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required to go through the City's Type II or Type III Traffic Impact Analysis Review. Traffic Impact Analysis Review is also required for any development that will result in an increase in traffic that will contribute to traffic problems (based on current accident rates, traffic volumes or speeds that warrant action under the City's traffic calming program), or that will result in traffic in areas where the City has documented pedestrian and/or bicycle safety concerns. As discussed under (d), below, the City also requires a Traffic Impact Analysis Review if an engineering analysis (the City's or another engineer's) indicates that approval of the development would result in levels of service would fail to meet adopted level of service standards. Among other things, the Review requires that the development meet the purposes set out at 9.8650, including the provision of facilities necessary to accommodate the traffic impact of the proposed development through the use of traffic control devices and public or private improvements. EC 9.8650; 9.8680. This means that the development must include mitigation measures so that it does not have a "significant impact on a transportation facility." The Review requires that a proposed development must design and construct its traffic improvements to meet the City's standards, including required right-of-way and paving widths according to the street's functional classification system. EC 9.8680; 9.6505; 9.6870. A development that fails to meet this (or any other criterion at EC 9.8650) must be denied. Through this Review process, the City will ensure that a development's impact on any transportation facility will be consistent with the functional classification for that facility. (d) Would reduce the performance standards of the facility below the minimum acceptable level identified in TransPlan. The proposed ordinance will not reduce the performance standards of any facility below the minimum acceptable level identified in TransPlan. Alternatively, to the extent the ordinance arguably could have such an effect, it mitigates that effect as provided in OAR 660-0120060(1)(a). As detailed above, the Willakenzie Area Plan is being amended to add a table limiting the intensity of allows uses on the site. ODOT has assured the City that, with the limitations in the table, development types and intensities permitted under the Willakenzie Area Plan for the site will be deemed compliant with the Transportation Planning Rule. Further, as described above, the City's code requires that traffic impacts of any development proposal under this ordinance that would otherwise have a significant effect on transportation facility must be mitigated as part of the development's approval. The City of Eugene's Traffic Impact Analysis Review process ensures that this ordinance does not run afoul of OAR 660-012-0060. The City Code requires Traffic Impact Analysis Review whenever an engineering analysis (the City's or another engineer's) of a proposed development indicates that approval of the development would result in levels of service that would fail to meet adopted level of service standards. As discussed above, through this Review process, the City will ensure that a development that is proposed under this ordinance will not reduce the performance standards of the facility below the minimum acceptable level identified in TransPlan. Exhibit F. Page 8