Join the Friends of Awbrey Park for the 7th Annual Wildflower Celebration. Flowers, music, yoga, horseshoes, snacks and more! Learn which native plants are best for the Eugene-Springfield area. Visit our butterfly garden and see what is growing that attracts pollinators.
Our local Santa Clara yoga studio Gather Together Yoga will be putting on free demonstrations and Santa Clara’s own Tim Foelker [‘Just Call Me T’] will be providing music. We also have produce from local farmers.
In 2006 the citizens of Eugene passed a bond that included purchasing 100 acres in the south Eugene hills. $1.1 million was spent on 26 acres of the Amazon headwaters, and millions more on the Suzanne Arlie 515 acre park in the hills. They city also spent $400,000 of bond money to subsidize the proposed Kidsports complex in south Eugene, an area flooded with athletic facilities and centered on the edge of College Hill, the University and Amazon Park.
Santa Clarians had to wait eleven years for the recent 7 acre waterfront purchase for $450,000 that occurred after the Santa Clara Community Organization pointed out that the property was for sale. There were also some small parcels purchased for neighborhood parks. Six of the nine Santa Clara neighborhood parks are undeveloped and we have no dog park. The city did purchase 35 acres for a community park is in a ‘Butterfly’ configuration. There are no plans to develop the park in the near future.
In 2014, Eugene’s parks and open space director Craig Carnage said the 2006 bond goals are guidelines, not mandates. Once again in 2018, Eugene citizens are being asked for bond money for goals, not mandates.
How have Seattle, Bend, Springfield, Tualatin Hills, Redmond and over a dozen more Oregon cities dealt with the financing and politics involved in city run park systems? By switching to separately funded park and recreation districts. Interested?
Volunteers at work. Wouldn’t it be nice to have a developed park at Ferndale? Where the city takes care of it and not us?
PARK DISTRICT FEASIBILITY STUDY COMMITTEE
Tuesday, April 17th
7:00 pm
Community supporters would like to invite you to attend an organizational meeting to explore the feasibility of creating a Metropolitan Park District to serve the recreational needs of the Eugene area. When speaking to neighborhood groups throughout the greater Eugene area for the past 5 months, we have noted great interest in this type of district and received very favorable results.
Now it’s time to take the next step! We would like to put together a committee of Metropolitan Park District supporters that can organize a process to achieve the goal of completing a feasibility study.
Skinner Butte park. One of many highly developed parks in the city and south Eugene area. Wouldn’t it be nice to ride a bike to something similar in the River Road area that the city maintains?
This is needed to determine if a Metropolitan Park District would be in the best interest of Eugene residents. This organizational meeting will be held Tuesday, April 17th at 7:00 pm at River Road Park and Recreation District, located at 1400 Lake Drive. And will be facilitated by Joel Robe.
Building on the 2014 Beltline Highway Facility Plan, the Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) is continuing planning to improve safety and mobility on the Randy Papé Beltline Highway between Delta Highway and River Road. We have some ideas and want to know what you think.
Join us at a public open house on April 24, 2018 to talk about improvement ideas. Work on the Beltline Highway/Delta Highway interchange is scheduled to begin early next year. It’s the first step in improving your trip. Come take a look at the design and see how it fits with the overall concept for the corridor.
Can’t come in person? Visit the online open house from April 23 until May 25. Visit http://www.beltlinehighwayprojects.org to review information and share your thoughts. Questions and comments can also be submitted via the ‘Contact Us’ tab on the project website Oregondot.org/beltline/.
The Beltline Highway/Delta Highway Project will reconstruct the interchange as a partial cloverleaf to improve safety by eliminating merging and weaving issues on the two intersecting highways. Construction is currently scheduled to begin in early 2019.
The Beltline Highway Facility Plan recommends several projects to improve safety and mobility in the area, including widening Beltline Highway to three lanes in each direction from River Road to Delta Highway, replacing the River Avenue/Division Avenue interchange, and adding a new local bridge over the Willamette north of the highway. Work is ongoing to lay the groundwork for these construction improvements to be ready when funding is available.
Eddie Montejo
Transportation Planner
Santa Clara Community Organization
7:00 p.m.
Thursday, April 5, 2018
Messiah Lutheran Church
3280 River Road
• Call to order
• Introductions
• Ask Kate: Farming/Gardening 101, What Should We Be Doing in April?
• Approval of March minutes
LTD Presentation on Temporary Car Camping Proposal for Transfer Site
SCCO organizing for the Awbrey Park Wildflower Celebration
Northeast Neighbors Introduction and Shared Neighborhood Issues (Kevin Reed)
DAC Approval of Dog Off-Leash Area at Lone Oak Park, Next Steps (Becca Marx)
ArtCity Presentation on Summer Project for River Road/Santa Clara on Cultural Activation (Charly Swing)
• Announcements
– Park district feasibility study committee (April 17; 7 p.m.)
– Preparation for candidates’ fair – May 3
• Reports:
– Update: Awbrey Park
– Update: Luper Cemetery
– Land Use applications: Impact of SB 1051 on communities; Community-developer meeting for Wild Rose Estates
– Update: Santa Clara Community Garden
– others
• Old Business:
– Board approval of moving funds from Transition fund to newsletter fund
• New Business:
– Appointment of NLC rep
– SCCO support of NLC motion in response to SB1051
adjourn
Remember all the excitement from the meetings last fall? Find out which ideas have been incorporated into the planning process by attending meetings on April 17th and late May or early June.
You can sign up for the RR-SC Neighborhood Planning Process updates by clicking here.
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