Visit the SCCG web page at http://santaclaracommunitygarden.org/

The SantaClara Community Organization has partnered with Huerto de la Familia and St. Matthews Episcopal Church and created a new community garden in Santa Clara. There are families gardening as we speak!

The Santa Clara/River Road Outreach and Learning Project has completed its comprehensive outreach after more than a year.  The group devoted more than 2000 man hours and had more than 700 face-to-face conversations with neighbors in the River Road and Santa Clara areas.  The final report is being published this month (June, 2012) and will be available for the public at the Santa Clara and River Road Community Organization meetings at their July meetings.  One of the recommendations is for the two groups to continue working together in the future toward implementation of the c

The next meeting of the Executive Board is March 7, 2013.  All are welcome to attend and participate.                           7:00 p.m. at Messiah Lutheran Church (3280 River Road)

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The Santa Clara Community Organization joins with the River Road Community Organization in a grant from the City Of Eugene Neighborhood Services.  The grant is called the Strategic Neighborhood Assessment and Planning grant (SNAP).  Both groups have been working together for the the last 10 months in a comprehensive education and outreach project to both neighborhoods.  This will be the opening phase of an action plan for the community to address concerns in the areas of transportation, land use, governance, and parks and recreation and any other issue that rises as a concern

The origin of Spring Creek is not known.  Today it begins not far from Spring Creek Elementary School and flows relatively north; though in past decades, maps show it starting much farther south.  Spring Creek is part of the Upper Willamette Valley flood plain, including Willamette River tributaries. (See Attachment)

Santa Clara is a community of 4242 acres on the northern fringe of the City of Eugene, Oregon. It began its existence as a sleepy outpost farming community and officially became Santa Clara in 1890 when Colonel A.J. Straight bought a large chunk of land here and named it after his home in California. The area’s identity became attached to Eugene as large suburban development began here between 1960 and 1975. Today there are about 20,231residents and about 53% of the area is incorporated with the City of Eugene.