LTD W Eugene EmX Ext Project. Amazon Alignment Alternative

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WEEE Project Methodology for Order -of- Magnitude Property Acquisition Cost Estimates Garfield Street to Sam Reynolds Street DRAFT for Discussion 3/6/09 The current (as of 2 -09 -2009) engineered alignments were used for the W. 7 PL, W. 11 Avenue, and Amazon alternatives. The current version (as of 3- 06 -09) of the Amazon (Arthur Approach) alignment was also used. The outer facility of each alignment (back of sidewalk or back of BRT lane) was used to calculate potential ROW acquisitions. This method used the tax lot data Otak received from LTD, dated from January 2009, to calculate ROW acquisitions. This tax lot data contains 2008 real market values as estimated by the Lane County Assessor. A land value per square foot was calculated for each tax lot that had a "take" (land value divided by total square feet). The value per square foot was adjusted for City -owned parcels to maintain consistent values compared to privately owned parcels (typically City parcels are assessed at a lower rate). The method averaged per square foot values for private parcels within a specific zoning class and applied this to the City -owned parcels within the same zoning class. In a few cases, privately owned parcels had no land value in the database, so the same zoning class average value was applied to these parcels. The calculated or assigned dollar value per square foot was multiplied by the square footage taken from each lot and totaled into the "partial acquisition" cost. Many tax lots had a sliver of land taken from the road frontage side. For the Amazon alternatives, the alignment traversed many of the tax lots, splitting them into two parts. In these cases, the methodology assumes the whole portion of the tax lot would be acquired from the BRT cross - section to the southern boundary of the parcel (instead of leaving unusable remnants). For all the alternatives, if any lot had more than 50% of its area taken, then the methodology assumes "full acquisition" of that lot— including the full land value and improvement value in the Assessor data. Potential displacements were identified when the outer line of the alternative (back of sidewalk or back of BRT lane) passed through a structure on the aerial photo. Where a displacement was identified, the entire improvement value of that lot was included in the acquisition costs in addition to whatever ROW was taken from the parcel. There are several cases where displacement identification was very close, but the methodology consistently applied the rule that the transportation facility must be traversing through a segment of the adjacent structure, no matter how small. Conversely, buildings that appear to have the back of sidewalk butting up close to the building wall were not identified as a displacement. The total acquisition value for each alternative is the sum of partial acquisition, full acquisition, and improvement value (for displacements) costs.