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From: Hillary Kittleson To: Eugene RR -SC Plan; *Eugene Mayor, City Council. and City Manager Cc: HARDING Terri L Subject: River Road/Santa Clara Neighborhood Plan Code Amendments Date: Thursday, February 29, 2024 11:12:42 AM [EXTERNAL ] Dear Mayor Vinis and Members of the City Council: At the recent Council Work Session on the River Road/Santa Clara Neighborhood Plan you and other councilors expressed some reservations about the proposed code amendments to be adopted concurrently with the neighborhood plan. I want to urge you to not only adopt those code amendments but consider additional language regarding the C-2 zone advocated by the board of the River Road Neighborhood Organization. As a member of Santa Clara River Road Implementation Planning Team (SCRRIPT) for several years, I helped host a number of neighborhood listening sessions before the initiation of the plan, attended public meetings to get feedback at various stages of the plan as it was developed, and helped prepare the land use section as a member of the Land Use Working Group. One thing that was strongly supported by SCRRIPT was the need for implementing code amendments at the time the plan was adopted. Otherwise, the document would have no teeth and would lust be another tome of fine words to set on a shelf. We had this discussion at SCRRIPT many times and communicated that position to City staff. The code amendments before you are the minimum needed to guide neighborhood development and salvage as much as possible of the document's vision and values. Adding a requirement for first floor commercial use in residential buildings located in the C2 zone would make a significant positive difference. Please support the adoption of the minimal code amendments as proposed, and direct staff to prepare neighborhood -specific amendments to the C2 Zone to require first floor commercial. Sincerely, Hillary Kittleson 995 Elkay Drive Eugene, OR 97404 Sent from Mail for Windows 32