The City of Eugene and Lane County are embarking on a two year process to develop a River Road – Santa Clara Neighborhood Plan. The Santa Clara Community Organization strongly encourages you to attend the kick off meeting. The two year process will go by quickly and relies on community engagement to develop and implement the plan. Good attendance at the first meeting will help us forge the direction of the plan for our future.
Neighborhood Plan Kick-Off
The River Road – Santa Clara neighborhood planning process will kick off with a community meeting at North Eugene High School on October 17th. Everyone who is interested is encouraged to attend.
When: October 17th 2017, 5:30 – 7:30 PM
Where: North Eugene High School Cafeteria
Two main ideas will be addressed at the first meeting.
- What do you like about Santa Clara that you want to keep?
- What do you want to see improved or added in the future?
Please plan on attending. Here are some key areas to think about.
- Land Use Planning: What activities, like housing, shops or parks, do we want where? How will the neighborhood feel and look?
- Economic Development: How will good jobs and services be supported?
- Parks and Natural Resources: What do we want to happen with outdoor spaces? Do we want a community park, a dog park, more developed parks?
- Transpo
rtation: How will we get around? It is expected that there will be much discussion about the Beaver-Hunsaker corridor
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The County Commission approved the Beaver-Hunsaker Corridor plan.
Last year members of the Santa Clara Community Organization took measures to respond to a community request to establish a dog park in Santa Clara. SCCO worked with the City of Eugene Parks to explore if this might be done at Lone Oak Park in south Santa Clara. Changes at City Parks and lack of City resources to improve parks put this on the back burner for a time.
Over the last couple of months SCCO has given this initiative new oxygen. A meeting with a City Parks planning has given this idea new hope. The City cited some experimental programs by other cities to establish unfenced dog parks where parks are not developed but are identified as off leash areas with dogs under the supervision of their owners. Lone Oak will be one of the parks in a pilot program where several City parks will be identified. We will be looking for volunteers to help get this established.
On Saturday, September 16, at 11 am, there will be a workshop at the Santa Clara Community Garden, 4110 River Road in the Santa Clara neighborhood of Eugene to demonstrate several soil building methods, including: hot and cold compost, lasagna (layers), and vermiculture (worms) . Master Gardener Bonnie Houston will demonstrate how to keep hot and cold compost going in the fall and winter. A worm bin, started in July, will be checked to see how soil building is going. The benefits of worm castings will be discussed. Other OSU Extension Service Master Gardeners will assist, including translation to Spanish. The workshop will take about an hour, and is free to the public.
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