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<:; <br />i _,, <br />ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER <br />of the <br />Traffic Engineer of the City of Eugene . <br />CHAMBERS STREET -INSTALLATION OF BIKE LANES <br />The Traffic Engineer of the City of Eugene finds that: <br />1. The Eugene Code, Section 5.040 provides that the City, Manager (or -designee} <br />shall exercise specific traffic duties by administrative action, including: the implementation <br />of ordinances, resolutions, and motions of the council and his or her own orders by <br />-installing traffic control devices; and establishing, maintaining, removing or altering al! <br />traffic control areas and traffic control devices; <br />2. The administrative action. taken to provide for bike lanes on Chambers Street, <br />and the resulting removal of on-street parking and other necessary changes to traffic <br />'controls, is based on consideration of, and compliance with, the criteria set forth in Eugene <br />'Code, Section 5.055; ' <br />3. ,The Eugene Bikeways Masterplan designates that Chambers Street betvveen 18th ' <br />Avenue and 24th Avenue shall have on-street bike lanes; <br />4. The project is consistent with the City Council's transportation goal of promoting <br />alternative modes of transportation, and other adopted state and local plans and laws; <br />5. Tfie proposed street design requires on-street parking be prohibited on Chambers <br />Street on the west side between 18th Avenue and 24th Avenue, and on the east side <br />'; ,~:;> between 23rd Avenue and 24th Avenue, and allows on-street parking to remain along the <br />.` east side between 19th;Avenue and 23rd Avenue; <br />- . <br />~I~ 6. Providing separate bicycle facilities in this corridor will provide safer. conditions <br />for bicycle travel .and other travel modes on Chambers Street. The final design is' in <br />conformance with traffic engineering standards; and <br />7. The City provided a .notice to owners\occupants of-the proposed bike lane project <br />in May of 1994, and received a small number of verbal comments from the affected <br />parties, primarily opposed to the lo~ss`of on-street parking. These concerns were <br />responded to directly by staff. <br />Now, Therefore, <br />Based upon the aforementioned findings, and pursuant to the authority provided. in the <br />Eugene Code, the Traffic Engineer orders that: <br />( 1. Bike ,lanes shall. be marked along both sides of Chambers Street between 18th <br />Avenue and 24th Avenue; and ' <br />