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~-q~-~~ . <br />13TH AVENUE -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 />rrontrol devices; and establishing, .maintaining, .removing or altering all traffic control areas and <br />traffic control devices; <br />2. The administrative action taken to provide for a bike lane on i 3th Avenue, 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 />I <br />~- <br />3. The Eugene Bikeways Masterplan designates that 13th Avenue between Chambers <br />Street and Kincaid Street shall have an on-street 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 199.4 <br />Bikeways Projects} in June of 1994, to s ecificall - <br />p examine miti <br />. Y gation of -the effects of arkin <br />P 9 .. <br />removal in the <br />Westside Neighborhood. The City Council subsequently approved a set of <br />recommendations for 13th Avenue based on the subcommittee's final report, which shat( be <br />implemented concurrently with the bike lane; , ; ' <br />6. The installation of the bike lane requires on-street parking be prohibited along the south <br />side of 13th Avenue from Chambers Street to Lincoln Street except for the one block section <br />from Lawrence .Street to Lincoln Street where. a new parking bay will be constructed to.mtgate <br />parking .loss in this commercial area. Existing on-street parking will be retainedalong the .north <br />.side of 13th Avenue. Parking on Lawrence Street, both north and south of i 3th Avenue, .vvilh be <br />regulated to provide additional short term parking: A commercial marked parking space will be <br />designated on Lawrence Street north .of i 3th Avenue, if desired by the businesses in the area; <br />7. Providing a separate bicycle facility in this corridor will provide safer conditions for <br />bicycle travel and other--travel modes on 13th Avenue. The, final design is in conformance with <br />traffic engineering standards; and <br />8. The City provided a notice to ownersloccupants of the proposed bike lane project in <br />May of i 994, 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 />f _. <br />t <br />