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Eugene Water & Electric Board (EWEB) Master Planned Development October 2012 Introduction INTRODUCTION Project Description The Eugene Water and Electric Board (EWEB) completed a master plan for approximately 27 acres of property, generally bordered by the Willamette River to the east, High Street to the west, the Union Pacific Railroad to the south, and 4th Avenue to the north. Figure 1 shows the site vicinity. The site formerly housed maintenance, operations, engineering, and administrative staff in the EWEB headquarters building and accessory buildings. In November 2010, EWEB relocated their maintenance, operations, and engineering staff to a new site in West Eugene, retaining only administrative staff at the existing headquarters building. As a result, much of the current site along the west bank of the Willamette River has been vacated, creating the opportunity for redevelopment as a mixed use center node as recommended in TransPlan and adopted city Growth Management Policies. Approximately 15 acres of the site, primarily an impervious utility operations yard today, will be developed in multiple phases. A rezone is proposed to allow development of the site with mixed uses that will be more consistent with surrounding land uses and extend downtown Eugene to the riverfront. The projected timeframe for complete build -out is between 10 and 15 years. At this time, the site development phases are not yet defined. To ensure a reasonably conservative trip generation estimate, full build -out of the Master Plan development scenarios will be evaluated for near -term (10 year) and long -term (20 year) planning horizons. Scope of the Report This report presents a two -part transportation analysis for the EWEB site: ■ A Transportation Planning Rule (TPR) analysis to determine whether the proposed rezone of the site will cause a "significant affect ", and A traffic impact study to examine the proposal and identify transportation infrastructure needs required to support development. J FZA Kittelson & Associates, Inc. 8