CCAgenda-4/12/04WS - Laserfiche WebLink

Home Browse Search

2. Connect special places downtown with enhanced street designs, public art, directional signs, transit routes, and historic markers to create an inviting and memorable route through downtown. 3. Promote adjacent park and open space areas as a valuable complement to downtown's urban places. Improve connections between downtown and nearby nature areas. 4. Encourage listing of appropriate structures and sites of historic importance in the National Register of Ilistoric Places or as City of Eugene Historic Landmarks. V. Living Downtown 1. Stimulate multi-unit housing in the downtown core and on the edges of downtown for a variety of income levels and ownership opportunities. 2. Reinforce residential use in neighborhoods abutting the downtown commercial core to help contain commercial activity in downtown and maintain the historic character and livability of adjacent neighborhoods. VI. Downtown to the River 1. Incorporate the Willamette River as an integral element to downtown planning and development. 2. Collaborate with EWEB to encourage relocation of their utility facilities. ........ ~, ....................... om u c use: master plan for the EWEB riverfront property must be approved by the city before any redevelopment, land use application, rezoning, Metro Plan or refinement plan diagram amendments are approved for uses not associated with EWEB functions. The master plan shall be evaluated based on the master plan's consistency with principles A through D below: E. Create a "people place" that is active, vibrant, accessible and multi-use. F. Provide appropriate setbacks, deeper where environmental or habitat issues are more critical, shallower in other areas. G. Incorporate appropriate building and site design techniques that address environmental concerns. It. Incorporate an educational aspect, so that the riverfront improvements teach us about our river, our history and our city. 44