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Nei hborhood a ital R <br />C e ue is <br />s <br />g P Q <br />i <br />~' _ ' City staff received the following neighborhood-related project requests during this CIP update <br />cycle: <br />A request from Bethel Triangle Neighbors indicated that they have requested that Lane <br />Transit District add a route to serve Bethel Drive, and acknowledged that this might <br />depend on construction of physical improvements to that particular street. <br />Response: Bethel Drive. is_one of a number of unimproved streets in Eugene that remain on <br />the "unfunded" project list in the CIP. As a neighborhood collector street, Bethel Drive serves <br />more than just a local street function, and should receive a higher priority for improvement <br />than a local street. However, the cost of improvements would have to be shared by the City <br />and the property owners, and such a project could proceed only if the City Council decided <br />to allocate the City share of the funding as a higher priority than other needed projects. (The <br />frontage along most of the eastern side of the road would not be assessable since it is railroad <br />operating right of way, at the present time.) At this time the staff is not recommending that <br />Bethel Drive be improved during the period of the 2002-2007 CIP. <br />;' ' A resident of the Willakenzie area (though not officially representing the neighborhood <br />association) requested street lighting, traffic safety improvements, landscaping, and <br />related amenities along portions of Willakenzie Road between Cal Young Road and <br />Coburg Road. <br />Response: These types of project requests are generally addressed by allocating funds from <br />ongoing capital funding for street lighting and traffic operational improvements, rather than <br />listing them as individual projects in the CIP. (For example, if the City has capital money for <br />adding street lights, individual requests are ranked using a set of consistent criteria, and the <br />locations that rank the highest will have lights installed.) Staff will work with the individual <br />to obtain additional clarification on the requests and investigate the potential for addressing <br />the concerns, within funding constraints and taking into account the need to address similar <br />issues in other locations. <br />City of Eugene 2002-2007 Capital Improvement Program <br />Page 9 <br />