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"Policy 4. Public and private facilities shall be designed and located in a manner that preserves and enhances desirable features of local and neighborhood areas that promotes their sense of identity." "Policy 5. Carefully develop sites that provide visual diversity to the urban area and optimize their visual and personal accessibility to residents." ~. This objective and these policies have been considered and applied in the proposed Downtown Design. Regarding Objective 3 and Policy 4, the convertible nature of Willamette and East Broadway, the unique plaza at Broadway and Willamette, and the use of special paving materials for sidewalks and roadways will maintain a sense of identity and character for the downtown area. with respect to Policy 1, the linkage to the park blacks and the encouragement of a greater variety of commercial and retail uses in the downtown area produced by the Downtown Design will allow for a greater degree of diversity in the downtown area than currently exists. 2. Implementing Policy 3, the Downtown Design Project Summary Report fat page G} notes that the Downtown Design emphasizes the use of street trees along Willamette and East Broadway, "A street tree theme provides overhead foilage that provides definition to the corridor, outdoor cafe and other pedestrian activity areas within the sidewalk spaces." Similarly, along alive Street the Report provides an page S that, "A special street tree landscape theme defines the corridor and provides shaded cover to the street and special pedestrian areas." 3. The West Broadway area of the current mall between Willamette and Charnelton Streets is a desirable feature of the current mall arrangement. Regarding Palicy 4, this area has been preserved and enhanced and its identity has been promoted through a new accent fountain to be located at the entrance to west Broadway that extends into and is visible from Willamette. 4. As suggested by Palicy S, the proposed Downtown Design has been developed in order to provide visual diversity to the downtown area and to increase accessibility to the downtown area to residents of Eugene. Diversity will be increased through construction of an indoorloutdoor activity structure which will house a performance stage, food vendors and public restroams. Visibility will be increased through the introduction of traffic to Willamette Street, East Broadway and alive Streets. Accessibility to the mall will be enhanced through development of the linear pedestrian linkage between East Broadway and the two park blocks located at the intersection of Sth Avenue and Oak Street and the reintroduction of motor vehicle traffic on selected streets. B. Transportation Element objectives and Policies. The most relevant objectives and policies _... ,. ,....., x. .... ~ ~,.,,, ~ . ~ _ ,.__ in the Transportation Element of the Metro Plan are objectives I and 9 and Policies I, 2a, 2f, 2g, 4, ~ and G. These objectives and policies provide that, "Obj~ective_ 1. Maximize the benefits and minimize the direct and indirect negative effects of transportation upon the social, economic and natural environment." "Objective 9. Reflect changes and conditions, community needs, and technologies appropriate for this community when developing transportation alternatives through future studies and updates of existing plans." Exhibit B -Page 3