Adequate staffing and funding <br />This issue is related to the item immediately above. The current project has an ambitious timeline and <br />substantial funding (i.e., FTA Grant), but there are other River Road and Santa Clara neighborhood <br />priorities beyond the corridor that require attention from city staff and inter -agency partners on the <br />Technical Advisory Committee. These staff will have competing demands of their time within their own <br />organizations. Therefore, the project management team must be judicious in involving key partners in <br />an efficient and productive manner. <br />Dependencies <br />The neighborhood plan and FTA TOD grant -funded plan are intertwined administratively, but they <br />should operate as a single project in the public eye. <br />Risks <br />The final section describes special risks that may interfere with project delivery, and it provides <br />mitigation options to avoid foreseeable risks. <br />Annexation <br />The issue of unincorporated Lane County lands inside the Eugene urban growth boundary remains <br />unresolved. It is difficult to predict the outcomes or when public concerns related to annexation will <br />arise. However, City Planning staff and the neighborhood groups have reached agreement that <br />annexation is best addressed after the policy framework of the neighborhood plan has been agreed <br />upon by the decision makers. Attempting to tackle both — neighborhood planning and resolving complex <br />service delivery associated with annexation — simultaneously could prove deleterious to the successful <br />completion of the proposed planning efforts. Two interconnected and dependent elements should be <br />considered here. <br />The FTA TOD grant -funded project makes it particularly important to keep the focus on <br />neighborhood planning. The TOD grant is time sensitive and must be executed within 18 <br />months of initiation, unless a timeline extension is agreed upon. <br />The inter -governmental agreement between City and Lane County — commonly referred to <br />as the "190 agreements" — remain in effect. In that IGA, the County delegates land use and <br />permitting authority to the City of Eugene. Properties already within the City limits will <br />benefit from the adopted neighborhood plan immediately once it becomes effective. <br />Properties under Lane County jurisdiction will still need to annex to the City prior to <br />submitting land division or development applications. <br />Mitigation <br />■ Project update to City Council in an early Fall 2017 work session can cover these interconnected <br />dynamics. The intention is to defer substantive discussion of and decisions on the annexation <br />subject as part of a future conversation. This approach is intended to reduce the chance of <br />neighborhood planning efforts from being conflated with annexation. <br />■ During neighborhood planning outreach efforts, Planning staff and neighborhood leaders are <br />prepared to answer questions related to Governance/ Annexation through several means. <br />1. Annexation process fact sheet handouts <br />2. Annexation and Property Tax fact sheet handouts <br />181 Page <br />58 <br />