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Mayor Torrey reminded the council that the community had directed the City through its vote not to study another alternative. Mayor Torrey asked City Manager Taylor to write a letter to ODOT asking if the agency would participate with Eugene and Lane County in an alternative plan with staff and funding for the area east of the Beltline if the parkway was determined to no longer be a viable project. Mayor Torrey solicited a fourth round of council comments. Speaking to Mr. Papa's comments, Mr. Kelly said there were other %ack of the envelope" alternatives that arose out of the design charette, including the final recommendation made by charette participants that ODOT issue a record of no decision and not build the parkway. He suggested it was not possible to develop viable alternatives in a two-day charette, and the only way the community would come to a resolution for the west Eugene area was to give the area the same level of intense consideration that had gone into the parkway. Ms. Bettman requested a memorandum from legal counsel discussing how the changed project would relate to all the past legal and public processes that had been gone through locally, and if the manager could change the nature of the project through the MOU or if TransPlan must be amended. Ms. Bettman agreed with the mayor that the community missed many opportunities to address safety and operational efficiency issues in west Eugene because it had committed to the parkway. Ms. Bettman recalled that half a parkway was heavily favored at the charette, but the State representatives %hot it down" because they could not guarantee the State could participate in the cost of such a project and because it did not fulfill the State's purpose and need for the parkway. Now the State was proposing a different project that probably would not compare favorably with some of the alternatives previously on the table. The meeting adjourned at 1:25 p.m. Respectfully submitted, Dennis M. Taylor City Manager (Recorded by Kimberly Young) MINUTES--Eugene City Council September 22, 2004 Page 10 Work Session