City: Neighborhood Planning program progressing A pair of Amarillo City Council members delivered a Neighborhood Planning Oversight Committee report during the council's virtual regular session, sharing insight regarding the plan's progress. Per the city's website, the Neighborhood Planning initiative was created via a 2016 interlocal agreement between the city of Amarillo and Potter County to aid revitalization of some of the city's older neighborhoods through the development of area-specific plans. The city and neighborhoods collaborate to identify concerns, opportunities, a vision, goals and project priorities and the four participating neighborhoods are North Heights, Barrio, San Jacinto and Eastridge. "The Eastridge plan has gotten off the ground," said councilwoman Elaine Hays, who joined fellow councilwoman Freda Powell in providing the update. "They've had their first remote, virtual meeting. It does change your dynamic and changes a little bit of the numbers. Maybe some of the quantity of participation was less, but the quality of participation was really great. They have nine strong volunteers that are willing to serve and start working on this neighborhood plan. It was a great background of diversification — just a lot of different voices speaking into this community."