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Mayor Piercy said what constituted a real road was a conveyance that met a multi-modal purpose. She felt <br />the community supported a multi -modal transportation system. She echoed the concern that if the work <br />was not done now it would cost more, later. <br />Mr. Zelenka observed that many streets needed to be fixed. He likened taking one project out of the queue <br />to taking one bucket of water out of the ocean. He clarified that the project on the list for Hilyard Street <br />was for the stretch of the street in front of the hospital. He said the area beyond what had already been <br />done was in the queue to be reconstructed in 2011. He liked the idea of taking five to ten percent of STP - <br />U money and putting it into bicycle and pedestrian projects. He reiterated that coordinating the <br />bicycle /pedestrian projects with the road projects would make them cheaper to accomplish. <br />Mr. Clark asked if it was more cost - effective to build -in the bicycle /pedestrian amenities and shorten the <br />length of the project on Martin Luther King Boulevard. Mr. Schoening responded that he did not think <br />that this was how they would proceed. He thought they would augment the funding with local gas tax <br />revenue and defer another project. <br />Mr. Clark ascertained from Mr. Schoening that he did not think the specific direction to back -out the <br />bicycle /pedestrian projects needed to be included in the motion as an amendment. <br />Mr. Poling wanted to be clear that if the City did not receive the full amount of STP -U funding, the first <br />things to come off the list of the projects should be the bicycle /pedestrian amenities. He declared that the <br />people wanted the streets fixed and this should be the primary use of the funding. <br />Mr. Poling, seconded by Ms. Solomon, moved to amend the motion to include that, <br />should the complete funding needed for the list of projects not be allocated to the City, the <br />first things to come off the list should be the bicycle /pedestrian amenities for Martin <br />Luther King Boulevard and Coburg Road. <br />Mr. Zelenka preferred to leave this up to the discretion of the professional staff. He said staff would be <br />making adjustments to the projects and the council should not be micro - managing it. He would leave it up <br />to Mr. Schoening and his professional judgment to make the STP -U funding work within the priorities <br />they had stated. <br />The motion to amend failed, 5:3; Mr. Poling, Ms. Solomon, and Mr. Clark voting in favor. <br />The main motion passed unanimously, 8:0. <br />B. WORK SESSION; <br />Safe and Efficient Streets through Access Management <br />Peggy Keppler, Development Review Manager for the Engineering Division of the Public works <br />Department, recalled that three years earlier the City Council had asked staff to initiate some regulatory <br />changes to the land use code that would allow them to implement access management on the arterial and <br />collector streets. She said after the council meeting in 2006, staff had done research and looked at <br />different access management codes and policies across the nation. They had put together a list of <br />strategies they felt were appropriate for the Eugene area. She related that they took that list to a <br />department advisory committee. She said there were two primary strategies: a reduction in the number of <br />conflict points on arterial and collector streets and to ensure the access points were spaced far enough <br />apart that it did not interfere with traffic flow. She explained that the Planning Commission had reviewed <br />MINUTES Eugene City Council February 8, 2010 Page 5 <br />Work Session <br />