October 2025 Project Update

Curious about what's going on with Urban Growth Strategies? Staff share regular updates that provide relevant project information, milestones, and upcoming opportunities for engagement. For October 2025, project updates include:

• Eugene's Equity Atlas Charts a Path Toward More Inclusive Planning: The Planning Division is proud to announce the launch of its Equity Atlas: Selected Stories in Eugene’s History of Displacement—a research effort that documents how historic land use decisions have shaped today’s patterns of land use and housing access.
• Eugene's Comprehensive Plan Update: Using the feedback staff heard from the community, staff are refining the draft goals and policies, as appropriate. In 2026, staff will be asking the Eugene City Council and Lane County Board of Commissioners to consider adopting the new chapters.
• Draft Eugene Centers and Key Corridors Map: As a result of community input and staff research, the Planning Division has created a draft Centers and Key Corridors map and policies for the Comprehensive Plan.
• Community Input on Housing Actions: To help meet Eugene’s 20-year housing and jobs needs, City staff have proposed a series of housing, compact development, and jobs actions as priorities for City Council adoption in 2026 and 2027. To inform these actions, staff have engaged with housing developers as well as a Community Advisory Panel supporting Urban Growth Strategies.
• 2025 Community Engagement Summary: The 2025 Community Engagement Summary provides an overview of the engagement activities and key takeaways from the past year of community engagement. Staff continued to hear about housing affordability and availability, desired neighborhood qualities, and support for working towards a more equitable future.
• Recent and Upcoming Public Meetings: City Staff will be providing updates on the Urban Growth Strategies project to the Planning Commission on October 28th, 2025, and City Council on November 12, 2025. Then, on November 24, 2025, Planning Division staff will ask the City Council to initiate land use code and plan amendments for Urban Growth Strategies.

Read the full project update for October 2025 here.