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Neighborhood Livability Working Group <br />SECTION V: CURRENT EFFORTS TO ADDRESS LIVABILITY <br />s area livability. All parties <br />(City, University of Oregon, neighborhoods and students) are already implementing a number of actions to <br />maintain the quality of life in this area. While landlords and property owners do not have specific programs listed <br />that they are leading, most are committed to ensuring responsible behavior of their tenants, support and <br />participate in current efforts and maintain management practices to ensure their properties contribute positively to <br />the neighborhoods. <br /> <br />City Led <br />Eugene Police Department (EPD) Rental Property Program: This free program offered by EPD generates an <br />automatic email to participants any time a police incident is initiated at one of their properties, whether or not EPD <br />was able to respond to the complaint. Since the beginning of last school year, the property owner of each location <br />for which EPD received a party or loud noise complaint was contacted and an attempt was made to recruit them <br />into the program. Response to this program has been overwhelmingly positive. Landlords are kept informed <br />regarding activity at their properties, and tenants are learning that each time they have a loud party reported to <br />EPD, their landlord is finding out! <br /> EPD deploys a group of officers coordinated by a supervisor to target the behavior crimes <br />and violations in the West University Neighborhood that has been known to lead to riots and other disruption of <br />the neighborhood. <br />load of the City, the officers assigned to the West University are hired on overtime. The cost per one night of the <br />deployment is approximately $2,726, or $5,252 for both weekend nights. Deployment of this team is generally <br />concentrated in the Fall months, and then again in the Spring when the weather is conducive to outside <br />activities. On average, EPD deploys officers in West University 12 to 16 weekends per year. The yearly costs of <br />a periodic enforcement in the area runs from $100,000 to $120,000, including a large scale operation for <br />Halloween weekend. <br />the task group is deceptive as the emphasis has shifted from responding to disorderly parties, to targeting the <br />alcohol and behavioral issues that have led ultimately to riots. <br />EPD Crime Prevention Program: The EPD Crime Prevention Unit (CPU) has focused a great deal of effort in the <br />near-campus neighborhoods as well as heavily student-populated neighborhoods such as Commons & Kinsrow over <br />the last couple of years. Two-to-five-day crime prevention outreach events were held during move-in week in <br />September, prior to winter break in December, and prior to spring break in March. The CPU has staffed a booth <br />outside the UO bookstore, gone door-to-door in the neighborhoods handing out crime prevention literature and <br />answering questions about how to safeguard property, sent emails to UO and NCU students via the schools and <br />landlord distribution lists, given crime prevention trainings to landlords, and used local media to get their crime <br />prevention message to community members. The Crime Prevention Specialist for the campus area regularly patrols <br />the neighborhoods, looking for suspicious behavior and alerting neighbors to circumstances which could make them <br />easy victims. <br />University of Oregon (UO) Led <br />Community Welcome event and communications: During the first week of classes in September, City, <br />neighborhood, and university leaders canvass campus neighborhoods to welcome students back for the year and <br />encourage them to be respectful neighbors. Leaders share materials provided by the UO and the city concerning <br />neighbor relations, throwing a responsible party, the rental housing code, crime prevention and additional services. <br /> <br />14 <br />Page <br /> <br />
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