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ATTACHMENT A This will be considered in the development of the TIGER grant application and the o Pedestrian and Bicycle Master Plan update. TransPlan calls for striping bike lanes on 7th Place. o ? Construct significant crossing improvements at Oak Patch and City View on the Fern Ridge Path such as bicycle underpasses or other appropriate improvements. In recent years, the City has installed pedestrian refuges where the Fern Ridge Path o intersects with Bailey Hill Road, Oak Patch Road, and City View Street. Opportunities to make additional improvements to Fern Ridge Path street crossings o will be considered through the EmX and Metro Waterways projects and the Pedestrian and Bicycle Master Plan update. ? Increase the number of bikes that LTD vehicles. LTD is converting many of their buses from bike racks that carry two bikes to racks o that carry three bikes. Land Use ? Undertake the City of Eugene’s Comprehensive Lands Assessment (ECLA). ECLA is underway and is scheduled to be completed by the end of the year. o ? Complete land redevelopment to multi-story mixed-use along West 11th Avenue multiway boulevard. The follow-up to ECLA may present an opportunity to engage the community in o dialogue about how we want to grow as a city and where we should encourage more density. Encouraging denser mixed use development in the West 11th Ave. corridor can be part of this community conversation. Environment ? Rezone publicly owned and private conservation areas, such as those lands owned by the Nature Conservancy, to a natural resources designation. Through implementing policies in the West Eugene Wetlands Plan and the conditions o of the approval order issued by the Oregon Department of State Lands in 2002, the City rezoned all the parcels owned by the City, BLM, and The Nature Conservancy that were designated as “Protect” in the West Eugene Wetlands Plan to the Natural Resources Zone in 2003. This 2003 rezoning process did not include other parcels owned by these three entities in west Eugene that were not designated as “Protect” under the West Eugene Wetlands Plan. Since 2003, these organizations have purchased additional acreage in west Eugene, and these acres have not been rezoned to the Natural Resources. ? Implement currently-planned Metro Waterways enhancements to Amazon Creek. The draft Environmental Assessment (EA) for the Metro Waterways Study identifies o over $90 million worth of habitat enhancements in 14 different reaches of Amazon Creek. Once the EA is finalized and approved by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Army Corps), the City of Eugene will work with the Army Corps to seek federal funds, which can fund up to 65% of the project cost, to implement the highest priority habitat enhancement projects. In addition, the City will seek non-federal funds to