Planning Commission

AGENDA EUGENE PLANNING COMMISSION Sloat Room, Atrium Building, 99 West 10th Avenue, Eugene, OR 97401 Phone: (541) 682-5481 Web site: www.eugene-or.gov The Eugene Planning Commission welcomes your interest in these agenda items. Feel free to come and go as you please at any of the meetings. This meeting location is wheelchair-accessible. For the hearing impaired, FM assistive-listening devices are available or an interpreter can be provided with 48 hours notice prior to the meeting. Spanish-language interpretation will also be provided with 48 hours notice. To arrange for these services, contact the receptionist at 682-5481. Telecommunications devices for deaf assistance are available at 682-5119. TUESDAY, MAY 5, 2009 – PUBLIC HEARING (5:00 p.m.) PUBLIC HEARING ON TRANSPLAN AND METRO PLAN AMENDMENT TransPlan Project List Update (MA 09-2): The proposed amendments are text amendments to the Eugene-Springfield Regional Transportation System Plan (“TransPlan”) to move two ODOT projects from the Future list to the Financially Constrained list to reflect higher priority status for future funding of these two projects. The two projects are: W. 11th Avenue from Green Hill Road to Terry Street, and Beltline Highway from River Road to Delta Highway. Concurrent amendments to the Eugene-Springfield Metropolitan Area General Plan (the “Metro Plan”) are requested to maintain consistency between TransPlan and the Metro Plan. Lead City Staff: Kurt Yeiter, 682-8379 Public Hearing Format: The order of procedure for quasi-judicial hearings is: 1. Planning Commission chair will commence public hearing. 2. Planning Commission chair will ask commissioners to disclose any conflicts of interest, ex parte contacts, and biases, abstentions or challenges to impartiality submitted pursuant to EC 9.7065. 3. Planning Commission will receive a City staff report and Commissioners will share any information learned from site visits. 4. Public testimony from the appellant and others in support of the appeal. 5. Comments or questions from interested people who are neither proponents nor opponents. 6. Public testimony from those in opposition. 7. Staff response to testimony. 8. Questions from the Planning Commissioners. 9. Rebuttal by the appellant. 10. Planning Commission Chair will announce whether the record is closed; record will be held open; or the public hearing will be continued.