River Road-Santa Clara Neighborhood Plan <br />Engagement Summary <br /> <br />Page 6 of 11 <br /> <br />Phase 4: Policy Development (July 2018 – May 2019) <br />After laying the groundwork through the phases of Reaching Out, Visioning, and Neighborhood <br />Priorities, the Policy Development phase started in late 2018 through spring 2019 and focused on the <br />drafting of policies related to the vision and neighborhood priorities developed from community input. <br />Throughout the policy development phase, Working Group meetings were held periodically and <br />interested community members were welcome to attend. <br />Policy Round-Up <br />Policy writing was led by the CAC and supported by staff on the TAC as well as Working Group members. <br />At the ‘Policy Round-Up’ in December 2018, participants sorted the draft policies into broad, cross- <br />cutting themes organized under 18 high-level goals. The goal of the activity was to review the draft <br />policies and identify missing ideas, such as places where certain themes across a topic area were not <br />well represented within the draft policies. More than 60 people participated. <br />Triple Bottom Line Sounding Board <br />In January 2019, the TAC did a closer review of the policies to ensure that the draft policies aligned with <br />existing City and County policies. In February 2019, the first Triple Bottom Line Sounding Board meeting <br />was held to provide a citywide perspective about the equity, environmental, and economic implications <br />of proposed action items in the Neighborhood Plan topic areas. Throughout the topic areas, there are <br />overarching themes such as equity and inclusion, connectivity, healthy people and climate, safety, <br />prosperity, and neighborhood identity. <br />River Road Corridor Study <br />February 2019 brought the first workshops for the River Road Corridor Study.1 Over the span of the <br />three-day open house the public had a chance to dive into the details and create actual designs for <br />neighborhood centers along River Road. The theme of the first open house was, “Getting Started: <br /> <br />1 The River Road Corridor Study was a partnership between Lane Transit District and the City of Eugene, supported <br />by a grant from the Federal Transit Administration. The completed study is available here: https://www.eugene- <br />or.gov/DocumentCenter/View/60545/River-Road-Corridor-Study-FTA-Grant