Item 1: Ordinance on Downtown and Mixed Use Development

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Exhibit E (1)Identifying capacity deficiencies on the roadway system. (2)Evaluating the impacts on roadways of amendments to transportation plans, acknowledged comprehensive plans and land-use regulations, pursuant to the TPR (OAR 660-012-0060). (3)Evaluating development applications for consistency with the land-use regulations of the applicable local government jurisdiction. b.Acceptable and reliable performance is defined by the following levels of service under peak hour traffic conditions: LOS E within Eugene’s Central Area Transportation Study (CATS) area, and LOS D elsewhere. c.Performance standards from the OHP shall be applied on state facilities in the Eugene-Springfield metropolitan area. In some cases, the level of service on a facility may be substandard. The local government jurisdiction may find that transportation system improvements to bring performance up to standard within the planning horizon may not be feasible, and safety will not be compromised, and broader community goals would be better served by allowing a substandard level of service. The limitation on the feasibility of a transportation system improvement may arise from severe constraints, including but not limited to environmental conditions, lack of public agency financial resources, or land use constraint factors. It is not the intent of TSI Roadway Policy #2: Motor Vehicle Level of Service to require deferral of development in such cases. The intent is to defer motor vehicle capacity increasing transportation system improvements until existing constraints can be overcome or develop an alternative mix of strategies (such as: land use measures, TDM, short- term safety improvements) to address the problem. Concurrent with the land use code amendment to eliminate the requirement for a traffic impact analysis within the downtown is an amendment to this Metro Plan and identical TransPlan policy to reduce the acceptable performance standard (from Level of Service E to F) for the corresponding area. As amended, the amendments are consistent with this policy. F.17 Manage the roadway system to preserve safety and operational efficiency by adopting regulations to manage access to roadways and applying these regulations to decisions related to approving new or modified access to the roadway system. Consistent with this policy, the City of Eugene adopted access management standards in 2010 that regulate the location of new and modified accesses to streets. These amendments do not modify or change the applicability of these standards. Finance F.36 Require that new development pay for its capacity impact on the transportation system. Consistent with this policy, developments will continue to be subject to transportation system Findings - 9