Santa Clara Community Organization Meeting
Thursday, December 7
7:00 p.m.
Messiah Lutheran Church, 3280 River Road
The southeast corner of Hunsaker Lane and River Road is the former site of the Santa Clara Elementary School. The Lane Transit District purchased the 8+ acre site two years ago to be used for a bus transfer station. SCCO is currently wanting to continue working on trying to achieve its vision of a community focal point. LTD is not really in the development business, but is just interested in a bus station in a portion of the property. This means that they may simply sell off the rest of the lot to be developed by commercial developers.
The Santa Clara Community Organization is seeking a way to realize at least a portion of this lot for public use. This might mean public amenities peripheral to a central plaza. Also there might be an educational function honoring this spot as the historical center of Santa Clara and honoring the Santa Clara agricultural heritage, possibly featuring a farmers market.
The December meeting of the Santa Clara Community Organization will feature a free wheeling discussion of what might be considered in a community gathering spot and some strategies as to how this might be accomplished. Come and participate. Share your vision.
The original LTD plan was to place the transfer station in the bottom right quarter of the map. The rest of the old Santa Clara school site would be sold to developers. This plan shows housing in the top right and commercial all along River Road.
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Santa Clara REALLY NEEDS a dog park. Maybe it could be here?
This corner is already congested and dangerous. Many accidents and many peds cross here, Have you driven through during morning and evening commute – traffic back up from beltline. Adding a major bus station here needs a lot more thought.. Widen River road and Hunsker/Irving intersection? More housing on tiny lots, and for sure not enough parking if commercialized. How is the land zoned now? Oh wait – that does not matter, zoning always gets changed based on potential tax revenue for the city.
My vote – no go for the bus transfer station
I agree, this area/intersection/freeway on and off is a nightmare. The traffic lights are not timed right, there is always a backup of traffic, unsafe for everyone and especially those not in cars. More development would only increase the problem.
Agreed. LTD is showing it down our throats just like they have all over Eugene!
This decision is absolutely senseless in every measure. The current location is ideal in so many ways (students, food, shopping, etc.) and the relocation will absolutely not address current justification for its relocation–traffic. To think these kind of ideas were born before widespread legalization of marijuana to boot. Traffic is so much worse at the Hunsaker location and will certainly only get worse, pushing traffic jams even further north down River Road.
There must be a gold mine or a huge honey pot of a deal potentially at the current site, and it would certainly serve well to know who has their stakes ready or their hands sticky to precipitate such a preposterous scheme/scam for relocation.
There really needs to be an immediate moratorium on all development in this area(city for that matter) until we have people who can figure out where to find the sky. There is a desperate need to drain the creek of these leaders with their Utopian idealism, for people with pragmatic and realistic perspectives. Eugene and Santa Clara is a rural city of barely 100,000 not the next Mecca of the West Coast. Salem has already outpaced Eugene in growth and I’m sure there are other cities which are or have already done so(isn’t it time we stop counting Springfield for numbers?) These leaders should really look to leave their impressions elsewhere, but oh right, anywhere else, they wouldn’t be leaders.
McDonalds and Carl Jr’s is hardly food.