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v.1..l.~ , 9 -cri-Z,~ fH~ NO. ~ . ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER of the Traffic Engineer of the City of Eugene WASHINGTON STREET - INSTAllATION OF BIKE lANE The Traffic Engineer of the City of Eugene finds that: 1. The Eugene Code, Section 5.040 provides that the City Manager (or designee) shall exercise specific traffic duties by administrative action, including: the implementation of ordinances, resolutions, and motions of the council and his or her own orders by installing traffic control device~; and establishing, maintaining, removing or altering all traffic contr~1 areas and traffic control devices; . 2. The administrative action taken to provide for a bike lane on Washington Street, and the resulting removal of on-street parking and other necessary changes to traffic controls, is based on consideration of, and compliance with, the criteria set forth in Eugene Code, Section 5.055; 3. The Eugene Bikeways Masterplan designates that Washington Street north of 13th Avenue shall have an on-street bike lane; 4. The project is consistent with the City Council's transportation goal of promoting alternative modes of transportation, and other adopted state and local plans and laws; 5. The City Council appointed a special subcommittee (Council Subcommittee on 1994 Bikeways Projects) in June of 1994, to specifically examine mitigation of the effects of parking removal in the Westside Neighborhood. The City Council subsequently approved a set of recommendations for Washington Street based on the subcommittee's final report, which shall be implemented concurrently with the bike lane; o. The proposed street design requires on-!?ueet parking be prOhibited along the east side of Washington Street between 13th Avenue and 8th Avenue. Two new parking stalls will be installed on the west side of Washington Street between 11 th Avenue and 1 Dth Avenue, where parking is currently prohibited. Similarly, on the north side of 10th Avenue between Washington Street and Lawrence Street, two new parking stalls will be installed where parking is currently prohibited; 7. Providing a separate bicycle facility in this corridor will provide safer conditions for bicycle travel and other travel modes on Washington Street. The final design is in conformance with traffic engineering standards; and 8. The City provided a notice to owners\occupants of the proposed bike lane project in May of 1994, and received a number of written and verbal comments from the affected parties, primarily opposed to the loss of on-street parking. These concerns were responded to directly by staff and/or through the work of the council subcommittee.