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Item Open Access Equity-Centered Research Methods for Oregon Communities(University of Oregon, 2024) Bartholomei, Mason; Bean, Wyatt; Belcher, Ruth; Lucero, Augustin Olivares; Riogeist, Jasper; Severeid, Emily; Ngo, NicoleLike many states across the United States, Oregon has a history of using transportation, land use, and housing tools inequitably, which has directed and concentrated benefits to the privileged and harms to underserved communities. Oregon’s past included restrictions on who could own land, redlining and exclusionary zoning, prohibiting more affordable types of housing, and unjust siting of massive highway projects. In recent years, Oregon has begun to acknowledge and take steps to address these inequities. The state’s Land Conservation and Development Commission has updated its Transportation Planning Rules and adopted rules to create and implement the Climate-Friendly and Equitable Communities (CFEC) program. CFEC aims to reduce climate pollution, increase transportation and housing options, and promote equitable land use planning outcomes. The program also requires Oregon’s metropolitan cities and counties to engage in a major equity analysis when conducting a major update of their Transportation System Plans (Oregon Administrative Rule 660-012-0135(3)). Public Administration graduate students researched documentation and materials to develop a methodology that could assist with completing tasks required by sections (a) and (b) of that rule: (a) Assess, document, acknowledge, and address where current and past land use, transportation, and housing policies and effects of climate change have harmed or are likely to harm underserved populations; (b) Assess, document, acknowledge, and address where current and past racism in land use, transportation, and housing has harmed or is likely to harm underserved populations.Item Open Access Let's Start Counting! A Methodology to County On-Street Parking Spaces in Oregon Cities(University of Oregon, 2023) Yang, Yizhao; Vandehey, Adrian; Withrow, Timothy; Rhyan, Lucas; Kashinsky, Josh; McFeeters-Krone, Abby; Govindankutty, AnishaIn November 2022, the Oregon Department of Land Conservation and Development issued parking reform for cities with populations above 5,000 to address the financial and environmental burdens of parking mandates. In addition to reforms that all included cities must make, the cities with populations over 100,000 must choose between eliminating parking mandates or adopting pricing for five percent of all on-street parking spaces by 2023, and ten percent of all on-street parking spaces by 2025. Should a city choose this route to comply with these reforms, it needs to know how many on-street parking spaces there are in total. Like most cities, the City of Eugene has varied GIS data but lacks accurate and comprehensive GIS data tracking on-street parking; therefore, our team was tasked with developing a methodology to inventory the on-street parking in Eugene that could be applied to other Oregon cities with populations greater than 100,000. The main objective of this project is to develop a repeatable methodology for identifying on-street parking spaces and estimating their quantity. Our methods leverage widely available GIS data and collection tools to determine the presence of on-street parking based on the characteristics of streets that we sampled and analyzed. To ensure repeatability, we include recommendations based on our research into the street design standards and databases of Eugene and other Oregon cities.