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Downtown Riverfront Specific Area Plan L L 1. INTRODUCTION FIGURE 1 -1 A. OVERVIEW For decades, Eugene has aspired to gracefully reconnect its downtown with the Willamette River. At the only location where the city center reaches to the river's banks, the Specific Area Plan for the Downtown Riverfront seizes this opportunity. The fundamental vision for the redevelopment of Eugene's Downtown Riverfront includes a balance of sustainable redevelopment, ecological repair, and a high - quality public realm. The 27 -acre Downtown Riverfront is envisioned as a vibrant, mixed -use neighborhood that utilizes green design principles and teaches about our community's history along this stretch of the Willamette. It seeks to implement several long -range growth- management policies that emphasize infill development, mixed -use, public access, and sustainable redevelopment strategies. This vision includes 8 acres of public open space, new construction, adaptive re -use, pedestrian - oriented streets and paths connecting Downtown Eugene to the Willamette River, accessible public amenities, and a Cultural Landscape that displays Eugene's ecological, social, industrial and civic history. The Downtown Riverfront Specific Area Plan is a policy document that provides basis for the content of the Downtown Riverfront Special Area Zone (S -DR). This plan summarizes the content and public design process completed by the EWEB Riverfront Master Plan, and it gives form and specificity to the goals and principles outlined by the 2004 Downtown Plan. This Specific Area Plan for the Downtown Riverfront includes a physical framework for redevelopment and form -based guidelines that shape the public realm, as well as use requirements and design elements needed to achieve the community's vision of a rich and vibrant riverfront district. This plan provides a framework that builds certainty about the future of the riverfront property's redevelopment. It is specific where necessary and also flexible enough to allow the community's vision to be realized in different ways. The plan outlines the principles, context, objectives, recommendations, and requirements from the completed master plan, as well as the public design process completed to arrive at this vision. Descriptions of design intent are included to provide the basis for adjustment criteria and future design decisions. Rowell Brokaw Architects m 5