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-=~;. <br /> <br />.ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER <br />of the <br />Traffic Engineer of the City of Eugene <br />,1EFFERSON STREET -INSTALLATION OF BIKE LANE <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) shall <br />exercise specific traffic duties by administrative action, including: the implementation of <br />ordinances, resolutions, -and motions of the council and his or her own orders by installing traffic <br />control devices; and establishing, maintaining, removing or altering all traffic control areas and <br />traffic contro! devices; <br />2. The administrative action taken to provide for a bike lane on Jefferson Street, and the <br />resulting removal of on-street parking and other necessary changes to traffic controls, is based on <br />consideration of, and compliance: with, the criteria set forth in Eugene Code, Section 5.055; <br />3. The Eugene Bikeways Masterplan designates that Jefferson Street north of 13th <br />Avenue shat! have an on-streef bike lane; <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. The City Council appointed a special subcommittee (Council Subcommittee on 1994 <br />Bikeways Projects) in June of 1994, to specifically examine mitigation of the effects of parking <br />removal in the Westside Neighborhood.. The City Council subsequently approved a set of <br />recommendations for Jefferson Stree~~ baked on the subcommittee's final report, which shall be <br />implemented concurrently;vvith;the bike, lane; <br />6. The proposed street design requires on-street parking be prohibited.on Jefferson Street <br />on the west side between Broadway and 1 1 th Avenue, and between 12th Avenue and 13th <br />Avenue, and on.the east side from south of 10th Avenue to 12th Avenue; <br />7. Providing a separate bicycle facility in this corridor will provide safer conditions for <br />bicycle travel and other travel modes on Jefferson Street.- The final design is in conformance with <br />traffic .engineering standards; and~~ <br />8. The City provided a notice to owners\occupants of the proposed bike lane project in <br />May of 1994, and received a number of written and verbal comments from the affected parties, <br />primarily opposed to the loss of on-street parking. These concerns were responded to directly by <br />staff and/or through the work of the council subcommittee. <br />