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I Hollow Road to the south. The proposed development proposes multiple new streets within the PUD that directly or indirectly connect to West Amazon Drive. 3 EC 9.8325(6)(c) provides that "[t]he street layout of the proposed PUD shall disperse 4 motor vehicle traffic onto more than one public local street when the PUD exceeds 19 lots or 5 when the sum of proposed PUD lots and the existing lots utilizing a local street as the single 6 means of ingress and egress exceeds 19." The hearings officer concluded that West Creek's 7 proposal satisfied EC 9.8325(6)(c): 8 "The street layout disperses motor vehicle traffic onto more than one public 9 local street, as all streets proposed within the development connect with West 10 Amazon Drive, which extends beyond the development site to the north 11 (connecting with Martin Street) and south (connecting with Fox Hollow 12 Road). The applicant proposes to improve West Amazon Drive to provide 13 this traffic dispersal; the PUD proposes no phasing of the development, which 14 means that the street improvements will be in place prior to development of 15 the lots, rather than on an incremental basis that would bring the 19-lot rule 16 * * * into question. 17 "The applicant additionally notes that there are two dispersion points-one to 18 the north, which sends traffic onto the portion of the Eugene Street network 19 leading to the 30th Ave./Hilyard grid, and one to the south connecting the 20 portion of the Eugene street network comprised of Fox 21 Hollow/Donald/Willamette Street. The applicant states that the two street 22 networks are sufficiently separated that if a blockage occurred on one, the 23 other would not be affected." Record 473. 24 The planning commission adopted findings that agree with the hearings officer's conclusion 25 and further explain: 26 "This standard stems from Fire Code about isolated access. The concern 27 would be if West Amazon Drive dead-ended at the site. Instead, the Applicant 28 proposes to improve West Amazon Drive between the existing street 29 improvements at the north and south ends of the site. * * :k Fire staff has 30 confirmed that this meets their requirements for providing two points of 31 access." Record 35. 32 In its third assignment of error, Southeast Neighbors argues that the planning 33 commission erred in concluding that EC 9.8325(6)(c) is satisfied because West Amazon 34 Drive, as it is proposed to be improved, is the single public street onto which traffic from the Page 20