Community Advisory Team
Community members attend a public presentation of the design concept

A nine-member Community Advisory Team (CAT) appointed by the EWEB Board of Commissioners and the Eugene City Council is working with Rowell Brokaw Architects to create a draft master plan for the redevelopment of EWEB's riverfront property.

The CAT was selected to represent various communities of interest and a diversity of public opinion. EWEB Commissioners appointed five members of the CAT; the City Council appointed four members. All CAT members were required to be EWEB customers or citizens of Eugene.

The EWEB Board of Commissioners will consider the CAT's recommendations, along with other public input, prior to adopting a Riverfront Master Plan that will then be forwarded to the City of Eugene for approval.

Read the Community Advisory Team ground rules (Adopted Oct. 8, 2008)

Community Advisory Team members
  • Anita Van Asperdt
  • Dave Hauser
  • Thomas H. Hoyt
  • Mark Johnson
  • Pat Johnston
  • Desiree Moore
  • J. Dean Pape
  • Mary Unruh
  • Gary Wildish
2009-10 CAT meeting and public event schedule

Public participation is critical to the goal of creating community support and consensus for a Riverfront Master Plan.

All project meetings and events are open to the community including four public events and all Community Advisory Team and EWEB Board of Commissioner meetings. See the schedule below.

CAT meetings are typically scheduled on the second and fourth Wednesdays of the month at 5:30 p.m. in EWEB's North Building, 500 East Fourth Avenue in Eugene.

See also:


Date Meeting
May 27, 2009 Discuss project schedule and project launch
June 24 Discuss and approve public engagement plan
July 8 Discuss vision, opportunities and constraints
July 22 Discuss use scenarios and development 101
August 10-12 Site ecology and sustainable urbanism focus groups
August 12 Discuss goals and preliminary project parameters
August 26 Discuss project goals and program concepts
September 9 Approve project parameters and scenarios, prep update for Board
September 15 EWEB Board Meeting: Present draft concepts to EWEB Board for review and revision*
September 23 Prep for project kick-off and public event #1
September 30 Public Event #1*
Project kick-off, 6-8:30 p.m.
October 3 Visioning Charrette – in collaboration with the Southwest Chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA-SWO)
October 14 Discuss design cycle #1 options
October 28 TBD
November 10 Public event #2*
Present multiple design options, 6-8:30 p.m.
November 11 Debrief public meeting #2
November 18 Determine design direction for design cycle #2
December 9 Review revised design option
January 13, 2010 Prep for presentation of revised design option to EWEB Board
January 27 Review and approve road and open space framework
Preview stormwater strategies and building heights and massing
February 10 Riparian ecology, building heights and massing
February 16 EWEB Board Meeting: Present revised design option ("Combined Concepts") to EWEB Board*
February 24 Compare single framework again CAT Guiding Principles
March 3 Public event #3*
Design review, 7-8:30 p.m., Eugene Hilton, 66 E. Sixth Ave.,
March 4 or 10 Debrief public event #3 with design team
Review Master Plan document outline and template
March 24 TBD
April 14 Discuss recommended design guidelines
Discuss recommended phasing and uses
April 28 CAT approval of all Memorandum of Understanding requirements
Prepare for presentation to Board for approval
May 2010 Presentation of "Final Concept" to Board for approval (tentative: May 4)
Public Event #4 - Master Plan Open House (tentative date: May 12)
June 2010 Presentation of master plan to Board for approval (early June)
  *Specified in Memorandum of Understanding

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