A number of planning efforts have occurred in River Road and Santa Clara in the years since the <br />Urban Facilities Plan was adopted, leading up to and informing the formal Neighborhood <br />Planning process that began in 2017. <br />a. Initiated in 2007 and acknowledged by the Eugene Planning Commission in 2009, the <br />Lower River Road Concept Plan supported planning efforts for the Rasor Mixed -Use <br />Center. Lower River Road was identified in the regional transportation system plan, <br />TransPlan (2001), as a potential area for mixed-use redevelopment. This planning <br />process brought diverse elements of the community together to propose over thirty <br />recommendations related to the vision for Lower River Road and to evaluate <br />implementation strategies related to sustainability, transportation, and land use. <br />b. RRCO and SCCO joined together in February 2011 on an ambitious public outreach <br />project to survey area residents and identify priorities for the future development of <br />both neighborhoods, known as the Santa Clara -River Road Outreach and Learning <br />(SCRROL) project. They identified community priorities and facilitated community <br />dialogue on land use, governance, parks and recreation, and transportation. This <br />outreach work resulted in a Report and Recommendations document that included key <br />findings about what was important to the neighborhood residents and a list of <br />recommendations. <br />c. SCRROL's Report and Recommendations included a recommendation to form a new <br />advocacy group named the Santa Clara -River Road Implementation Planning Team <br />(SCRRIPT), a task force to be composed of River Road and Santa Clara representatives to <br />work on common goals. SCRRIPT would function similar to SCRROL but was created to <br />be more proactive in advocating for specific solutions and implementing the goals <br />identified by SCRROL. Throughout the SCRROL and SCRRIPT planning initiatives, the <br />community organizations dedicated countless volunteer hours in reaching out to and <br />engaging neighbors. <br />The results of these previous planning processes formed a foundation for the Neighborhood <br />Plan. The Neighborhood Plan Project Charter reads, "Adopted in 1987, the plan is dated and a <br />new plan for this large part of the community with unique planning issues is needed. The River <br />Road and Santa Clara Community Organizations have dedicated innumerable volunteer hours to <br />build a foundation of public input on which to build the neighborhood planning process" <br />b. Can the 1987 Urban Facilities Plan be amended instead of repealed and replaced? Why <br />wasn't this the path that was chosen? <br />As addressed in the previous question, the previous planning efforts from the River Road and <br />Santa Clara communities recognized that a plan this old should be replaced with a new plan <br />based on current outreach efforts and updated approaches to planning practice. As the new <br />neighborhood plan was developed, the policies and themes from the 1987 Urban Facilities Plan <br />that met the neighborhood's current priorities were carried over into the new neighborhood <br />plan. In addition, other planning tools such as the parcel -specific land use diagram are in the <br />process of being created at a city-wide scale. While it would have been possible to conduct a <br />Page 11 of 21 <br />