OTREC-RR-10-10

Cities across the U.S. that are struggling with congestion resort to remedies that are increasingly difficult to implement. This project examines the opportunities and constraints converting an auto-oriented five-and six-lane arterial into a multiway boulevard with transit as a way of reducing congestion, improving pedestrian and automobile safety, and supporting more unified land use for a case study focused on the Franklin Corridor in the Eugene-Springfield area, a corridor under intense development pressure. Through a series of public workshops, planning studios, and student research efforts, University of Oregon students in architecture, landscape architecture, and planning, along with local professionals, and members of the general public worked together to analyze existing conditions, develop planning objectives, prepare conceptual diagrams for development of the corridor, examine alternative right-of-way sections, and calculate potential future development capacity in terms of density and open space.