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New Capital Facilities and Capacity Enhancements As the community's population base expands, the need to provide safe and efficient capital facilities increases. New streets are necessary to provide access and the delivery of goods and services to developing areas. In addition, wastewater and stormwater systems are necessary for the health, welfare and safety of the community. The increased need for additional capacity is reflected not only in the City's wastewater, stormwater and road systems but in other areas as well, such as facilities for parks, recreational services and emergency services. Project Priorities Potential projects to address new capital needs or expand and enhance existing capital assets are derived from a number of sources. These include: • Functional plans, such as transportation, airport, parks, or wastewater and stormwater system plans and studies; • Neighborhood and other refinement plans; • Requests from individual citizens, neighborhood associations, and community organizations; • Requests from other governmental units, such as school districts, federal and state agencies; • City departments; and • City committees and commissions. Given the wide variety of specialized funding sources and the framework of adopted plans and policies, selection of projects for the CIP does not follow aone-size-fits-all priority setting process. Instead, within each program area various projects are selected based on a sense of the needs that have been identified within that area; the funding that is projected to be available (and the limitations on how it can be used); and any specific support or direction that has been provided by official advisory groups, neighborhoods, individual citizens, the City Council, outside agencies or other sources of input and guidance. The following section contains a list of plans and reports from which the majority of current CIP projects have been compiled. City of Eugene 2008 - 2013 Capital Improvement Program 13