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]]> The proposals outlined in this report were generated in the collaboration
between the City of Springfield and the University of Oregon Sustainable Cities
Initiative during the fall of 2011. Forty-two students in the Planning, Public Policy,
and Management course entitled “Bicycle Transportation,” taught by Professor
Marc Schlossberg, reviewed and examined critical elements of an urban
bikeway system and proposed projects that would utilize bicycle infrastructure to
encourage bicycle ridership in Springfield.

]]> The Dorris Ranch Business Planning and Strategy Project was created to assess the current situation of the park, identify areas of opportunity, and develop a strategy that would improve the park’s awareness, usage and long term revenue. Students were tasked to research and recommend new events and programs, as well as improvements involving marketing, signage, existing programs and events, and visitor experience that would improve the overall goals and well-being of Dorris Ranch. The project was designed to be scalable and address the most important concerns first to ensure the Dorris Ranch’s long-term success.

]]> The City of Springfield faces deteriorating street conditions due to a steady
decline in transportation funding. The City believes a possible solution to this
problem is to improve its local streets with funding from residential property
assessments. However, to encourage property owners to bear the costs of
improving roads, the City would like to better understand the value of local street
improvements. This paper surveys the existing literature on amenity valuation
and infrastructure investment and proposes a hedonic price regression to
estimate the impact local street conditions have on residential house prices. Our
results suggest better street conditions have a positive effect on Springfield
house prices when property values exceed a minimum sales price threshold.
Based on these findings, we conduct a cost-benefit analysis of local street
improvements and suggest additional considerations for the City of Springfield.

]]> The City of Springfield is interested in learning about its current environmental
impacts and ways that it might improve its environmental footprint in the future.
The students of University of Oregon course PPPM 607: Energy and Climate
Change researched three topics—buildings, electricity, and transportation—
related to the City of Springfield’s influence on energy use, climate emissions,
and quality of life of the community. Based on this research, groups of students
made recommendations in these three areas for how the City of Springfield
could reduce environmental impacts.

]]> Springfield believes that most pollution by residents can be attributed to a lack of
awareness and have tasked this class of Journalism and Communications
students to conduct a public relations campaign and make recommendations on
which characteristics of the Adopt-A-Waterway program would be most
appealing to residents.
This report contains a Strategic Public Relations Plan and a Research Report.
The Public Relations Plan highlights key publics, objectives, strategies, and
tactics for five groups: (1) middle school science teachers and student group
faculty advisers, (2) high school group leaders and student group faculty
advisers, (3) church group leaders, (4) service group leaders, and (5) Springfield
residents

]]> In this paper, we measure statistical relationships between characteristics of
incoming kindergartners and initial literacy scores. Our analysis includes eight
elementary schools, four of which are Promise Neighborhood schools in Lane
County: Two Rivers-Dos Rios Elementary (formerly Brattain) and Maple
Elementary in the Springfield School District plus Fairfield Elementary and
Malabon Elementary from the Bethel School District. Our control group includes
comparable schools that are not part of the Promise Neighborhoods in each
district. Using scores from the literacy benchmark tests each incoming student
takes upon entering kindergarten–controlling for certain variables–we find
characteristics with the largest coefficients, making them most likely to have a
relationship that influences literacy scores. This provides useful information for
program planning and spending in the Promise Neighborhoods. Using the
statistical relationships discovered in our analysis, and some we felt would be
useful for study if available, we suggest variables on which to collect data for
future assessments. This data will be collected through a questionnaire given out
with kindergarten registration packets. We also include a literature review
focusing on the importance of children entering school prepared to learn. The
emphasis in these studies is on both literacy skills and social-emotional
development prior to kindergarten, as well as the benefits associated with early
childhood development program investment.

]]> During the Fall 2011 academic term at the University of Oregon, six groups of
students in an architecture design studio worked with the City of Springfield to
develop six approaches for redevelopment of the former Waremart site at the
intersection of Mohawk Boulevard and Centennial Boulevard. The City of Springfield had goals for the site to be sustainably redeveloped and
to catalyze the redevelopment of adjacent sites. This report documents the student groups’ research of existing conditions, the
various approaches to the site’s redevelopment, and the groups’ final design
proposals.

Read the final student report delivered to the local gov/community partner.

Sustainable City Year Program Contact Info
Megan Banks
Sustainable City Year Program Manager
mbanks@uoregon.edu
(541) 346-6395

University Faculty Contact
Nico Larco
Architecture

nlarco@uoregon.edu

Local Government / Community Contact
Courtney Griesel

Economic Development Director
cgriesel@springfield-or.gov

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