<br /> <br /> <br /> <br />AGENDA COVER MEMO <br /> <br />Memorandum Date: February 21, 2020 <br />Work Session Date: March 10, 2020 <br /> <br /> <br />TO: Board of County Commissioners <br /> <br />DEPTARTMENT: Public Works Department, Land Management Division <br /> <br />PRESENTED BY: Jared Bauder, Planner with Lane County <br /> Chelsea Hartman, Senior Planner with City of Eugene <br /> <br />AGENDA ITEM TITLE: WORK SESSION/ River Road-Santa Clara Neighborhood Plan Project Update <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />I. MOTION <br /> <br />None; this is a discussion item only. <br /> <br />II. AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY <br /> <br />The River Road and Santa Clara Community Organizations, City and County staff, consultants <br />and neighborhood volunteers have been working together since the spring of 2017 to create <br />a neighborhood plan for the River Road and Santa Clara Neighborhoods. The plan will focus <br />on five topic areas—Land Use, Transportation, Economic Development, Parks & Natural <br />Resources, and Community. This work session is an opportunity to hear an update on the <br />neighborhood plan’s Action Planning phase and the River Road Corridor Study. No action is <br />requested; however, feedback is invited. A complete plan with goals, policies and actions will <br />be brought through a formal adoption process beginning later this year. <br /> <br />III. BACKGROUND/IMPLICATIONS OF ACTION <br /> <br />A. Board Action and Other History <br /> <br />The neighborhood planning project is divided into key phases (see below), with frequent <br />opportunities for decision makers to learn about the project along the way. The Reaching Out, <br />Visioning and Neighborhood Priorities phases of the project were completed between fall <br />2017 and summer 2018. Through spring 2019, the Policy Development phase focused on the <br />drafting of policies that relate to the vision and neighborhood priorities. The draft policies are <br />organized under eighteen high-level goals, which were written by the Community Advisory <br />Committee (CAC) and vetted by the topic area Working Groups. On May 21, 2019, the Board