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under that arrangement, 1,375 ad
ditional parking spaces would
have to be found on the stadium’s
site under the expansion proposal,
so the University has asked for a
further reduction in the parking re
quirement.
In place of adding an expensive
parking structure on stadium prop
erty or acquiring surrounding land
for parking, the University has sub
mitted a Transportation Demand
Management Plan to the Eugene
Planning Commission for consid
eration.
The city recommended several
changes to the University’s first
proposal and a revised version is
due by Friday at 5 p.m. at city of
fices. No University officials were
available to confirm if the plan is
on schedule, but Peter Koonce
with Kittleson and Associates,
Inc., in Portland said Wednesday,
“We’re working toward that dead
line.” Kittleson and Associates is a
traffic engineering firm working
with the University on the plan.
Allen Lowe, a senior planner
with the city of Eugene, said that
the University is intent on making
this plan work because it is essen
tial to please the 12,100 additional
people who will be attending foot
ball games at Autzen. Instead of
spending money unwisely, Lowe
said it is to the University’s advan
tage to splurge in different ways.
“The way you reduce demand
for automobile-related facilities,
such as a parking structure, is to
put your money and your empha
sis into how to get people in there
by bikes, by transit and by walk
ing,” said Lowe, who has also been
working with University officials
to refine the TDM Plan.
Included in the city’s recommen
dations to the University.are an in
creased number of places for people
to park their bicycles and restruc
turing pedestrian access to ensure
safety along Centennial Boulevard.
One of the key ways to move
those extra people into the area,
Lowe said, is to increase the per
centage of fans using the Lane
Transit District bus system. Lowe
said that the city estimates that
about 40 percent of fans attending
a football game at Autzen come in
by car and approximately 14 per
cent use the bus. The TDM Plan
aims for 21 percent bus usage.
“This is a big deal, [because] get
ting 21 percent of the 51,000 peo
ple to use the bus to get to the site
is difficult,” he said. “And it cer
tainly is going to require that the
buses have priority in terms of
movement in this area, so that they
are able to get into it and get out of
it and people don’t have to wait in
line for two hours after a game.”
Other recommendations by the
city included an increase of park
and-ride locations, especially on
the outskirts of town, and a
stronger marketing campaign by
the University to raise awareness
of those spots for out-of-town fans.
Such a demand on bus service
won't be met solely by LTD, said
Andy Vobora, the agency’s service
planning and marketing manager.
Lowe estimated that a squadron of
about 60 buses would be needed to
handle the increased passenger
load, a number which Vobora said
is out of reach for LTD resources.
“With football, it’s become such
a large operation, we can’t keep up
with the demands,” Vobora said.
He said that LTD would work with
other privately-owned bus compa
nies to help alleviate the burden..
Once in the Autzen Stadium
area, however, another problem for
the University arises in where to
situate a bus discharge and pick
up station. Although three spots—
two on University property — are
being considered, Lowe said, the
preferred location for the transit
station is a parking lot on WISTEC
grounds, which is located across
Leo Harris Parkway.
University officials have not
publicly commented on which site
they are proposing in the TDM
Plan. But Meg Trendler, executive
director for WISTEC, said that she
first heard about the possibility of
WISTEC’s property being consid
ered in late March. That was about
three weeks after the University
submitted its request for the
amendment.
“I think that the [University has]
been open in talking with us, but I
don’t think they brought us into
their plans early enough,” Trendler
said.
For the past five years, WISTEC
has sold its parking spaces with
some multi-year agreements in
place, and Trendler said its plans
for sales had already been in
progress for two months when the
University contacted her.
“We have-no problem with the
University expanding Autzen Sta
dium for their fans,” she said.
“However, it needs to be done in a
way that benefits kids who come
from all over southwest Oregon to
visit [WISTEC].”
Assistant Athletic Director Dave
Williford said that the University
has kept open lines of communica
tion between the school and neigh
boring businesses in the Autzen
Stadium area. In May, the depart
ment held an open house at the
Casanova Center, an event that at
tracted a small turnout, he said.
“I think we’re making good
progress — lots of people have ex
pressed concerns,” Williford said.
One of those business owners in
the area, Bernice Michael, submit
ted a letter to the city of Eugene,
asking that planners reject the Uni
versity’s request for a code amend
ment. Michael said that after game
days her business parking lot on
Centennial Loop is strewn with
trash and she has had to hire a
maintenance person to clean up af
terwards.
“I don’t think it’s going to get
any better with more people and
no more parking,” Michael said.
Lowe said that at one point dur
ing the code amendment process,
the Oregon Department of Trans
portation suggested a region-wide
traffic analysis, with all parties —
the city, the University, LTD and
area businesses, among others —
getting together to discuss the issue.
That process, however, would
have added months onto the ex
pansion’s timetable and eventual
ly ODOT rescinded its proposal.
“We all know if you add 12,000
seats, you’re going to bring 12,000
more people here, so it’s going to
get worse — there is no other an
swer,” Lowe said.
Williford said that although on
game days his department is fo
cused on the Autzen Stadium site
instead of surrounding areas, the
University did use aerial photogra
phy and anecdotal information
when considering its TDM Plan.
When asked if CEO and Presi
dent Phil Knight’s decision in
April to pull his reported $30 mil
lion donation from the stadium ex
pansion project impacted this
amendment process, Williford
said the University is “far enough
down the path that it doesn’t make
sense to put a hold on it.”
Once the University submits its
proposal to the city, the plans be
come public record and can be re
viewed by anyone with an inter
est. The public record portion
will remain open until July 24,
and the Planning Commission
will then decide whether to OK
the proposal and send it on to the
City Council.