B. Development of Council Vision for Eugene Councilors wrote down individual vision statements, broke into small groups to organize the statements, and reconvened to review the statements. Mr. Laue said the lists would be sent electronically to each councilor prior to the second day of the mission session. In the best possible world, Eugene will be a town notable as a community with a sense of community which reaches out to solve the problems of poverty, is a model of excellence with cultural, sports, and other opportunities and traditions available for people with a wide variety of interests, that strives for working-class internationalism and provides a community of caring and nurturing support for children and neighbors, and City support for those unable to care for themselves. In the best possible world, Eugene will be a place with free recreational and educational opportunities, where children receive the best public education, with adults who meaningfully relate to and support teens and young adults, and a place with lifelong learning. In the best possible world, Eugene will be a place which interweaves the natural and built environment, reflects the creation of a network of developed and undeveloped parks that are designed to enhance and protect existing water resources and ensures the presence of local farms sufficient to feed the populace.
Population is supported by clean air, pure water, and intact ecosystems.
In the best possible world, Eugene will be a place where there is health care for all, with a peoples' hospital, and where drug use is treated as a public health issue and television is treated as a mental health issue. In the best possible world, Eugene will be a place where we make the wisest possible use of our urban land by promoting compact urban development, redevelopment of urbanized land, and through a policy of limiting population growth to the area's carrying capacity. In the best possible world, Eugene will be a place of unique, identifiable walking neighborhoods which promote neighborliness, each with physical and social structures that the neighborhood identifies with, including such appropriate programs as neighborhood gardens, composting, and solar power. In the best possible world, Eugene will be a city which plans for parks to meet our needs now and in the future, which maintains parks to meet our personal needs for quiet, tranquility, and communion with nature, and our social needs for places to gather and places to play. In the best possible world, Eugene will be a place with transportation policies and systems that work and involve alternative modes of transportation that include street cars and frequent passenger train service in the Cascadia Corridor, resulting in no intracity cars and 80 percent less autos.