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<br />M I N U T E S <br /> <br /> <br />Eugene City Council <br />Public Hearing <br />Council Chamber <br />777 Pearl Street—Eugene, Oregon <br /> <br /> October 19, 2009 <br /> 7:30 p.m. <br /> <br />COUNCILORS PRESENT: Alan Zelenka, Mike Clark, George Brown, George Poling, Chris Pryor, <br />Jennifer Solomon, Betty Taylor. <br /> <br />COUNCILORS ABSENT: Andrea Ortiz. <br /> <br />Her Honor Mayor Kitty Piercy called the meeting of the Eugene City Council to order. <br /> <br />1. PUBLIC HEARING <br />An Ordinance Amending the Eugene-Springfield Metropolitan Area Transportation Plan <br />(TransPlan) to Move Project Nos. 333 and 506 from the Future Roadway Projects List to the <br />Financially Constrained Roadway Projects List, to Update the Project Descriptions for Project <br />Nos. 333 and 506 and to Make Related Amendments to the Eugene-Springfield Metropolitan <br />Area General Plan. <br /> <br />City Manager Jon Ruiz stated that the amendment would move two Oregon Department of Transportation <br />th <br />(ODOT) West 11 Avenue projects from the future projects list to the fiscally constrained list in TransPlan <br />in accordance with a work plan approved by the joint elected officials and the Land Conservation and <br />Development Commission in order to achieve compliance with state planning requirements. The council <br />was scheduled to take action on the amendment at its November 9 meeting. <br /> <br />Mayor Piercy opened the public hearing and reviewed the procedures for providing testimony. She noted <br />that several people had submitted written testimony on the matter. <br /> <br />Pat Johnston, <br />representing the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), read testimony that had been <br />th <br />submitted in writing. She said BLM was concerned about activities related to the widening of West 11 <br />Avenue between Green Hill Road and Terry Street, which had the potential to affect land and water <br />conservation properties in the west Eugene wetlands and impact threatened and endangered species on <br />BLM-administered lands. She said the proposed widening project would cross critical habitat for the <br />Willamette daisy, which was protected under the federal Endangered Species Act. She said BLM could not <br />allow any disturbance on BLM surfaces outside the City right-of-way in critical habitat and there could be <br />issues related to how the road improvements would affect hydrology on the adjacent BLM-administered <br />wetlands. <br /> <br />th <br />Jeff Musgrove <br />, Bryceler Drive, Eugene, stated that his family owned two cemeteries on West 11 Avenue <br />th <br />and he supported the amendment. He said the intersection of West 11 Avenue and Terry Street was <br />substandard and urgently needed the improvements planned in Project No. 333. He said adoption of the <br />th <br />amendment would not impede ongoing planning efforts for portions of West 11 Avenue to the east of the <br />project. <br /> <br /> <br />MINUTES—Eugene City Council October 19, 2009 Page 1 <br /> Public Hearing <br /> <br />