Eugene residents can improve their neighborhoods with grants available from the city. The latest project funded by the neighborhood matching grants program is a wheelchair ramp leading to the top of College Hill Reservoir.

Friendly Street neighbors came up with the idea for an A.D.A ramp to the top of the reservoir. The group wanted access for all people to the popular star-gazing site. Cindy Clarke manages the Neighborhood Matching Grants program. She says the projects vary:

Clarke: “A group of neighbors get together and see a need for a project or a community building event even that they can see has some real community value.”

This year the program has provided funding for an historic documentary. There’s also a project to gather and distribute fruit from neighborhood trees in Bethel. The new funding cycle opens Wednesday. The city of Eugene has up to 50 thousand dollars available in Neighborhood Matching Grants.

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