets and alleys; and to other relative impacts of the development, The revision in the plan, for the transit facility involves the same number .of bus spaces and has the surface capabilities of the previous proposal. The new "saw tooth" design for bus space will enable independent movement of each bus and eliminate the need for backing of buses to exit bays. The new circulation plan will also allow ingress and egress from and on to all four surrounding streets, which will allow traffic to be dispersed more evenly on the surrounding streets. Although positive~~-findings were previously made that noise caused by bus traffic would be reasonably compatible with the surrounding area, the modification represents improvement, particularly in that the backing of buses will be eliminated. A previous area of concern was the compatibility of the proposed facility with the existing historic buildings in the area. The applicant has worked with the DRC to achieve building design compatible with the existing buildings. The design adopted for the Page 5 -- Findings of Hearings official ~MD 95-18~ C:1+~p~llfindingslJar~.9blmd-95-18.d~0 t~uS:ccc?