February 21, 2024 Work Session – Item 1 <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 draftingpolicies that relate to the vision and neighborhood priorities. The policies are organizedunder eighteen high-level goals. Both the goals and policies were written by theCommunity Advisory Committee (CAC) and vetted by topic area Working Groups and theproject management team. The policy language was then refined by staff to incorporatelegal feedback, to better reflect the actions associated with those policies, and to providegeneral clarification. <br />•Summer 2019 - Spring 2021: The fifth phase, the Action Planning Phase, focused ondrafting, evaluating, and prioritizing actions, which the community identified as possiblestrategies to implement the Neighborhood Plan policies. The project team providedupdates on the Action Planning Phase and received feedback on land use code relatedactions to focus on in the Adoption Phase at the March 22, 2021 Eugene PlanningCommission work session and the April 6 and April 20, 2021 Lane County PlanningCommission work sessions. <br />•May 2021: The Eugene City Council and Lane County Board of Commissioners directedstaff to move into the Adoption Phase and prepare the River Road-Santa ClaraNeighborhood Plan adoption package for community review. <br />•Summer 2021-Fall 2022: Work continued preparing and refining a draft corridor code. Bylate fall 2022, several challenges to the project including the pandemic, staff changes, andnew state rules caused the staff team to reconsider the path to landing the project. Whilethe vision statements, goals, policies, and actions remain largely intact, staff proposedshifting certain implementation tools such as zoning and land use code amendments tobetter align with new rules affecting middle housing, climate friendly development, andhousing production. <br />•November 2022-June 2023: The project staff team spent five months between November2022 and March 2023 discussing with the CAC how to best land the project within existingresource and state law constraints, while meeting as many of the neighborhood objectivesas possible. Staff proposed a compromise that includes the most critical neighborhood-specific land use code amendments identified through the corridor planning work but doesnot create a new zoning district or rezone properties. In March 2023, the CAC voted to sendthe draft Neighborhood Plan, Action Plan, and Neighborhood-specific Land Use CodeAmendments out to the community for feedback. <br />•May-June 2023: A variety of outreach events and tools were offered in May and June,including virtual information sessions, a community survey, River Road and Santa ClaraCommunity Organization meetings, and a Community Meeting held at North Eugene HighSchool. A project update was presented to the Eugene Planning Commission on May 23,2023, and the Lane County Planning Commission on June 6, 2023. <br />•July-August 2023: The project staff team assembled comments from the outreach andshared them with the CAC. The comments at this stage in the process were generallysupportive, although some community priorities are not addressed by the current plan andwill require ongoing work by the City, County, and community partners. The CAC voted onJuly 27, 2023 to move the revised adoption package forward to public hearings. The CACrecommendation letter, as well as recommendations from RCCO and SCCO are included in <br />Attachment E. <br />CC Agenda Page 3