Item A: Comprehensive Plan for Bringing Properties into City

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8. Preserve and restore the Willamette River and Greenway as an open space corridor and enhance to the maximum degree possible the visual, physical, social, and pedestrian connections between the river and the River Road and Santa Clara communities; preserve and restore local stream corridors, smaller drainage ways, roadside ditches, and the soils and trees that function as the area's natural drainage system. 9. Make the River Road thoroughfare the central unifying, rather than dividing element of the River Road and Santa Clara communities and provide for other improvements that make our neighborhoods connected, safe, accessible, and walkable. 10. Ensure the provision of quality public services, by partnering with and between residents, local special service districts, the City of Eugene, Lane County, and other groups and jurisdictions to implement this Transition and Heritage Framework. The top four priorities identified in the Public Outreach section of the Transition Report were: 1. Land Use 2. Governance 3. Parks and Recreation 4. Transportation The Transition Team recommended these areas be further defined by the community organizations. The first step in doing this would be to conduct a statistically valid survey of River Road and Santa Clara residents. NEIGHBORHOOD ORGANIZATION STRATEGIES In April of 2010, SCCO and RRCO approved formation of a Joint Strategy Team (JuST) to recommend how the goals of the Transition Report might be pursued. The team expressed concern about conducting a survey without the proper groundwork; unless residents understood the issues they were commenting on, the survey would be invalidated by participants' lack of information about the issues. It was determined a survey would need to be preceded by a massive public outreach and education effort addressing the issues of land use, governance, parks and recreation, and r transportation. In addition to taking steps JCVr toward achieving the Transition Plan goals, : an invaluable side -effect would be to create a stronger bond with residents, institutions, .� and businesses as well as build the capacities of SCCO and RRCO. SCCO and RRCO determined this task could be greatly assisted by a Neighborhood Services' Strategic Neighborhood Assessment and Planning (SNAP) grant. Subsequently, the SNAP grant was applied for and awarded, launching the Santa Clara- River Road Outreach and Learning project (SCRROL). Ee �_ i4l TM-ali- Oft Ad—