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<br />ATTACHMENT F <br /> <br />Public Works <br /> <br />Engineering <br /> <br /> <br />M <br />City of Eugene <br />EMORANDUM <br />858 Pearl Street <br />Eugene, Oregon 97401 <br />(541) 682-5291 <br />(541) 682-5032 FAX <br /> <br /> <br />Date: October 16, 2009 <br /> <br />To: Planning Commission <br /> <br />From: Rob Inerfeld, Transportation Planning Manager <br /> <br />Subject: Follow up on May 5 Public Hearing <br /> <br /> <br />At the May 5, 2009 public hearing regarding moving two ODOT projects from the Future to the <br />Financially Constrained list in TransPlan, a number of questions came up for which staff said we <br />would follow up in a subsequent memo. Answers to the questions are provided below. <br /> <br /> <br />1.City Council minutes and other materials regarding the Council’s desire to move the West <br />th <br />11 project to the Financially Constrained list (or to higher priority status). <br /> <br />The City Council held work sessions on September 25, 2006 and October 9, 2006 to discuss <br />transportation priorities in north and west Eugene. At the second work session, the Council <br />passed motions regarding transportation project priorities to identify the Beltline Corridor from <br />River Road to Coburg Road as the City’s top priority for funding in the Statewide Transportation <br />Improvement Program (STIP), West 11th Avenue from Terry Street to Greenhill Road as its <br />second priority, and a study of the Beltline Corridor from Roosevelt Boulevard to West 11th <br />Avenue as a third priority for funding in the STIP. <br /> <br />On August 13, 2008, the City Council initiated TransPlan and Metro Plan amendments to move <br />two projects from the Future to Financially Constrained projects list in TransPlan: W. 11th <br />Avenue from Greenhill Road to Terry Street, and Beltline Highway from River Road to Delta <br />Highway. Specifically, the City Council passed the following motion: <br /> <br />I move to initiate a TransPlan amendment to delete the West Eugene Parkway from the <br />project list and plan as part of the short-term amendments and to add the two ODOT facility <br />projects into the “Constrained” project list, which are the West 11th Avenue from Terry to <br />Greenhill and the Beltline Highway from River Road to Delta Highway. <br /> <br />The minutes of these three Council work sessions are provided as attachments. <br /> <br /> <br />2.Similarly, minutes and background materials supporting MPC’s decision to move the West <br />th <br />11 project to the Financially Constrained list in the RTP. <br /> <br /> 1 <br />