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HOW LONG WILL THIS TAKE? <br />The expectation is that the actual meetings of the Team to develop the <br />recommendation would take approximately two months. However, prior to the Team <br />meeting, there would need to be some time devoted to gathering information and data, <br />communicating with the larger community, and selecting a facilitator and Team <br />members. After the Team has produced a recommendation, there would need to be <br />some additional time devoted to community discussion and outreach. Ideally, the full <br />time from the time Council initiates the process until a recommendation is ready to go <br />through the established approval processes through the Planning Commission and <br />City Council would be approximately six months. <br />By clarifying the objectives of local plans and creating a more robust framework for <br />localized planning, the localized planning that would follow would be able to be <br />accomplished more efficiently. <br />HOW ARE NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATIONS INVOLVED? <br />For those neighborhoods that have active Neighborhood Associations, the <br />Neighborhood Association would play an important part in helping to provide a forum <br />for gathering input and discussion with the community at large. The specifics of how <br />the Team is selected still require work, but given that this is a city-wide process, the <br />method would have to be fair and equitable for both citizens who are well represented <br />by their Neighborhood Associations as well as those who live in places where <br />neighborhood associations don't exist or don't have the resources to provide <br />representation. <br />WHO IS "AFFECTED"? <br />Oregon's Goal One for Citizen Involvement in Land Use Planning indicates that <br />planning shall include a "cross-section of affected citizens." In addition, citizen is <br />defined broadly, to include not just residents or homeowners, but also businesses, <br />non-profits, property owners, and others who would be impacted by the decisions. <br />The CCOS process continues the Envision Eugene goal to focus growth along key <br />transit corridors, but recognizes that it is not just properties that directly front the key <br />road that are affected. The current thinking is that for the broader objected setting <br />process, "affected" areas would include both the road itself and areas within half a <br /> <br />