<br /> Page 3 <br />Please see the project Public Engagement Summary at Attachment C (Exhibit A) for a full description of <br />project engagement. <br /> <br />Neighborhood Planning Process <br />As noted above, the River Road-Santa Clara neighborhood planning process included six key phases, <br />with opportunities for the Planning Commissions to learn about and provide feedback on the project <br />along the way. A more detailed written explanation of the project phases and group roles can be found <br />on pages 16-18 of the draft Neighborhood Plan. <br />• Spring 2017 – 2018: The first three phases of the project - Reaching Out, Visioning, and <br />Neighborhood Priorities focused on asking community members what they value in their <br />neighborhoods now and about their hopes and visions for the future. <br />• 2018 - Spring 2019: The fourth phase, the Policy Development Phase, focused on drafting <br />policies that relate to the vision and neighborhood priorities. The draft policies are organized <br />under eighteen high-level goals. Both the goals and policies were written by the Community <br />Advisory Committee and vetted by topic area Working Groups and the project management <br />team. The policy language has been refined by staff to incorporate initial legal feedback, to <br />better reflect the actions associated with those policies, and to provide general clarification. <br />• Summer 2019 - Spring 2021: The fifth phase, the Action Planning Phase, focused on drafting, <br />evaluating, and prioritizing actions, which the community identified as possible strategies to <br />implement the Neighborhood Plan policies. The project team provided updates on the Action <br />Planning Phase and received feedback on land use code related actions to focus on in the <br />Adoption Phase at the March 22, 2021 Eugene Planning Commission work session and the April <br />6 and April 20, 2021 Lane County Planning Commission work sessions. <br />• May 2021: The Eugene City Council and Lane County Board of Commissioners directed staff to <br />move into the Adoption Phase and prepare the River Road-Santa Clara Neighborhood Plan <br />adoption package for community review. <br />• Summer 2021-Fall 2022: Work continued preparing and refining a draft corridor code. By late <br />fall 2022, several challenges to the project including the pandemic, staff changes, and new state <br />rules caused the staff team to reconsider the path to landing the project. While the vision <br />statements, goals, policies, and actions remain largely intact, staff proposed shifting certain <br />implementation tools such as zoning and land use code amendments to better align with new <br />rules affecting middle housing, climate friendly development, and housing production. <br />• November 2022-June 2023: The project staff team spent five months between November 2022 <br />and March 2023 discussing with the CAC how to best land the project within existing resource <br />and state law constraints, while meeting as many of the neighborhood objectives as possible. <br />Staff proposed a compromise that includes the most critical neighborhood-specific land use <br />code amendments identified through the corridor planning work but does not create a new <br />zoning district or rezone properties. In March 2023, the CAC voted to send the draft <br />Neighborhood Plan, Action Plan, and Neighborhood-specific Code Amendments out to the <br />community for feedback. <br />• May-June 2023: A variety of outreach events and tools were offered in May and June, including <br />virtual information sessions, a community survey, River Road and Santa Clara Community <br />Organization meetings, and a Community Meeting held at North Eugene High School. A project <br />Page 5 of 185