River Road Community Organization
The River and Garden District
A Letter to Our River Road Community
From the Co-chairs of the River Road Community Organization
Dear River Road Neighbors,
As we reflect on the past year, we’re grateful once again for the spirit, generosity, and involvement that make River Road such a special place to live. In this letter … Read more
September 7 greeted us with a crisp morning and the promise of sunshine. Early volunteers gathered to raise up a 20 x 20 Pagoda Tent donated by Action Rent-All – a huge thank-you to them!
The River Celebration drew 400-500 participants – runners, bikers, walkers, rollers; families with babies and … Read more
Come for the Music: Music by local bands: KT and the Love Notes & The Shipe Duo. Music thanks to a generous donation for music from Emerald Broadband, Eugene’s local choice for faster fiber internet, founded right here in the River Road
The River Road Community Organization (RRCO) invites you to the third annual River Celebration, September 7th from 11 am to 3 pm, on the west bank path of the Willamette River. Our neighborhood enjoys a long stretch of the river and greenway as our east boundary. During the pandemic, the … Read more
As usual, conversations with people who care about our parks, our river and our neighbors are the focus of
RRCO’s 3rd Annual RIVER CELEBRATION
Sept. 7, from 11 am – 3 pm
New this year:
Live 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