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Proposal: <br />Non-site specific text amendments to the Eugene-Springfield Regional Transportation System <br />Plan (TransPlan) to adjust the planning period from year 2015 to year 2024 to reflect actual growth rates <br />since plan adoption and to remove completed transportation projects from TransPlan’s project lists. <br />Amendments to the Eugene-Springfield Metropolitan Area General Plan (Metro Plan) are also proposed <br />to maintain consistency between TransPlan and the Metro Plan. <br />Lead Staff: <br /> Kurt Yeiter, Senior Planner, City of Eugene, 682-8379 <br /> Greg Mott, Planning Manager, City of Springfield, 726-3774 <br /> Stephanie Schulz, Senior Planner, Lane County, 682-3958 <br />Mr. Yeiter offered the staff report. He directed Commissioners to two documents at their seats, a decoder <br />sheet of acronyms and a memorandum dated April 7, 2009 to the Springfield, Eugene and Lane County <br />Planning Commissions from Kurt Yeiter, Subject: Additional Information for Proposed TransPlan and <br />Metro Plan Amendments. He reviewed the list of acronyms. <br />Mr. Shapiro arrived at 5:40 p.m. <br />Mr. Yeiter said the Commissions would hold a public hearing on the following: <br />Non-site specific text amendments to the Eugene-Springfield Regional Transportation System <br />Plan (TransPlan) to adjust the planning period from year 2015 to year 2024 to project the average <br />growth rate that had occurred since TransPlan’s adoption. <br />Remove completed transportation projects from TransPlan’s project lists. <br />Non-site specific text amendments in the Eugene-Springfield Metropolitan Area General Plan <br />(Metro Plan) needed to maintain consistency between TransPlan and the Metro Plan. <br />Mr. Yeiter said based on the available information and materials in the record and the preliminary <br />findings staff recommended approval of the proposed TransPlan and Metro Plan amendments. <br />Responding to Mr. Siekiel-Zdzienicki, Mr. Yeiter said cities were mandated by HB 3337 to know how the <br />current buildable lands supply compared with the demand by the end of 2009, but there was no timeline <br />for mandating when the urban growth boundary (UGB) would be divided. The Land Conservation and <br />Development Commission (LCDC) work plan called for establishing separate UGBs by 2013. <br />Responding to a question from Mr. Noble, Celia Barry,Lane County Transportation Planning and <br />Traffic Manager, said Lane County needed to demonstrate progress to LCDC annually on the regional <br />transportation plan (RTP). <br />City of Eugene City Attorney Kathryn Brotherton said the West Eugene Parkway (WEP) was different <br />than other projects on the list and was not being removed as a completed project. Because the WEP is not <br />a completed project, the impacts on the transportation system as a whole had to be identified. Rejection <br />of the project by the Eugene City Council and removal from the federal plan triggered TransPlan and <br />Metro Plan amendment processes and full Transportation Plan Rule (TPR) analysis of those impacts. <br />This analysis would occur over several years. <br />Mr. Beyer arrived at 6:00 p.m. <br />Mr. Yeiter stated other than questions from Commissioners were addressed in the April 7, 2009 <br />memorandum. No other questions had been received from the public. <br />MINUTES—Joint Planning Commissions— April 7, 2009 Page 2 <br /> City of Eugene, City of Springfield, Lane County <br />