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<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />Memorandum <br /> <br /> <br />Date: September 11, 2009 <br /> <br />To: City of Springfield City Council, City of Eugene City Council, and <br /> Lane County Board of Commissioners <br /> <br />From: Greg Mott, Springfield Planning Manager <br /> Kent Howe, Lane County Planning Director <br /> Lisa Gardner, Eugene Planning Director <br /> <br />Subject: TransPlan Horizon Year <br /> <br />Requested Action: Allow new evidence at the governing bodies’ upcoming joint public hearing on <br />proposed amendments to TransPlan and the Metro Plan. <br /> <br /> Background: In October 2008 the Land Conservation and Development Commission approved a work <br />plan for updating the Eugene-Springfield Transportation System Plan (TransPlan). The approved work <br />plan requires the cities of Eugene and Springfield and Lane County to adjust TransPlan’s planning <br />horizon to be more consistent with the year that the TransPlan Study Area will actually reach the <br />population for which TransPlan is modeled and designed to serve. (The region covered by TransPlan is <br />the “TransPlan Study Area”, which is an area extending beyond the Urban Growth Boundary and the <br />Metro Plan boundary that is used for transportation modeling purposes.) <br /> <br />On April 7, 2009, the three Metro Area Planning Commissions held a joint hearing on proposed <br />amendments to TransPlan and the Metro Plan, including an amendment to TransPlan that extended its <br />planning horizon from 2015 to 2024 to reflect actual growth rates since the plan’s adoption. Following <br />the public hearing, the three Planning Commissions unanimously recommended that the governing <br />bodies adopt the proposed TransPlan and Metro Plan amendments, including the TransPlan planning <br />horizon amendment. At the time that the Planning Commissions acted, the Cities of Eugene and <br />Springfield were pursuing population forecasts based on the Safe Harbor methodology. Accordingly, the <br />Safe Harbor methodology was utilized to project the year that the Transportation Study Area would <br />reach the population that TransPlan was designed to serve. Based on the Safe Harbor methodology that <br />year was approximately 2024. <br /> <br />