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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (June 3, 1987)
Planning commission recommends traffic flow changes By Janet Paulson CM the |jn«ra!d The Eugene Planning Com mission completed preliminary recommendations for changes in traffic-flow patterns and parking supply in the commis sion's Monday meeting. The changes are being planned in an effort to bring Eugene up to federal air-quality standards. Eugene is not an Environmen tal Protection Agency ‘‘attain ment” area for carbon monoxide levels, according to Kirk McKinley of the Eugene Planning Department The city’s Public Works Depart ment, with the assistance of the Planning Department, com pleted its Central Area Transportation Study in February. The study addressed possible changes in traffic pat terns within Eugene, particular ly in the areas of the University. Sacred Heart General Hospital and downtown. In addition, McKinley said, the study will simplify the pro cedure for determining whether purking structures will be built. Prior to the CATS study, a The doited lines and heavy black dot above signify streets and an intersection where traffic-flow patterns are to be changed. lengthy and expensive "impact analysis" was necessary when building parking structures. Now potential plans for parking structures must simply demonstrate conformance with the CATS plan. The commission did not recommend a plan to reopen Willamette Street to two-way traffic between 13th and 20th avenues. Reopening Willamette may 1h: reconsidered at some point in the future. McKinley said. Changes will be phased in over a two- to 20-year period based on a priority sc hedule. Changes affecting the Univer sity area include: •Patterson Street between 12th and nth avenues: Add a northbound contraflow lane (one lane of traffic: going one way against two or more lanes going the other direction) to Sacred Heart Hospital; remove on-street parking and widen the strut;!; • Hilyard Street between 11th and 1.1th avenues: Add <i north bound lan« and remove parking on txtlh sides of the street; • 12th Avenue at Hilvard Add a new traffic signal, add an eastfiound left turn lane and remove parking on lx»th sides of the street; • 1.1th Avenue at Hilyard Add an eastltound through lane, and remove parking for one half block north and south of the intersection; • 11th Avenue at Kincaid: new traffic signal; • 13th Avenue between Kharnellon and Willamette: Remove parking on both sides of the street and add an east ttuund lane The commission's recom mendations will lie presenter! to the City Council on June H at a public hearing on the CATS study recommendations. Corrections fund gets loan from county By Alicia Gano Of thr Km«rald Lane Genuity Commissioners loaned $807.00(1 to the Correc tions Construction Fund on Tuesday with the passage of a county 1080-87 supplemental budget. In November of 1080, lane County voters approved a $5.1 million bond measure for the construction of corrections facilities. The bonds to fund the pmject have yet to be sold, but construction planning is under way, according to County Ad ministrator )im Johnson. With passage of the sup plemental budget, the county is loaning itself money from the general fund and placing it in the Corrections Construction Fund to pay construction ex penses incurred during fiscal year 1986-87. Next year when bonds for the project are sold, the loan will be repaid to the general fund with interest. Johnson said By law, the county can loan money from one fund to another hut must repay the loan within one year, he added. New county corrections facilities will include an 88-bed jail addition to the current facility at 101 W. Fifth Ave., a 64-bed community corrections center adjacent to the jail on the east side, an HU-bed workcamp facility and an alcohol-and drug-treatinent center at 11th Avenue arid Washington Street. Other items covered in the supplemental budget included $1.6 million to the county school fund. $52,300 to two funds within the Animal Regulation Authority and $605,000 to the county employee benefits fund. State and national forest receipts accounted for $16 million in additional revenue received by tin* county during the past fiscal year and an! distributed to school districts through the lame Kducatlon Service District To transfer OftC timber revenues to county schools, ap propriations must la! increased to the schools first before the transfer can occur. Passage of the supplemental budget affects this transfer. "The idea of the supplemen tal budget is to bring our expen ditures and revenues into reali ty for said County Commissioner |erry Kust. To balance the old budget !>efnre the new year begins. Kust said funds are transferred or ap propriated after approval "to clean up at the end of the year.” The Lana County Hoard of Commissioners will vote June 23 to adopt or refuse the total county budget package for the 1!»87 88 fiscal year. Dogs Continued from Page 1 (<tnines on the fores, two of ficers and a dog can be used and perforin the task In half the time, he says. The dogs also will indicate in which direction the suspect has fled, eliminating other direc tions from the search, he adds Each of the Eugene and Spr ingfield police dogs lives and patrols with an officer, who works as the dog’s handler — providing instruction, correc tion and praise on a daily basis. Most police dogs begin their education as puppies, receiving training In a (ierman tracking sport called Schutzhund for which there are international standards. Carlson likens this to elementary and high school education for humans and says training for "police work is like going to college." This training takes a long time, says Carlson, who calls it easy compared with ‘‘maintenance of training, which may be more difficult." Maintenance of the training must be “constant or a clog will get sloppy,” he says. Dogs also are chosen for sound, stable temperament and must nut bite out of fear, Cushman says. The dog must be self-confident and possess drives to fight, defend and catch prey, he says. "If the dog doesn't have those drives,” you can't train them in, he adds, so the lack of them disqualifies a dog '-■'It's important if you have a tool to have it work,” Cushman says, adding dogs aren't infalli ble any more than people. Eugene retired one of the first dogs it purchased because it lacked some of these drives. Frost also retired his first work ing dug for the same reason. The cities of Eugene and Spr ingfield each purchased and pay to support the four-member canine corps. Initial costs to start each program were around $15,000. Annual costs for the four-member tennis amount to a few thousand dollars per year, excluding salaries. Frost owns the dogs he's patrolled with and received a $:t() monthly subsidy from municipalities which benefitted from the dogs' services. Some dogs will sit at atten tion, watching their handler's every move when outside the car. Others will hark an initial introduction (even to a car stop ped for a traffic violation) and monitor the situation from a more relaxed position. Although I-ant! County dogs conform to performance stan dards, they each have idiosyn crasies in much the same way humans do. 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