WETLANDS alternative to the $200 million WEP

Cost of Alternative ($17, $88 or $169 million) -- Purpose and Need met by Alternative (not by WEP) -- Avoidance criteria met by alternative

  • Roosevelt Blvd. is a better connector between Beltline and 99, it serves northwest Eugene neighborhoods better than WEP could. Some local traffic would use Roosevelt, regional through traffic would bypass on Belt Line.
  • transfer WEP money to finish Beltline, fix Roosevelt / 99 intersection
    two options for completing Beltline: (1) if Peak Oil is here, (2) if Peak Oil is not yet here. The larger option could convert Beltline to an interstate highway - perhaps I-605?
  • transfer ODOT / City lands for WEP to BLM's West Eugene Wetlands Project
  • new roads: First - 99 - Second Connector, Barger Road Extended & Trainsong Connector (to NW Expressway)
  • fix West 11th intersections (would cost about $2 million, the cost to complete WEP study), other road repairs

 

 

Land Use Shifts
Design not density
intersection repair
community oriented - DESIGN is important
not a bunch of “Broadway places” that are sterile
more artists, less big box stores
LUCU?

 

intelligent urban design

turn lanes - and coffee stand / KFC

parking lot mix - 13th and Polk - church / school

 

 

 

Removal of Urban Reserve at WEP area / west side of Eugene - part of new Metro Plan revisions
hard to believe that it is permanent
Goble Lane - traffic light
Metropolitan Plan boundaryGenuine nodal development
- 11.5 acre parking lot behind Fred Meyer - idea for transit oriented development
Cancel Royal Node (in seismically hazardous floodplain)“build out” (and UGB expansion) won’t work whether WEP is built or not - change in plan -more mixed use (not mixed big box)
- move development from edge of town ("Royal Node," etc) to downtown
(part of solution to 6/7th avenues congestion)Re-use parking lots
land use shift - parking lots into mixed use - behind fred meyer / 2nd and chambers
Block Planning
- block planning, especially in closer in neighborhoods (also in bethel)

Brownfields
brownfields for land use - may or may not be possible - myco / bio remediation research from OSU and U of O (not nanotech)
Trainsong has worst impact - and probably monitoring it the closest
important to support their call for residential / park quality cleanup
as big problem - transport of toxics through town - national effort for non-toxic production and "carbohydrate economy" - we could be a model of this with the conversion of our local industries and the establishment of cleaner industries (renewable energy)
- brownfields and parking lots (RR yard, west 11th industrial area, 2nd and Garfield, downtown parking lots)
note: support for the railroad yard "brown field" is conditional - it may or may not be possible to genuinely clean up the railyard for re-use. Citizen scrutiny is critical for making this happen, if possible.
Premature to indicate design. Needs lots of green space, not industrial reconstruction.
Polluter pays.
Highest standard of detoxification.
Half the problem is the materials being transported through town, not the groundwater pollutants or the herbicides used on the train tracks.
brownfields for land use - may or may not be possible - myco / bio remediation research from OSU and U of O (not nanotech)
Trainsong has worst impact - and probably monitoring it the closest
important to support their call for residential / park quality cleanup
as big problem - transport of toxics through town - national effort for non-toxic production and "carbohydrate economy" - we could be a model of this with the conversion of our local industries and the establishment of cleaner industries (renewable energy)

 

Mycoremediation and bioremediation: use natural processes to detoxify

Case Study: Union Pacific Railyards

West 11th Fred Meyer / Seneca Station BRT / abandoned movie theater

Second and Garfield