1652 Olive St, Eugene, OR 97401

Jefferson Westside Special Area Zone

The overarching purpose of the S-JW zone is to prevent residential infill that would significantly diminish, and to encourage residential infill that would enhance the stability, quality, positive character, livability and natural resources of the encompassed residential areas. More specifically, the purposes of this zone include: Contribute to maintaining and strengthening a high quality urban core environment with compatible commercial and residential development so that people of a variety of incomes and household compositions will desire to live close to the city center and will be able to afford to do so; Protect and maintain these healthy, established, residential areas by ensuring compatible design for residential infill development in terms of lot patterns; uses; development intensity; building mass, scale, orientation and setbacks; open space; impacts of vehicle ownership and use; and other elements; Reinforce and complement positive development patterns identified through a community process conducted by the City-chartered neighborhood association that encompasses the S-JW zone; Accommodate future growth without eroding the areas’ residential character and livability; Promote stability of the neighborhood community by maintaining a balanced mix of single-dwelling, duplex, and multi-dwelling residential development that contributes positively to the predominant residential patterns that arose as the neighborhood was built out. Prevent destabilization that would result from major residential redevelopment.