- - - Attachment C <br />Attachment B <br />From: Paul Conte [mailto:paui.t.conte@gmail.coml <br />Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2018 1:56 PM <br />To: GILLESPIE Scott N <Scott.N.Gillespie@ci.eugene.or.us>; GIOELLO Nick R <Nick.R.Gioello@ci.eugene.or.us>; *Eugene <br />Mayor, City Council, and City Manager <maVorcouncilandcitVmanager@ci.eugene.or.us> <br />Subject: Response to Scott Gillespie'a comments regarding street safety <br />Please enter this message in its entirety and attachments into the record for the Capital Hill PUD <br />Tentative application. <br />Scott Gillespie's response below is both erroneous and non-responsive. <br />Regarding "queuing streets." Here are the facts, based on CoE standards, ODOT recommendations <br />and the expert testimony from a qualified, licensed traffic engineer. <br />A "queuing street" does not in anyway support or permit a street in which pedestrians are forced <br />to use the travel lane. CoE standards for a "queuing street" require a 21-foot, paved width to <br />provide a 14-foot travel lane for motorized vehicles and a 7-foot, adjacent parking and pullover <br />lane, which must be configured, marked and signed to provide open (i.e., no parking) areas of <br />adequate length and frequency to allow one of two vehicles meeting head-on to pull-over and <br />pause to allow the other vehicle to pass. Parking on the side opposite the "pullover lane" must be <br />prohibited unless there is another 7 foot designated parking lane on that side. <br />CoE standards require at least a sidewalk on one side so that pedestrians, including wheelchair <br />users, visual- and hearing-impaired individuals, are not forced to walk or roll in the same lane that <br />vehicles use. The "pullover" lane is not intended or allowed to provide some sort of "escape" zone <br />for pedestrians to move out of the path of an oncoming vehicle. Sidewalks are required to provide <br />separation of pedestrians. <br />See the attached Nemarian Report which provides a comprehensive review of "queuing streets" <br />and related standards, including Exhibit J (specifically J.6), which is excerpted from ODOT's <br />recommended standards. <br />2 <br />Page 262 <br />