Item B: South Willamette Concept Plan Update

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South Willamette Concept Plan 7. IMPLEMENTATION PLAN Code and Plan Amendments The implementation phase of the project will in- clude additional processes and an opportunity for the community to provide input into creation of the implementation tools. See Section 1 for further description of the long -term function of the South Willamette Concept Plan. Timing Actions will generally be undertaken in the short, medium and long -term. Short -term actions are those required to be complete prior to submitting Eugene's 20 -year growth plan for adoption by the State. • Short -term actions generally include: • developing a new Single Family Options (SFO) zone, and related design guidelines • establishing a pilot community investment program Medium -term actions are those generally required for adoption of a Special Area Plan (SAP) for the district, including: • form -based or hybrid code and • related design guidelines, • plan designation changes • zone changes amendments to the South Willamette Subarea Study,enabling ordinances. Long -term actions will be completed follow- ing adoption of the SAP, and will be carried forward as policy statements within the SAP describing how to implement future elements of the plan. The South Willamette Concept Plan will be en- abled by translating the content of the plan into an adopted Special Area Plan for the district, in- cluding a companion set of code provisions and related plan amendments. Code Amendments • Develop and adopt a new zone for Single Family Options (SFO) and Single Family Options with Row Houses allowed (SFO- RH) to enable recommended housing types, including cluster cottages, courtyard housing, town houses and row houses, in a sensitive fashion within existing single family neighborhoods • Develop new zones in such a way that they may provide a potential template for use in other areas of town, or draw appropriate content from similar zones such as the Walnut Station SAZ • Enact appropriate revisions to the Eugene Code needed to enable new zones and procedures • Develop and adopt new land use code standards based on building form through a Special Area Zone (SAZ) reflecting the site and building design outcomes of the South Willamette Concept Plan, including height limits, setbacks, stepbacks, step downs, relationship to the street, parking configuration and other critical features • Include code provisions to allow car sharing and shared parking as a pilot projects to test the feasibility of innovative concepts Design Guidelines • Develop a concept for character that supports active uses and transparent pedestrian scaled frontages facing Willamette Street and commercial side streets • As part of the new code, develop a set of clear and objective development standards drawn from design principles recommended in the South Willamette Concept Plan, as well as a corresponding set of design guidelines to be applied in a design review process 54 ■ City of Eugene