Item 1: Ordinance on Transplan and Metro Plan Amendments

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At the March 8, 2007 Metropolitan Policy Committee (MPC) meeting, a draft proposed Regional Transportation Plan (RTP) project list for ODOT projects was presented for discussion. This document included the proposal to move the West 11th Avenue project from the Illustrative project list to the Financially Constrained project list. The staff presentation at the MPC meeting indicated that removing the West Eugene Parkway freed up $150 million on the financially constrained list over the 20-year horizon of the RTP. The minutes from the March 8 meeting do not indicate that there was any discussion about the West 11th Avenue project. A revised version of the ODOT project list was presented at the April 12, 2007 MPC meeting and the minutes from that meeting also do not indicate any discussion about the West 11th project. Minutes from subsequent meetings through adoption of the 2031 RTP update on November 8, 2007 do not indicate any discussion about the West 11th project. The minutes for the MPC meetings as well as the RTP project lists can be found at this website: http://docs.lcog.org/meetings/mpc.html. th 3.Explanation of the reasoning behind widening West 11 Avenue to, at least, Terry Street. th Why are west 11 Avenue improvements done incrementally? The section of West 11th Avenue from Beltline to Willow Creek/Danebo was reconstructed around 1998. The city managed this project for ODOT and it was constructed with a combination of ODOT and federal funds. This capacity was increased on this section of West 11th to serve Hynix. The section of West 11th Avenue from Willow Creek/Danebo to Terry was reconstructed around 2000. The city managed this project for ODOT and it was constructed with a combination of ODOT funds and IOF lottery funds for economic development and job creation purposes. This capacity was increased on this section of West 11th to develop access to the Greenhill Technology Park. Development has been slow west of Terry Street because sanitary sewer services have not yet been extended to the area. Sewer service is being extended from the north, through the Royal Node area, to serve the planned development potential between Danebo and Green Hill Road. 4.Explain the role of VMT reduction in the adopted TransPlan. Is it a performance measure? Is VMT reduction reviewed on a case-by-case, project-by-project basis? As discussed in TransPlan, Oregon’s Transportation Planning Rule (TPR) requires compliance with certain performance measures by either meeting a vehicle miles traveled (VMT) reduction target or obtaining approval of alternative measures. In May, 2001, the Eugene-Springfield metropolitan area sought, and obtained, the Land Conservation and Development Commission’s approval of an alternative standard to accomplish reduced reliance on the automobile pursuant to OAR 660-012-0035(5). The approved standard consists of six performance measures designed to reduce automobile reliance and increase transportation choices. The six performance measures focus on nodal development, bus rapid transit, transportation demand management and priority bikeway miles. The inclusion of the internal VMT and VMT per capita in 1995 and 2015 on the alternative performance measures chart was to demonstrate that VMT per capital is unlikely to increase more than 5% (such a demonstration is a requirement of OAR 660-012- 0035(5)); these VMT numbers are not, however, a part of the approved alternative performance measures. VMT numbers are also not reviewed on a case-by-case basis. Oregon’s TPR requires local governments and metropolitan planning organizations to evaluate progress toward achieving the approved standards and the adopted benchmarks that correspond 2