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