River Road Community Organization
The River and Garden District
We were honored to have Eugene Mayor Kaarin Knudsen speak at our June RRCO neighborhood gathering. She spoke about what has occupied her time in her first five months as mayor and ongoing topics of concern, and then took questions from community members.
The Mayor spoke extensively about the City … Read more
As part of the City of Eugene’s attempts to close their deep budget shortfall, neighborhood associations have been warned that they would likely lose some or all funding from the City. These proposed cuts were in addition to proposed cuts in areas such as library, fire, homeless and animal services.… Read more
While most roads in River Road are County-maintained (and a small number are City-maintained), another subset of roads in River Road are “local access roads”, or “LARs”. These are public county roads that Lane County failed to accept into its road system many decades ago, and which are the responsibility … Read more
https://www.eugene-or.gov/documentcenter/view/55317
In 1982, the Cities of Eugene, Springfield and Lane County adopted the Metro Plan. Policies in the Metro Plan encourage annexation as the preferred means of providing services to new development and state a preference for cities to become the providers of service within their Urban Growth Boundaries (UGB). … Read more
Although the City and County have approved our River Road/Santa Clara Neighborhood Plan, the real opportunity to create the Neighborhoods we envisioned is through the Action Plan. The Action Plan is a separate document which includes a catalogue of community-identified strategies, or actions, which could be used to implement the … Read more
In preparation for our July 1, 2024 General Meeting we sent questionnaires to staff leads for transportation planning at the City of Eugene, Lane County, School District 4J Safe Routes to School and Lane Transit District. Here are their responses:
RRCO General Meetings and RRCO Board Meetings
You are welcome to use Google Meet to join electronically to our General Meeting or to observe our Board Meetings. These links are expected to stay the same over the coming months, one for the General Meeting and a different one for the … Read more
On April 22 the Eugene City Council approved the Neighborhood Plan 8-0, and the Code Amendments (with the removal of River Avenue) 7-1. The video of the City Council deliberation can be found HERE (10:36 to 24:00). The Council also unanimously passed an additional motion for the Council to hold … Read more
After further analysis LTD staff is proposing that the Eugene City Council and the LTD Board of directors consider re-designating the Locally Preferred Alternative for River Road from EmX to Enhanced Corridor after legal staffs have determined the process for amending that designation.
Should the re-designation take place, LTD … Read more
The River Road -Santa Clara Neighborhood Plan and Code Amendments
(Summary by Jon Belcher)
Councilors present: Leech, Yeh, Zelenka, Semple, Groves, Clark, Evans, Mayor Vinis
absent: Keating,
Commissioners: Ceniga, Buch, Farr, Lovall, & Trieger
Link to Agenda and Video timeline:
Staff presentation and formalities: (6:30à16:10)
Testifiers
Bill Kloos (Start at … Read more