Item 5: Ordinance Implementing Walnut Station Mixed-Use Center

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The Walnut Station Specific Area Plan adopted in 2010 incorporated some areas that were originally included in the Fairmount/University of Oregon Special Area Study boundaries. With that 2010 adoption, the City Council removed the Walnut Station area from the Fairmount/University of Oregon Special Area Study boundaries. The Walnut Station area removed from the Fairmount/University of Oregon Special Area Study boundaries is that area located on the south side of th East 15 Avenue north to Franklin Boulevard and on the west side of Villard th Street east to the terminus of East 15 Avenue and the eastern boundary of the property owned by ODOT (Map 17-03-33-31, Tax Lot 1500). In adopting the refinement plan and special area zone for the Walnut Station area, the City Council removed from this Fairmount/University of Oregon Special Area Study those policies that were specific to the Walnut Station area. Where those policies still had importance to the Walnut Station area, they were incorporated into the Walnut Station Specific Area Plan and/or implemented through the Eugene Code provisions applicable within the Walnut Station Special Area Zone. The background information and findings contained in the Fairmount/University of Oregon Special Area Study that pertain to the Walnut Station area provide important context and history of the planning process for the neighborhood and, although the Fairmount/University of Oregon Special Area Study area no longer includes the Walnut Station area, some references to the entire original study area remain in this Fairmount/University of Oregon Special Area Study. (b) In May 2005, the City of Eugene, in cooperation with the University of Oregon and the State of Oregon, initiated a planning process for an area along Franklin th Boulevard and East 15 Avenue that had been studied as part of the Fairmount/University of Oregon Special Area Study. The first phase of the Walnut Station project focused on developing a common vision for that study area. The second phase of the Walnut Station project began in October 2006 and focused on development of a mixed use development plan (also known as a specific area plan). The Walnut Station Specific Area Plan was adopted in 2010 and included strategies for the area based on the foundation laid out in the visioning process which included: Redesign of Franklin Boulevard to support the pedestrian and transit- friendly mixed use development concept; Improvements to the pedestrian and bicycle circulation systems; Redesign of side streets to improve operations, parking capacity and appearance of the other streets within the study area; Identification of appropriate development patterns and intensities of development within the area. With the adoption of the Walnut Station Specific Area Plan, the City Council removed from the Fairmount/University of Oregon Special Area Study most of the th area north of East 15 Avenue. The Land Use Diagram (Map 6) reflects the Fairmount/University of Oregon Special Area Study boundaries after the removal Ñ®¼·²¿²½» ó Ð¿¹» î ±º ïé