These meetings are held at the City of Eugene Planning and Development Department, 99 West 10th Avenue.

Designers, contractors and property owners schedule consultation meetings to obtain information on requirements related to building and land use permits. The meetings are scheduled and paid for by an applicant and are not public meetings as defined by Oregon Statutes (ORS 192). They are open to the public only at the discretion of the applicant.

Application materials are available for review at the Permit & Information Center (99 West 10th Avenue) between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday. Please call ahead, 682-5505, so that materials can be located in advance for viewing. Copies can be obtained at cost.
The documents that are submitted usually are preliminary. Sufficient information may not have been submitted for staff to answer all
questions from the public, and interested persons may wish to contact the applicant directly.

Limited consultation meetings scheduled for areas within the Churchill Area Neighborhood.

In conjunction with this city process parents at McCornack Elementary and Kennedy Middle, and the Arts and Technology Academy at Jefferson Schools are developing a “Safe Routes to School” proposal. Marina Hajek is leading the effort at McCornack. Several parents are organizing the Kennedy project including; Debi Cornell and Michelle Couts. Jonathan Ohlsen-Johnson, the parent chair of the ATA Site Council will lead the effort there.

Learn more at; http://www.saferoutespartnership.org/oregon?tid=21841 or http://www.oregon.gov/ODOT/TS/saferoutes.shtml

This SRTS process requires quite a bit of data collection to meet the federal standards required to be awarded a grant. We need people who will walk various bike and pedestrian routes to school and note on a checklist any hazards that exist. Any volunteers will be most welcome. Contact the people named above.

 Walkability Survey

Bikability Survey 

Neighbors,

The City of Eugene Neighborhood Matching Grant program is in full swing.

Details and applications can be found on the City's website:

http://www.eugene-or.gov/matchinggrants

Please note that proposals must be endorsed by the Churchill Area Neighbors before being submitted to the City. Since we only have one regularly scheduled meeting before the CIty's scheduled deadline, you may bring your proposal to the January meeting, or alternately contact us through the website and we will make arrangements to view your proposal before the deadline.

 

Please see attached documents. 

"Your vacation should be a pleasant experience for you and your family.
returning to a home that has been burglarized is a very unpleasant homecoming.
Your time away can be more enjoyable and carefree when you know your home is being watched."

The City of Eugene "Seniors on Patrol" program offers a free home check service while you are away. You will need to complete the attached form and get it to the Eugene Police at least a week before the start of your vacation. However, if you cannot do that, the brochure has a few tips to minimize the chances of an unpleasant homecoming.

 

As we discuss ways to maintain or improve the livability of existing neighborhoods along the proposed EMX West Eugene corridor, these are examples of problems and suggestions to encourage pedestrian travel rather than cars or bikes use as current policies and funding now do. Making it easy to walk to or between businesses, EMX or LTD stations will encourage foot traffic and public transportation use while reducing car traffic. Statutes need to be developed to have the true costs of Infill housing impacts be born by the projects themselves, not by the residents who are left with the increased vehicular traffic. I believe the EMX routing and Infill housing are intertwinded.

#1 Example: Over 20 years, within a west Eugene neighborhood, the City approved 13 separate new or expanded apartment complexes or dense single family dwellings and Acorn Park Road became their primary or secondary access. None of those developments were compelled to assist paying for sidewalks between their developments and Acorn Park itself or provide non-vehicular access to nearby businesses or LTD’s Seneca Station. Safe sidewalks could have reduced the impacts of additional the 300 vehicles gradually added to this neighborhood. Acorn Park Rd is the only vehicle access point north across the Amazon canal between Oakpatch and Bailey Hill road a distance of nearly 10 blocks. Each of these “Infill” projects on its own wasn’t a big problem but their total now is. The City’s unacceptable solution is for the 24 single family homes along the route to pay $125-150/ linear foot ($15,000 each) for those sidewalks as the current statute required 50% of sidewalks be done at the time the developments are approved. This is simply not fair and does not charge developers the true cost of developments.

Pete Sorenson, Lane County Commissioner came and talked with the Churchill Area Neighbors about current issues confronting Lane County Governments. Below is the question and answer session that took place. It is based off of the minutes taken by the meeting's note taker with additional comments from Pete Sorenson in CAPITAL LETTERS.

Pete talked about Lane County Govt. -CAN interest - Lane County -listening tours, 5 two hour meetings in Lane county are being held to determine what's important to folks. What should happen to the LC fairgrounds? This is to be specifically discussed during the Listening Tour. Considering the purchase of land (200 acres) in Golden Gardens using a bond, and selling the 50 acres of current Lane County Fair grounds is on. Mid Jan - mid Feb, 5 regional meetings will be held - the closes to the CAN area will be held at the Lane County Fair Grounds - to discuss this.

Resources

Map of Acorn Park Road

Acorn Park Street Traffic Calming Project Information and Details

Acorn Park Street traffic calming project Workshop #1 Report

City of Eugene’s Acorn Park Street Traffic Calming Project CAN Forum

A follow up meeting will be held on Wednesday, November 14 at McCornack Elementary School from 7:00pm to 9:00pm.

Letters and Memorandums

Memorandum from Mark Schoening, City Engineer, to Mayor Torrey and City Council Dec. 8, 2004

 

 

The New Lancer Parent Association at Churchill High School

Last year the CHS Boosters reorganized into the Lancer Parent Association (LPA) and adopted new By-laws with an emphasis on communication with parents. LPA is free and open to any interested parent or guardian of a CHS student. LPA is a great way to connect to CHS administration, to sports and clubs, and to other parents. Principal Dennis Biggerstaff attends LPA meetings along with representatives from sports teams and clubs and Site Council. We are lucky to have this forum to connect and discuss school topics that affect your student. Meetings are held the first school Monday of each month in the Churchill High School library.

LPA is continuing a great tradition that the Boosters started which is to have a speaker at each meeting. Meetings will start at 6:30 p.m. for business, with speakers beginning at 7:00 p.m. In response to the tragic accident that took place on Bailey Hill Road in August, we are dedicating one meeting to discussing the parents’ role in encouraging safe driving. This meeting will be held in April when one of our speakers, Bob Bruce, is available. Bob is the driver’s education teacher that many Churchill students have had or will have if they participate in Oregon Driver Training Institute classes.

This is the schedule of meetings and planned topics for the next few months:

December 3:  Dennis Biggerstaff and Amy Adams-Shauer discuss education options available at CHS including CAM, IB, IB diploma, college credit through college now, AP classes and AP testing which may include college credit, and other options including LCC
January 14: teen alcohol and drug use
Feb 11: to be announced
March 3:  to be announced
April 7:  teen drivers and what parents can do encourage their teens to be good drivers. Driving Instructor Bob Bruce will be the speaker.
May 5: to be announced

WANTED: Churchill Area Neighborhood residents who care about a newsletter, and who would like to provide articles, editing, photographs and/or drawings. The main way the City of Eugene supports our neighborhood association is by funding printing and postage for this kind of publication. Please help our neighborhood and have fun. CAN will accommodate your busy schedule.

If you are interested in participating, create an account today. To get started click here.

Past Newsletters

Click here for the agenda

Neighbors,

It looks as if the Lane Regional Air Protection Agency (LRAPA) approved Hynix's permit to increase its release of hydrogen fluoride.

Here is a Eugene Weekly Article by Camilla Mortense

Here is the Hynix Semiconductor Manufacturing Permit (PDF)

Here is the Hynix Permit Review Report (PDF)

Here is the LRAPA Hynix Permit Responses to Comments (PDF)

The next BHRSC discussion will be on November 28th. Stay tuned for more information.

The Bailey Hill Road Safety Committee (BHRSC) was formed in response to the terrible accident that took place on Bailey Hill Road near Churchill High School, on August 27, 2007. Initiated by Julia Pommert and with help from Dennis Biggerstaff, Churchill High School principal, the first meeting was held on September 12, 2007 with the belief that if children appear to be at risk in our neighborhood, then, adults must try to make the area safer.

Julia is just one of the many Churchill residents to show concern for the traffic hazards that exist on parts of the Bailey Hill Road. When she began gathering information about the area, she found that many individuals, including the school principals of the area, the Churchill HS head secretary, the Churchill Community Safety officer, and local firefighters had all been lobbying for several years to have this area made safer.

Ever wish there was something you could do to help slow down drivers who
speed through your neighborhood? There is!

The City of Eugene uses the three E's: enforcement - engineering -
education, to help deal with this neighborhood safety and livability
issue. You've seen the motorcycle cops (enforcement) and traffic
calming features such as speed humps and bump-outs (engineering). You
can be part of the education program. Neighborhood Services and the
Police Department work together to sponsor a volunteer radar program.
Volunteers are trained to use radar guns to measure vehicle speed, and
working with another volunteer, collect other information about the
incident. A letter from the appropriate Neighborhood Association is
sent to the registered owner of the vehicle sharing the information and
asking them to slow down.

Over the years that we have sponsored this program, we have received
letters such as the following: "Thank you for your time and energy in
regards to the speed of which I was driving on February 3rd. I have
driven more carefully and have taken better note of posted speed limits.
Please accept my apologies as I don't believe it should happen again."

There is a training session for new volunteers scheduled for Saturday,
July 15th, from 10 a.m. until about 1 p.m. The class is held at the 2nd
and Chambers training center used by the Police and Fire Departments.

If you would like to attend the training, learn to use the radar guns,
and volunteer for the program, please contact Lisa Barrong at
(541) 682-8248

Beginning at 8:30 a.m. Monday, July 30, Morse Bros. is scheduled to close the west half of the existing asphalt intersection at Bailey Hill Road and 18th Avenue and begin reconstructing the intersection with a concrete surface. It will take a week for the first concrete section to cure, and then the work will shift to the east side of the intersection.

During that two-week period, the intersection will be closed to all east-west through traffic and vehicles will be directed to use alternate routes. Bailey Hill Road will remain open, and north- and southbound traffic will be channeled through the open half of the intersection.

The rebuilt intersection should be fully reopened by August 13, and the remainder of the work will focus on constructing a new asphalt surface on Bailey Hill Road from 11th to 18th Avenues and 18th Avenue from Bailey Hill Road to City View Street.