Appendix 1 <br />River Road-Santa Clara Neighborhood Plan <br />Engagement Summary <br />Launched in fall 2017, the River Road-Santa Clara <br />neighborhood planning process has been a collaborative <br />effort among community members, River Road <br />Community Organization (RCCO), Santa Clara Community <br />Organization (SCCO), City of Eugene, Lane County, and <br />other stakeholders throughout both neighborhoods. The process had six phases: Reaching Out, <br />Neighborhood Visioning, Neighborhood Priorities, Policy Development, Action Planning, and Adoption, <br />with opportunities for community and stakeholder feedback along the way. This engagement summary <br />includes the community engagement objectives and outcomes from each of the six planning phases. <br />In July 2017, the Eugene Planning Commission (acting as the Citizen Involvement Committee) approved <br />the RRSC Neighborhood Planning Public Involvement Plan. The Project Management Team committed to <br />a community engagement process that was: <br />•Meaningful: creates a vision crafted with beauty, fun, warmth, and welcome <br />•Accountable: responds to ideas, critique, comments, and praise <br />•Inclusive: communicates with all stakeholders, including the under-represented, outside of <br />structured meetings, in ways that people understand and can relate to <br />•Transparent: makes decisions public; shares information in a variety of formats and places <br />•Realistic: informs about constraints, opportunities, and objectives <br />•Outcome-oriented: creates a community-supported and council-adopted neighborhood plan! <br />The Public Involvement Plan and the associated Project Charter (July 2017) established several <br />foundational, community-led groups that would lead neighborhood planning, including: <br />•Community Advisory Committee (CAC): A group of 11 voting members, appointed by the <br />Eugene Planning Commission, that represent the varied voices of the two neighborhoods. The <br />CAC was responsible for considering the full breadth of public input, developing operating rules, <br />working with City and County staff to reach a mutually agreed upon community vision and plan <br />that works within the larger Envision Eugene community vision, and making a final community <br />recommendation. <br />•Project Management Team (PMT): A small core team of the CAC co-chairs and City and County <br />staff tasked with carrying out the project in accordance with the Project Charter. <br />•Technical Advisory Committee (TAC): Composed of City and partner agency staff to serve as <br />advisory body to the Project Management Team and the Community Advisory Committee. The <br />TAC represented their own project or departmental interests and communicated how the <br />neighborhood-specific issues fit within the broader City/County context. <br />•Topic Area Working Groups: Each group focused on one of the Plan’s priority areas and <br />included community members and staff. <br />•River Road and Santa Clara Community Organizations: Both community organizations <br />supported public outreach throughout the project. During key decision points in the project, the <br />organizations led efforts to host meetings and communicate with stakeholders. Both community <br />organizations made recommendations to the CAC to inform the final community <br />recommendation on the plan adoption package.