16,800 postcards mailed to all residents and property owners within the River Road and <br />Santa Clara Neighborhoods <br />Emails to project interested parties providing updates over the project phases <br />Please see the project Public Engagement Summary at Attachment B (Exhibit B, Appendix 1) for <br />a full description of project engagement. <br />Neighborhood Planning Process <br />As noted above, the River Road -Santa Clara neighborhood planning process included six key <br />phases, with opportunities for appointed and elected officials to learn about and provide feedback <br />on the project along the way. A more detailed written explanation of the project phases and group <br />roles can be found on pages 16-18 of the draft Neighborhood Plan. <br />• Spring 2017 - 2018: The first three phases of the project - Reaching Out, Visioning, and <br />Neighborhood Priorities focused on asking community members what they value in their <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 drafting <br />policies that relate to the vision and neighborhood priorities. The policies are organized <br />under eighteen high-level goals. Both the goals and policies were written by the <br />Community Advisory Committee and vetted by topic area Working Groups and the project <br />management team. The policy language was then refined by staff to incorporate legal <br />feedback, to better reflect the actions associated with those policies, and to provide general <br />clarification. <br />Summer 2019 - Spring 2021: The fifth phase, the Action Planning Phase, focused on <br />drafting, evaluating, and prioritizing actions, which the community identified as possible <br />strategies to implement the Neighborhood Plan policies. The project team provided <br />updates on the Action Planning Phase and received feedback on land use code related <br />actions to focus on in the Adoption Phase at the March 22, 2021 Eugene Planning <br />Commission work session and the April 6 and April 20, 2021 Lane County Planning <br />Commission work sessions. <br />May 2021: The Eugene City Council and Lane County Board of Commissioners directed <br />staff to move into the Adoption Phase and prepare the River Road -Santa Clara <br />Neighborhood Plan adoption package for community review. <br />Summer 2021 -Fall 2022: Work continued preparing and refining a draft corridor code. By <br />late fall 2022, several challenges to the project including the pandemic, staff changes, and <br />new state rules caused the staff team to reconsider the path to landing the project. While <br />the vision statements, goals, policies, and actions remain largely intact, staff proposed <br />shifting certain implementation tools such as zoning and land use code amendments to <br />better align with new rules affecting middle housing, climate friendly development, and <br />housing production. <br />November 2022 -June 2023: The project staff team spent five months between November <br />2022 and March 2023 discussing with the CAC how to best land the project within existing <br />resource and state law constraints, while meeting as many of the neighborhood objectives <br />as possible. Staff proposed a compromise that includes the most critical neighborhood - <br />specific land use code amendments identified through the corridor planning work but does <br />not create a new zoning district or rezone properties. In March 2023, the CAC voted to send <br />the draft Neighborhood Plan, Action Plan, and Neighborhood -specific Land Use Code <br />March 12, 2024 JEO Public Hearing - Item 1 <br />CC Agenda Page 3 <br />