Agenda Packet AMENDED 4-15-19 Work Session

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Summary of Planning Documents-Bethel Neighborhood 2 Bethel has been included in a variety of area-specific and city-wide planning processes. This section summarizes planning documents that affect Bethel. The document first describes area-specific plans, then city-wide plans that include Bethel. For the purposes of this summary document, the Active Bethel Citizens (ABC) neighborhood boundary will serve as the Bethel neighborhood boundary. This is bounded by the following streets, graphically shown in Figure 1: North of the railroad tracks, East of Green Hill Road, South of Clear Lake, and West of Highway 99N. Area-Specific Planning Documents for Bethel The City of Eugene develops plans to assist with neighborhood improvement, economic development, and specific neighborhood concerns such as transit access. These documents include policy guidance, economic development tools, and planned infrastructure improvements. In this section we briefly describe the planning document, its purpose and its impacts to the Bethel neighborhood. Danebo Neighborhood Development Program—1970 In 1969 the City of Eugene’s Urban Renewal Agency undertook a project in the Bethel neighborhood called the Danebo Neighborhood Development Program. This program utilized one- time federal Housing and Urban Development funding to revitalize the neighborhood by installing basic infrastructure and by eliminating blighted living conditions. The project area is roughly a nine-square block area north of Barger Drive, between Ohio and Minnesota Streets, shown in Figure 2. The following objectives are outlined in the Neighborhood Development Program. Rehabilitation of properties not to be acquired. Install public facilities: streets, curbs, sidewalks, sewer, lights and park. Acquisition, clearance, sale, lease or retention of properties for rehabilitation or redevelopment by private or public under provisions of Urban Renewal plan. Acquisition and clearance of properties in proposed park site. Development of low- moderate income housing. The Bethel Refinement Plan—1975 and 1982 The Bethel Refinement Plan was created in 1975 and updated in 1982. This is the active planning document specific to the Bethel Area. This plan was developed by the City in partnership with the Active Bethel Citizens and the Bethel Triangle Neighbors planning teams. It addresses land use, the urban services area and urban growth boundary along with transportation. The plan also includes neighborhood goals from the residents of Bethel. The plan’s land use section focuses on general land use and nodal development in three specified areas (the Barger-Beltline development node, Royal-Danebo development node, and West Bethel- Danebo development node) and Bethel-Triangle neighborhood development. April 15, 2019, Work Session – Item 1