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Ms. Taylor recalled the conference on "walkability" at Tsunami Bookstore and asked what happened to <br />the recommendations from that event. Mr. Roth said the report from the event was used as background for <br />the Bicycle and Pedestrian Plan. Mr. Yeiter said the City had unsuccessfully applied for a grant to <br />implement some of the concepts in the report. The corridor discussed by participants at the event was <br />being studied as a pilot project for opportunity siting, and there was a possibility of another grant <br />application to take another look at the area in question. <br />Ms. Taylor thought it was important to give people choices, which made them more likely to do positive <br />things. She thought more efforts should be made to combat bicycle theft. It was hard to feel good about <br />riding one's bicycle if one was worried it would disappear when one left it. She asked if staff had <br />discussed widening the bicycle lanes on streets such as I I th and 18 avenues to avoid conflicts with large <br />vehicles such as buses. Mr. Roth said staff was discussing different bicycle lane treatments to provide <br />extra buffer space. <br />Ms. Taylor asked if anyone was contemplating expansion of the pedestrian flag system started by Ken <br />Saxton. Mr. Roth said the pedestrian flag system was an example of a low -cost tool that was currently in <br />use. He believed its use in Eugene could be expanded. <br />Ms. Taylor suggested if dogs were allowed on buses people would use the bus to take their dog to the vet. <br />Mr. Yeiter said he would forward the suggestion to LTD staff. <br />Mr. Clark agreed with the mayor that the best outcome of the TSP was to provide people with multiple <br />choices and allow them freedom to choose. His concern was that was not what was happening. He said <br />his problem with using VMT as a metric was that it resulted in planning for less capacity in those choices <br />and did not help in emissions reductions. While no one was forced into a different mode, the result was <br />increased congestion. People drove the same number of miles, only more slowly, which increased <br />emissions. He believed VMT was a terrible metric if the desired outcome was decreased greenhouse gas <br />emissions. <br />Continuing, Mr. Clark said he was challenged by discussion of increased infill in areas such as those near <br />the Beltline and Delta Highway because while he thought such infill was a good thing, he pointed out that <br />Beltline was a failed facility in multiple places. To date, there was only one proposed plan for improving <br />Beltline that came close to addressing the standards, and when he asked ODOT staff members how the <br />State could chose any option but that, they suggested that they guessed the State would have to change the <br />standard. <br />Mayor Piercy acknowledged differing points of view held by different councilors and said each councilor <br />would have a different perspective on Mr. Clark's points. <br />B. WORK SESSION: <br />City Council Process Session <br />The council held a work session on its processes for addressing Contingency Funds, for conducting work <br />session polls as part of regular council business, and for providing time for more detailed council <br />committee reports. Council and Intergovernmental Affairs Manager Keli Osborn and Council Coordinator <br />Beth Forrest reviewed the staff recommendations related to each process. <br />Councilors accepted the staff recommendation related to contingency funds. <br />MINUTES— Eugene City Council October 27, 2010 Page 4 <br />Work Session <br />