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Bicycle and Pedestrian Connections <br /> Applicable Planning Principles <br /> New streets should be designed to meet the needs of pedestrians and encourage walking <br /> as a transportation mode. <br /> * The local street circulation pattern should provide connections to and from activity <br /> centers such as schools, commercial areas, parks, employment centers, and other major <br /> attractors. <br /> Discussion: - <br /> The Transportation Planning Rule (TPR) requires urban areas and rural communities to adopt <br /> regulations which require: <br /> "Facilities providing safe and convenient pedestrian and bicycle access within and from new <br /> subdivisions, planned developments, shopping centers and industrial parks to nearby residential <br /> areas, transit stops, and neighborhood activity centers, such as schools, parks and shopping. <br /> This shall include: <br /> A. Sidewalks along arterials and collectors in urban areas; <br /> B. Bikeways along arterials and major collectors; <br /> C. Where appropriate, separate bicycle or pedestrian ways to minimize travel <br /> distances within and between the areas and developments listed above." <br /> Current codes for the provision of sidewalks and bikeway connections are sufficient for new <br /> development except for some minor changes in code language outlined below. <br /> * *INSERT PHOTO ** <br /> In December, 1993, the Eugene City Council adopted code amendments to implement the TPR <br /> code requirements affecting bicycle and pedestrian connections. Those code amendments <br /> recognize the Reed to provide connections to existing activity centers from future development <br /> but do not sp cify the need for connections in the opposite direction (i.e. from activity centers to <br /> future develdpment). Those linkages will be necessary for the future development to provide <br /> bicycle and pedestrian connections in the direction of the activity centers. <br /> 2 t <br />