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Mr. Richardson updated the committee on parking lot 8 & 9 issues. He explained that on Monday, July 14, contractors had scraped gravel out of lot 8 and added logs to keep traffic confined, and create a mowable slope. He said the lot would provide access to the canoe canal. There were also plans for the area to be planted with drought tolerant grass and plants. He said that further negotiations between the City and the University could result in further adjustments. The committee discussed issues regarding lots 8 & 9 and how it would affect parking issues for the park, canoe canal, dog park, University of Oregon baseball stadium, and University football game parking. b. Willamalane Ms. French said the restoration project on 1' /2 acres in the Eastgate Woodlands looked good. The Northwest Youth Corps had volunteered one day to remove re- sprouting blackberries and ivy. Ms. French said Mr. Cooper wanted her to address the reasons for the short timeline the CPC was given for the Springfield Rotary sign project for the Pre's trail upgrade in the Eastgate Woodlands. She explained that Rotarians wanted to help pay for the trail upgrade and to develop signage to show that visitors were in the Springfield side of the park. She said that she asked Willamalane staff and the Rotary group to meet and work with the CPC, but that meeting did not happen very early in the process. She explained there was very little that could have been done to stop the momentum of the project, and added that there was urgency on the part of Rotarians to get the sign up before the Olympic trials. Ms. French said that Willamalane has been approached by ODOT about beginning negotiations for compensation for the impacts to the park due to the I -5 bridge project. She related that major impacts to the Willamalane side of the park were not as substantial as those to the Eugene side of the park. She added that since there would still be some impact, Willamalane intended to ask ODOT to come up with a redesign of the unsafe bike path system under the Willamette Street bridge. Ms. French talked about the pedestrian use of the Riverbank Path. She reported that currently, Joel Miller, Willamalane Park Services manager was working on the project and was very willing to make it a pedestrian only path. She mentioned that he seemed to have a different idea of the project design than she thought the CPC had. She wanted to check in with the committee to make sure she understood what the CPC wanted. Mr. Miller was talking about tearing up the pavement to replace it with a soft surface material — basically a loop extension of the Pre's trail. She did not think tearing up the paved path was what CPC members had in mind. Ms. Mello mentioned that Mr. Miller talked about removing the pavement to put in another type of surface that would discourage bike travel on it. Ms. Mello thought a surface like that would be something the committee should think about. Ms. French said Ms. Behm felt it was important to make the path Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) accessible and a surface that discouraged bicycles would also hinder people in wheelchairs. Ms. May suggested putting in turn styles throughout the path similar to the ones used in Sun River, which wheelchairs could traverse through. MINUTES --- Citizen Planning Subcommittee of the July 17, 2008 Page 4 Whilamut Natural Area of Alton Baker Park