EXHIBITS Page 112 <br />2. Enhance the Eugene-Springfield metropolitan area's quality of life and economic <br />opportunity by providing a transportation system that is: <br />• Balanced, <br />• Accessible, <br />• Efficient, <br />• Safe, <br />• Interconnected, <br />• Environmentally responsible, <br />• Supportive of responsible and sustainable development, <br />• Responsive to community needs and neighborhood impacts, and <br />• Economically viable and financially stable. <br />Findings and Policies <br />The findings and policies in this element are organized by the following four topics related to <br />transportation: <br />• Land Use <br />• Transportation Demand Management <br />• Transportation System Improvements <br />• System-Wide <br />• Roadways <br />• Transit <br />• Bicycle <br />• Pedestrian <br />• Goods Movement <br />• Other Modes <br />• Finance <br />Land Use <br />Findings <br />1. The Oregon Transportation Plan (OTP) (1992) states that Oregon's land use <br />development patterns have tended to separate residential areas from employment and <br />commercial centers, requiring people to drive almost everywhere they go; that the results <br />have been increased congestion, air pollution, and sprawl in the metropolitan areas and <br />diminished livability; that these auto-dependent land use patterns limit mobility and <br />transportation choices; and that reliance on the automobile has led to increased <br />congestion, travel distances, and travel times. <br />2. Studies annotated in the Land Use Measures Task Force Report Bibliography have found <br />that land use development patterns have an impact on transportation choices; that <br />separation of land uses and low-density residential and commercial development over <br />Laurel Ridge Record (Z 15-5) Page 675 <br />