A well-planned transportation system supports a thriving community. The City of Eugene and Lane Transit District encourage input from March 10 to April 11 on transportation investment packages for five of our major streets: River Road, Highway 99, Coburg Road, MLK, Jr. Blvd., and 30th Avenue to Lane Community College. Participate in an online open house or drop by our event on March 18:
Visit the online open house from March 11 to April 10 at MovingAhead.org.
Community-Wide Open House Monday, March 18, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Baker Center, 975 High St., Eugene
Whether in-person or online, your participation will enter you in a drawing to win a $25 Amazon gift card!
The community-wide open house will have free children’s activities and refreshments! Interpretation in Spanish will be available. Interpretación en español estará disponible. Accessibility arrangements, interpreter, translation, and/or child-care services can be made for all MovingAhead events with 48 hours notice. For more information, call 541-682-6100 (voice) or 7-1-1 (TTY).
2019 Free Compost Workshop on Saturday, March 2, 10 AM
The Santa Clara Community Garden (SCCG) will host the following soil building workshops. SCCG is located behind St. Matthews Church at 4110 River Road, about 1-1/2 mile north of Beltline. These composting workshops are free and do not require preregistration. All sessions run for an hour or two.
2019 Compost Workshop Schedule
March 2 — Review of cover crops and composting techniques
March 23 – OSU Hot Compost Specialist demonstration
May 11 – OSU Compost Specialist demonstration
June 1 – Build a compost
October 19 – OSU Compost Specialist demo and cover crops
November 16 – SCCG Compost Demo
Workshops will include discussion of various composting methods, including: hot compost, cold compost, lasagna, cover crops, and soil building with worms.
Garden plots are available to rent immediately in the Santa Clara Community Garden for $60 per year. This includes water, leaves for mulching, and access to compost. People who want to build up and improve the soil in a garden plot using composting techniques may attend compost workshop(s) and rent a plot right away. Contact Peter at 541-321-0798 for more information.
Here’s an update from Becky Taylor, Senior Transportation Planner for Lane County Public Works.
I really appreciate how many of you reached out to me and shared your safety concerns and ideas for improvement. There is incredible synergy and collaboration happening. Although plans are still in the works and funding has yet to be finalized, there has been enough discussion – including at public meetings, such as the Central Lane Metropolitan Policy Committee and the Lane Area Commission on Transportation – to share some preliminary plans.
Safety Engineering
We’re looking at a low-cost, low-impact solution that we could implement next summer. At this time, we are exploring how much room we could squeeze out of the exiting roadway to increase the space for people walking. Some ideas include changing the paint – shifting the fog lines and potentially narrowing the vehicle travel lanes – to provide as much space as possible (ideally four feet) for walking. The walking area would likely need to be buffered by some vertical post reflective delineators. There may be areas where we would need to add more gravel shoulder, but I’m not yet sure how much additional paving we could manage. We are also exploring a Rapid Flashing Pedestrian Beacon in the vicinity of Ross Lane, Echo, or Taito.
Safety Education
I’m working with the Safe Lane Coalition to develop a safety education campaign to deploy in the area. We’re reaching out to the many assisted living facilities in the area (i.e. the group care where Irene lived, Lone Oak Assisted Living, St. Vincent de Paul, Laurel Court, Oak Leaf Village, Apple Orchard Village, Sierra Oaks Senior Living, Cornerstone Housing, and Green Leaf Village) to see if they would be interested in some pedestrian safety education – and some reflective gear, such as vests and lights. We would also like to develop signs that neighbors could display in their yards. Below is a yard sign design that we are exploring printing on real-estate-sized signs with posts that would just press into the grass. Please let me know if you’d be willing to display something like this in your yard – to help me with some cost estimates as I work on fundraising.
Thanks,
Becky Taylor Senior Transportation Planner Lane County Public Works 3040 N. Delta Hwy Eugene, OR 97408
The public is welcome to the Community Advisory Committee Meeting (CAC) tonight.
The Committee is dedicated to creating a neighborhood plan, adopted by the City and County, that advances the community vision of the River Road and Santa Clara neighborhoods while being consistent with Envision Eugene. Attending CAC meetings is a good way to keep informed of the progress made on the Neighborhood Plan over the past 16 months.
North Eugene High School Library 200 Silver Lane 6 – 8 PM
The topic areas of the plan are
Land Use
Economic Development
Parks and Natural Resources
Transportation
Community
You can review the progress of the planning process by topic area by visiting the city web site here.
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