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RESPONSE TO NEIGHBORS FOR NEIGHBORHOODS <br /> (NFN) REQUEST <br /> NFN presented the City Council with a revised traffic circulation plan. <br /> The Council deferred this to the Council's Transportation Committee <br /> which considered this at its meeting on February 10th <br /> To put this in context, through the Institutional Overlay Zone <br /> process, following hearings before the Planning Commission and the <br /> City Council, the City Council adopted master plans for the Colby <br /> Campus and ECC property, the first in 2005 and then most recently <br /> in 2008. These actions established 13th and 14th Streets as the <br /> intended access streets connecting the medical center campus to <br /> Broadway on the east and Colby on the west with signalization on <br /> Broadway at 13th and 14th. Access to the new tower will be from <br /> 14th Street. <br /> In contrast to the traffic circulation plan approved by Council, the <br /> NFN proposal involves the elimination of signals at 13th and 14th, the <br /> closure of 13th and 14th at Oakes with 12th Street being the main <br /> access to the Hospital campus. <br /> The 2008 action has been challenged by the Neighbors for <br /> Neighborhoods and is pending in two separate forums, superior <br /> court and the Growth Hearings Board. It is anticipated that initial <br /> decisions in both cases will be forthcoming sometime in the latter <br /> part of March. It is certainly challenging for the Council to be asked <br /> to consider making significant revisions to a master plan which has <br /> just been adopted and is being litigated as we speak. Further, it <br /> can't be lost that the Hospital has incurred substantial costs <br /> implementing the approved plans. <br /> Council's 2008 action specifically provides an opportunity for the <br /> consideration of traffic circulation issues such as those being raised <br />