<br />Hearings Official Decision (WG 19-2) 6 <br />relate to any applicable approval criteria.4 To the extent Lindley’s arguments could possibly be <br />construed to implicate any applicable approval criteria, those arguments do not address, let alone <br />refute, the findings in the staff report expressly explaining why the applicable approval criteria <br />are satisfied. To the extent any applicable approval are implicated, I find the staff report’s <br />findings much more persuasive. <br /> All of the Willamette Greenway approval criteria are satisfied. <br />C. Other Issues <br />Beverly Lindley, Daniel Lindley, and Ron Saylor (collectively Traffic Opponents) argue that <br />the proposed use would generate too much traffic. There are no Willamette Greenway approval <br />criteria that relate to traffic impacts. The only way traffic impacts would have to be considered is <br />if a Traffic Impact Analysis (TIA) were required under EC 9.8670, which provides: <br />“Traffic Impact Analysis Review is required when one of the conditions in <br />subsections (1) – (4) of this section exist unless the development is within an <br />area (a) shown on Map 9.8670 Downtown Traffic Impact Analysis Exempt <br />Area, or (b) subject to a prior approved Traffic Impact Analysis and is <br />consistent with the impacts analyzed. <br />(1) The development will generate 100 or more vehicle trips during <br />any peak hour as determined by using the most recent edition of <br />the Institute of Transportation Engineer’s Trip Generation. In <br />developments involving a land division, the peak hour trips shall <br />be calculated based on the likely development that will occur on <br />all lots resulting from the land division. <br />(2) The increased traffic resulting from the development will <br />contribute to traffic problems in the area based on current <br />accident rates, traffic volumes or speeds that warrant action under <br />the city’s traffic calming program, and identified locations where <br />pedestrian and/or bicyclist safety is a concern by the city that is <br />documented. <br />(3) The city has performed or reviewed traffic engineering analyses <br />that indicate approval of the development will result in levels of <br />service of the roadway system in the vicinity of the development <br />that do not meet adopted level of service standards. <br />(4) For development sites that abut a street in the jurisdiction of Lane <br />County, a Traffic Impact Analysis Review is required if the <br /> <br />4 For instance, Lindley argues that the application should be denied due to climate change , raising flood levels, <br />earthquake dangers, and poor use of taxpayers’ funds.