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<br />Mr. Hledik understood parking standards for peak periods were established by the FAA. <br /> <br />Mr. Smith responded that parking would be driven by demand and determined by the City and the <br />airport. The FAA did not regulate parking. He opined parking would be expanded when there <br />were more passengers and peak periods were reached more than a few times a year. <br /> <br />Mr. Doll added the plan served as a guide related to parking expansion and was not currently in the <br />airport’s five year CIP. Parking would not be expanded until a demand existed. <br /> <br />Mr. Nystrom suggested including qualifying language in the master plan that would serve as a <br />trigger for looking at parking, so that the whole plan would not have to be reopened to address one <br />issue. <br /> <br />Mr. Goldstein observed that people who drove 65 miles from the coast did not want to take a <br />chance that parking would be available when they arrived at the Eugene Airport. He asked how <br />the subjectivity of the issue should be evaluated. <br /> <br />Mr. Doll said the history and patterns of parking had been evaluated as part of the master plan <br />update process. The number of people dropped off curb front by friends and relatives, by taxi <br />cabs, and shuttle busses had been evaluated. There was still a big demand for parking spaces and <br />when the lots filled up, people missed their flights and the next time they traveled, they may fly out <br />of the Portland rather than the Eugene Airport. The Eugene Airport was currently retaining <br />approximately 52 per of its passengers and was making every effort to keep more people from <br />driving to Portland for departures. <br /> <br />Mr. Goldstein was more comfortable with more parking and speculated that the peak was reached <br />two times per year. He noted the cost of asphalt was increasing rapidly and suggested it would be <br />cost effective to pave parking spaces now rather than later. He asked if the projected increase in <br />air cargo would increase truck traffic. <br /> <br />Mr. Doll explained the increase in air cargo was related primarily to Federal Express and United <br />Parcel Service overnight package delivery services and would not increase truck traffic. <br /> <br />Mr. Noble had observed when parking was tight, more people were dropped off, resulting in two <br />trips to the airport rather than one when parking was available. The last parking expansion was <br />done to meet the number of times the overflow lot was used. The parking lot was built to City <br />standards, with tree wells and irrigation, with sensitivity to esthetics and shading of the environ- <br />ment, resulting in costs up to 30 percent higher. As mentioned this evening, the airport served as a <br />gateway to the area, and was one element of how customers were treated. While the motion on the <br />table was a Eugene Planning Commission motion, he would not support removing the parking <br />requirement from the plan, since it was only a plan. The FAA would look at whether the airport <br />identified properties for future uses, which did not mean they would be built immediately, but <br />rather in the future when the demand warranted. <br /> <br /> <br />MINUTES June 1, 2010 Page 8 <br />Joint Public Hearing of the <br />City of Eugene and Lane County Planning Commissions <br /> <br />