Meetings

Land Use and Transportation Technical Team
Thursday, August 16, 2007
3:00 pm–5:00 pm
Goodwill Industries of Lane and South Coast Counties, Boardroom
855 Seneca Road, Building #1, Eugene

• Agenda
• Notes from July 31 meeting
• Outline for Background Report, Draft #1

Members

Resources

STPP Webinars

The Surface Transportation Policy Partnership (STPP) and the Center for Neighborhood Technology (CNT) announce new sessions to offer more in depth education and training on topics you identified at STPP’s 2006 workshops. We will host two webinars this fall and two workshops in spring 2008 focusing on four areas.

Our goal is to help advocacy organizations, local officials, neighborhood groups, and transportation and land-use professionals learn how to turn our communities into more livable places where people want to live, work and play.

Webinars:

• September 25, 2007, 12-2pm EST: “Understanding the Transportation Models and Asking the Right Questions”

• November 9, 2007, 12-2pm EST: “Planning Transit Routes that Meet Your Community’s Goals”

Larry: Pulse Nodes

On August 8, 2007 at 11:59 am, Larry Reed wrote: “The attached article is for the Land Use and Transportation Task Force; however, I thought the whole group would find it interesting. Transportation planning is not done in a vacuum. We have an existing west Eugene area with all its land uses, structures, road system—serving both through and local traffic, open space, etc. (some good-some bad). As part of solving or within the context this areas transportation issues discussions. I believe, as a community, we must have a (New) vision of what we want for west Eugene. Then develop a plan for accomplishing our vision. The attached article is one vision for this area; there are others. I think it’s a good one; however, (Effort of full disclosure) I’m in the business of designing them.”

Rob Z: Building Better Communities

On August 3, 2007 at 1:37 pm, Rob Zako wrote: “Last fall, I attended an all-day ‘Building Better Communities’ conference in Bend, in part as a member of the Transportation and Growth Management Advisory Committee and in part as the transportation advocate for 1000 Friends of Oregon. It was a great event, with a couple hundred people in attendance, most of which were from the development community: The Realtors were key co-sponsors of the event. Of course, Bend is growing so explosively fast, that regardless of political leanings people recognize the critical need to plan for the future. As you can read in the announcement, there was a great and diverse line up of speakers. Ever since that event, I have been wanting to see similar events occur elsewhere around the state. I am feeling like the time is ripe to try to organize such an event here in Eugene, ideally this fall.”

Ed: Plans and Such

On August 1, 2007 at 8:21 am, Ed Moore wrote: “Sorry I couldn’t be at the meeting yesterday. I had to be up in Salem yesterday for another meeting. Using the link below, you can go to the ODOT FTP site and download a number of documents that I have assembled that relate to West Eugene. You can choose to download the entire document or just a partial that I put together that only has the material related to West Eugene. Some of the files are large, especially the County TSP and if you do not have broadband internet may be impractical for you to download.”

• 1996 Local Street Plan Partial
• 1998 Growth Mgmt Policies Part
• 1999 Arterial and Collector Street Plan Partial
• 2000LandUseMaps
• 2002 Transplan Bus Rapid Transit System
• 2002 Transplan Financially Constrained Bikeway System
• 2002 Transplan Financially Constrained Roadway Projects
• 2002 Transplan Functional Class of Roads<
• 2002 Transplan Future Bikeway Projects
• 2002 Transplan Future Roadway Projects
• 2002 Transplan Nodal Development Areas Map
• 2002 Transplan Proposed TDM Map
• 2003 Royal Avenue Specific Plan Partial
• 2004 MetroPlan Map
• 2004 MetroPlan Partial
• 2004 TSP adopted Lane County Partial
• 2004 TSP adopted Lane County
• 2004 WEP Supplimental Needs Analysis
• 2050 Coordinated Pop Comparison
• 2050 StrategyTechReport1-4 FigureIV-1
• City Gen Population Profile
• City Population Summary
• CodeChapter10 TOC Apr26 05
• Fig V-1 Regional 2050 Growth Concept
• Fig V-4 Eugene 2050 Growth Concept
• Fig V-11 Veneta 2050 Growth Concept
• Fig V-12 Oregon 2050 Conservation Strategy
• HistoricalPopulation 05
• Lane County Comp Plan Policies Partial
• LaneCountyCoordinatedPopulationProjectionsAAGRs
• LaneCountyCoordinatedPopulationProjectionsLCForecast
• LCZones
• Local Gov Planning Coord Pop Chapter 195
• Metro Func Class Map
• MetroPlan Map
• SWVRGMStrategy0806 Coordinated Population
• TransPlan Maps

Damascus/Boring Concept Plan

In December 2002, Metro expanded the Urban Growth Boundary (UGB), including 12,200 acres in the Damascus/Boring area east of Happy Valley and south of Gresham. The next step was for local governments to create plans to guide the transition of this area from rural to urban uses. The Damascus/Boring Concept Plan provides that guidance by identifying general patterns of future urban development that meet federal, state and regional requirements as well as community aspirations.

The Concept Plan includes recommendations for the planning of:

• Residential areas that meet minimum density requirements and can accommodate a diverse and affordable variety of housing types
• Commercial, industrial and mixed use areas
• A multi-modal transportation system with streets, transit, bicycle and pedestrian facilities
• Natural resource protection
• Water, sanitary sewerage, storm drainage, schools, parks, and police and fire protection

The Concept Plan includes maps and strategies that show how the elements fit together into a complete and livable community.

To learn more about the Damascus/Boring Concept Plan, visit the website, or browse the following resources:

• Executive Summary
• Final Report
• Implementation Strategies and Action Measures
• Land Use Existing Conditions Memo
• Natural Resources Existing Conditions Memo
• Public Facilities Existing Conditions Memo
• Transportation Existing Conditions Memo - Summary
• Transportation Existing Conditions Memo

LUTRAQ

Making the Land Use, Transportation and Air Quality Connection (LUTRAQ)

What started as a local effort to consider alternatives to a highway grew into a project of national reputation. The LUTRAQ story has been referred to in metropolitan planning efforts across the country, and people associated with the project have made dozens of presentations nationwide. In 1996, LUTRAQ received national awards for transportation planning from the American Planning Association and the United States Environmental Protection Agency.

Though the national recognition is a great honor, it is not the greatest source of satisfaction to the organizations that supported LUTRAQ. For 1000 Friends of Oregon and Sensible Transportation Options for People, the true measure of LUTRAQ’s success is that it helped change the way transportation and land use will develop in a part of the Portland metropolitan area. It also demonstrated that citizens’ efforts can generate ideas and analyses that change the way their regions will grow.

To learn more about the LUTRAQ Project, read Making the Connections: A Summary of the LUTRAQ Project, or browse the following resources:

• LUTRAQ in a Nutshell
• LUTRAQ Reports
• Related Efforts & Products
• Major Funding for the LUTRAQ Project

News Stories

Back effort to repair Oregon bridges (Commentary by State. Rep. Terry Beyer, Register-Guard, 8/14/07)

City eyes gas tax to pump funds into roads (Register-Guard, 8/14/07)

Port plan would change Coos Bay (Medford Mail Tribune, 8/12/07)

Bus runs both ways (Editorial, Register-Guard, 8/9/07)

LTD may add Florence to ticket (Register-Guard, 8/8/07)

Governor signs climate change legislation (Portland Business Journal, 8/7/07)

Kulongoski looks to 2009 to push for Oregon roads (Associated Press, 8/6/07)

Lane County examines Coos Bay port proposal (Register-Guard, 8/2/07)

Fast-growing Veneta considers blazing new trails (Register-Guard, 7/9/07)