Eugene Mayor Kitty Piercy is a featured guest at tonight’s West University Neighbors meeting and will discuss her ideas to improve neighborhood relations and answer questions about city issues.
The 7 p.m. meeting is at the Central Presbyterian Church on the corner of 15th Avenue and Patterson Street.
University Planning Director and Architect Chris Ramey is slated to speak about the Long Range Campus Development Plan, which is in the final stages of its first update since 1991.
The University’s relationship with the rest of the Eugene community is a subject the neighborhood association’s meetings frequently addressed. West University Neighbors chair Drix Rixmann said he hopes Ramey’s presence will create constructive dialogue about this relationship and will address any concerns residents may have.
Ward 3 City Councilor David Kelly will also attend to give his monthly update on current and future happenings in the Eugene City Council.
Tonight’s meeting is the last meeting before students become consumed with thoughts of summer, Rixmann said, and he hopes students will take advantage of the opportunity to meet the mayor and about the University’s development plans.
“We’re supposed to be a forum where people can meet and connect, and what better way to do that than bring in the big guns and have people meet and connect with them,”
Rixmann said.
— Meghann M. Cuniff