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I Planning & Development Development City of Eugene 72 Wesi Broadway Eugene, Oregon 97401 • (503) 687.5443 NOTICE DOWNTOWN COMMISSION PUBLIC HEARING CONCEPTUAL DESIGN FOR RE-OPENING OLIVE STREET _ ET EEN 8TH AND 10TH Tuesday, March 31, 1992 7:00 p.m. Bloch Room - Eugene Conference Center Two Eugene Centre Eugene, Oregon fir.. The Eugene City Council has placed a measure on the May 19 primary election ballot con erning the re-opening of Olive Street, between 8th and 10th. The Council ha directed the Downtown Commission to act as a design review body and to rec mmend an Olive Street design for Council approval. On March 1 the Downtown Commission voted to tentatively recommend a concep- tual desig for re-opening Olive Street to traffic. The Downtown Commission will hold public hearing on the design concept on March 31, 1992, at 7:00 p.m. in th Bloch Room of the Eugene Conference Center, Two Eugene Centre, Eugene, Or gon. Following the public hearing, the Commission will make a final reco mendation on a preferred design concept and will forward that recommends ion to the City Council for approval. The City C uncil will use the conceptual design it approves in order to in- form voter about what a re-opened Olive Street might look like. The design concept to tatively approved by the Downtown Commission contains the follow- ing elemen s: * Two 14' lanes-for two way traffic; * Left turn lanes at 8th and 10th Street intersections; * Short term parallel parking bays providing parking for 14-16 vehi- cles; * Strategically located sidewalk areas for pedestrian activities; * Signed bicycle route within 14' traffic lanes; * Approximately 24 street trees; * Alley intersections "bulbed" to shorten pedestrian crossing dis- ~ tances; * Existing fountain removed; * Street-lighting, using 3-globe historic lights similar to those on West Broadway; * Special paving materials at 8th Avenue, 10th Avenue, and Broadway intersections. Limited use of brick accents within sidewalk areas; * Special design features to slow traffic. at the Broadway/Olive in- tersection. These features include: narrowing traffic lanes to 11'; concentration of street trees, light fixtures and other verti- cal elements; and crosswalks banded with brick accents; * Preliminary cost estimate to reconstruct street: approximately $697,000. With reconstructed fountain: approximately $70,000 additions].