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"folic AM-4. Provide improved bicycle, pedestrian and handicapped facilities, where appropriate, in connection with street construction and reconstruction projects and intersection improvements." 1. All transportation modes were considered and addressed in the drafting of the proposed Downtown Design. A representative of the Lane Transit District was on the Retail Task Force. The Downtown Design Committee considered bus access to the reopened streets. Design constraints were placed on the width of the streets in order to avoid bus access to the convertible streets of Willamette Street and East Broadway. The design of dive Street would allow for signed bicycle routing on dive between ~3th and 5th Avenues. fin-street bicycle lanes were considered but determined to be not feasible given the desire to retain wide sidewalks and other design constraints. Bicycle access would be allowed on Willamette and East Broadway when such streets are opened. Sidewalks and pedestrian ways have been included in the Downtown Design and in the reconstruction of Willamette, East Broadway and Clive Streets. Provision for bus turnouts, passenger shelters and passenger loading improvements were considered in the proposed Downtown Design but were determined to be unnecessary at this time. The current mall bus transit station is located on 14th Street immediately south of the redeveloped portions of the mall. Appropriate street lighting and landscaping are included in the prposed Downtown Design. ~. Policy AM-4 is satisfied in a variety of ways. Wide sidewalks and a designated bicycle route are called for in the proposed reconstruction of dive Street as part of the Downtown Design. Wide sidewalks and "convertible" streets are proposed as part of the design to provide for pedestrian travel and continued use of the affected portions of Willamette and East Broadway. The restroam facilities which are part of the central plaza area will be accessible to the disabled. Wheelchair ramps will be provided at intersections. V. Conc~~~s~on There is no comprehensive plan policy or objective which directly precludes the reopening of certain streets of the Downtown Mall to motor vehicle traffic ar that prevents implementation of other features of the proposed Downtown Design. Whether the proposed Downtown Design better implements applicable policy than the current mall design is a matter of judgment, ~t is the City Council's determination that implementation of the proposed Downtown Design is in the community's best interest and that such implementation carries out the community's goals far downtown. Exhibit B -Page 11