Item A: River Road/Santa Clara Transition Project

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Structure and Process In developing the service options and associated advantages and challenges presented in this White Paper, the 2002 River Road/Santa Clara Urban Services Committee report was the primary starting point, along with other city and regional plans and publications, in determining which services were most important to the neighborhoods. Written factual background summaries for selected services were presented to the impacted service provider(s) for review. The service providers were also asked to provide information updating activities and programs that perhaps were not in place when the published materials were developed. The consulting team also listened carefully to the observations and concerns of the River Road/Santa Clara Transition Task Force, and at other community forums where service delivery questions were discussed and debated. Options were developed by thinking about potential solutions to the neighborhood issues and concerns based on the consulting team’s expertise and experience, by considering activities and programs already underway by local service districts and governments, by researching and understanding applicable solutions developed in other communities in Oregon, and by listening carefully to what was being said at Transition Task Force meetings and in other community forums. The outcome the this approach is well over fifty different options spread across twelve different “Advantages”“Challenges” services, nearly all with associated and summaries, and several with “What Another Community Has Done”. sections entitled The intent is to introduce as full of an “A to Z” set of options as possible. The point of the White Paper is to present - but not select – ideas that might be useful to the neighborhoods and service providers. Even if an option has significant practical limitations, an element of that option might “improve” another. By presenting even those options with major practical limitations to implementation, the neighborhoods, the Task Force, and local service providers have good “sideboards” within which to hone in on the most feasible and useful options. Services addressed in this White Paper include: ? Fire Protection and Emergency Medical Services ? Recreation Services ? Library Services ? Land Use Planning ? Neighborhood Governance ? Streets ? Parks, Open Space and Natural Areas ? Surface Water Management (Storm Water) ? Public Safety (Police Protection) ? Water Supply ? Sanitary Sewer ? Solid Waste Collection and Recycling For most of the above services, an individual White Paper chapter including a separate evaluation and sets of specific options, have been prepared. Each chapter addressing a single service includes options classified as ”Transition” and/or “Heritage”. For some such services, the listed options have been further classified as applying exclusively to River Road or Santa Clara, and in some cases “Miscellaneous” service options are identified. This neighborhood classification is typically used where an individual neighborhood is served by a single purpose special district (such as River Road Parks and Recreation or Santa Clara Fire). Water supply, solid waste collection and recycling, public safety, and sanitary sewer services are consolidated into a single chapter, as explained in the introduction to that chapter. 4 River Road/Santa Clara Transition/Heritage White Paper DRAFT 11-24-05 Service provider Review