Public Safety—Traffic Signs and Signals

Posted on October 27, 2020 by Tim Foelker

Have a concern about traffic safety in and around your neighborhood? Need a new sign or signal?

Public safety is always a concern for residents of Santa Clara and SCCO.

You will find information on Eugene Traffic Operations at this link:
https://www.eugene-or.gov/313/Traffic-Operations

Under Services, click “Traffic sign – report missing, request maintenance or request new” for an online maintenance services request form—and Public Works contact number/email.

Other traffic resource information:
https://www.eugene-or.gov/625/Traffic-Signals
https://www.eugene-or.gov/DocumentCenter/View/42674/TrafficSignal-Fact-Sheet

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LTD to Begin Discussion Toward Future of Santa Clara Surplus Property [@ New Santa Clara Transit Station]

Posted on October 22, 2020 by Tim Foelker

At their October 21 meeting, the LTD [Lane Transit District] Board of Directors will discuss a motion to declare the portion of the undeveloped Santa Clara parcel to be surplus property. In 2015, LTD purchased an eight-acre lot with the intent of relocating its current transit station from River Road just south of Beltline to the new location on River Road between Green Lane and Hunsaker Lane, the former Santa Clara Elementary school.

In early 2018, LTD began conversations with the Santa Clara neighborhood about the plan to build the Santa Clara Transit Station on the site, understanding LTD would use only a portion for the station and sell the remaining land. As a mass transit district, LTD may only purchase, develop, or manage the property for transit purposes. Declaring the remaining undeveloped lot surplus will release the property from mass transit restrictions allowing an opportunity for another public or private developer to implement the neighborhood vision for housing, commercial development, and public investments. The move to declare the property surplus does not commit LTD to a timeline or process to sell the property.

LTD takes great pride in being a good neighbor. Transit stations are regularly serviced to ensure they are well-maintained, safe, and clean. “I am excited to see the Santa Clara Transit Station completed in early 2021. The new traffic signal will create safer conditions for pedestrians, cyclists, and motorists. The new lighting and security amenities along with the attractive station design will encourage economic development. LTD is looking for public and private partners who want to spark economic development and create a space where families feel safe walking, biking, or riding LTD buses,” said Board Vice President Caitlin Vargas.

Information

For more information about the project, Click Here
For More Information: Randi Staudinger, LTD Project Manager, Randi.Staudinger@LTD.org

For Public Comment: SCTransit@LTD.org or 541-682-3240

Posted in Beaver-Hunsaker & Multi Use Path, General Interest, Land Use Planning, LTD Mass Transit, LTD Transit Station, Parks - Dog Parks, Public Safety, Transportation, Urban Planning | 1 Comment

Check your ballot status

Posted on October 21, 2020 by Gary Haliski
State of Oregon Seal

If you’ve sent in your ballot and are wondering if it has been received, you can check on the State of Oregon website. Just fill in your name and birthdate in the following page on the State of Oregon website – https://secure.sos.state.or.us/orestar/vr/showVoterSearch.do?lang=eng&source=SOS

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Opportunity Knocks—Should SCCO Go 501(c)3?

Posted on October 19, 2020 by Tim Foelker

Without a public place to gather, celebrate, and share information Santa Clarans have limited opportunities to build community in a lasting way. An historic one-room schoolhouse built in 1901 sits on land owned by the City of Eugene (located within the Santa Clara Community Park boundary).  SCCO has the opportunity to own the building, return it to its single-room grandeur, and use it as a publicly-available community space.  In order to do this, we’ll need to form a non-profit that can hold the property and help raise funds for its reconstruction and ongoing maintenance.  This non-profit foundation could also help with raising funds for other neighborhood initiatives like more community gardens, dog parks, the annual Santa Clara celebration, and other projects.  These projects expand our local ability to serve each other and we need your help in deciding whether to make it happen. We invite you to be involved. A vote to form the non-profit and approve the schoolhouse project will happen at our next SCCO meeting (Nov. 5th, 7PM, Zoom.) We need your input and vote! Please contact us at (458) 209-9990, and to receive SCCO email updates, enter your email in the right sidebar.

Rendering of the River Loop 2 schoolhouse.

The schoolhouse project will be a volunteer effort to bring a small piece of our history back into use, to connect our future with our rich agricultural past and give us a place our neighborhood can call home.  The non-profit will give us an ability to help fund other creative projects our community dreams up.  We invite you to be involved.  Whatever your skill, there is a place for your help in these efforts.

Thank you,
The SCCO Board and Other Members

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Should the SCCO form a 501(c)3 corporation?

Posted on October 14, 2020 by Gary Haliski
image of non profit logo

The SCCO is asking you to join us for our November 5th Zoom meeting to vote on if the SCCO should form a non-profit corporation.  Forming a 501(c)3 non-profit corporation would allow people and businesses to donate to the non-profit and be eligible for a potential tax deduction.

There has always been a desire by the SCCO to form a non-profit.  Donors to past projects could have benefitted from non-profit status.  While we can’t make non-profit status retroactive for past projects, we foresee some potential projects, both small and large, in the future.  Here are some current and future potential projects where it would be beneficial to have non-profit status for donations:

There are many other possibilities and we welcome your suggestions. 

At our November 5th SCCO Zoom meeting, we will also be voting on moving forward with the conversion of the old schoolhouse.  If members vote to move ahead, we expect that this project will require the most financial and material support of all of our projects.  We feel that forming the 501(c)3 will help nudge donors to support the schoolhouse project.

If you have any questions regarding forming a non-profit or questions about the schoolhouse project, please email us at contact@santaclaracommunity.org

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