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9 APRIL 2019 | PAGE 18 CITY OF EUGENE | STEAM PLANT REDEVELOPMENT DESIGN PROPOSAL OUTREACH EFFORTS AND RESULTS The team sought feedback on the initial draft proposal through extensive public outreach, both in-person and online, over the course of a month. We kicked things off on January 23rd at a Downtown Neighborhood Association Meeting where we were encouraged by some positive early feedback. The team engaged the public for feedback on several occasions at a variety of venues: UO Campus (spoke with ~125 people), downtown at the First Friday Art Walk (chatted with ~200 people), at the State of the Tech Community event (QA with ~150 people), at the EWEB Community Room for an open house (dialogged with ~150 people), as well as at the Lane County Fairgrounds during the annual Asian Celebration (spoke with ~300 people). We created a website (https://steamplant.us) to showcase the draft proposal which has been visited 2,427 times. We also engaged the public through a Steam Plant social media presence on both Facebook and Instagram. Our survey was promoted through the City of Eugene’s newsletter, Arts organization newsletters, as well as business and tech community newsletters. We spoke directly with over a thousand people and collected more than 900 surveys that guided refinements to the draft proposal. We read every single survey that was submitted and took the comments to heart. There was a significant amount of validation of the draft design in the survey results and we listened carefully for comments that would help us refine the draft. We received significant positive affirmation on the initial proposal. Here are some direct quotes: “I find this project exciting and a wonderful investment in our community. I’m very happy to hear about plans to incorporate creative and cultural components to the project. I feel that providing opportunities for the public to creatively engage builds connections among our community.” “For ten plus years, I’ve been part of a small group of people who have felt that the steam plant had a huge potential to bring people to the river to be entertained, learn and to mingle and your vision fills my Eugene heart and soul with that potential.” “Let’s do this! Projects like this transform a city–not just physically but in spirit. This is so wonderful for your community.” The quantitative feedback was also encouraging, 84% of survey respondents told us, for example, that the river overlook feature was important, with more than 60% of respondents actually going further to say that the feature was ‘extremely important.’ Ap r i l 24 , 20 1 9 , Wo r k Se s s i o n - It e m 1