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<br /> <br /> <br />APPENDIX 1 20-minute Neighborhoods Toolkit <br /> <br /> <br />Background: <br />Below is the toolkit for Eugene’s 20-minute neighborhoods assessment. It provides a list of <br />tools that the City could use to increase the number and distribution of 20-minute <br />neighborhood qualities in different parts of town. This is not a comprehensive list of all the <br />possible tools available to the City or other local partners. Many of these tools have been used <br />before in other City planning and development activities or are currently being studied. For <br />example, some actions overlap and complement implementation strategies currently being <br />studied through the Envision Eugene project. A substantial effort to apply these tools will be <br />essential to achieving the community’s vision for the future. <br /> <br />Priority Recommendations: <br />Below is a short list of priority recommendations based on input from City staff and the public <br />during the creation of the 20-minute neighborhoods assessment. <br /> <br />Develop a comprehensive bicycle and pedestrian data collection program <br />High quality bicycle and pedestrian use data could help City planners better understand where <br />actual use occurs and where infrastructure improvements could be most effective. <br /> <br />Bike and pedestrian data is currently collected once each year in Eugene using staff and <br />volunteers. Over time, the data collected provides an estimate of how bicycle and pedestrian <br />use changes across Eugene but does not help planners understand when and where bike and <br />pedestrian traffic occurs. The data collection program could be strengthened by incorporating <br />pedestrian and bicycle counters or sensors into new and rehabilitated infrastructure and by <br />coordinating count efforts with other local agencies and institutions. <br /> <br />Increase funding for creating complete streets <br />There are currently few dollars available to fund multimodal improvements at the same time <br />roadway system improvements are being made. Road reconstruction projects are being <br />conducted today using bond funds and in some cases limited funding means that opportunities <br />are being missed to add bike and pedestrian facilities as these reconstruction projects are <br />conducted. <br /> <br /> <br />Create a plan for local sidewalks <br />The draft Eugene Pedestrian and Bicycle Master Plan identifies projects that will fill in most <br />gaps in the sidewalk network on arterial and collector streets and at the policy level the plan <br />calls for a complete network of sidewalks on all streets throughout the city. In some cases, <br />infilling local sidewalk segments in order to create 20-minute neighborhoods may be a higher <br />Page | 8 <br /> <br />