Edgemoor
Neighborhood Association
Monthly
Business Meeting
Minutes
The
Monthly Business Meeting of Edgemoor Neighborhood Association was called to
order at
The
minutes of the November meeting were approved as recorded with the addition of
Brad Johnson’s name as Co-Chair for Neighborhood Safety.
Report of
Officers
Treasurer, Lois Miles
reported that we had no disbursements or income this month. She also mentioned she had contacted Copy
Source to check cost for the Neighborhood Mail-out.
President’s Report – Lauri
thanked everyone for their continued support and reminded the members that we
are still looking for a President.
Election would be in February and until then the Board would rotate
facilitation of meetings.
MNAC
Report – Welcome back Brad! Brad copied me with the following MNAC
report:
The
MNAC met on November 8th at City Hall.
This month
we were visited by our new mayor Tim Douglas. He outlined his priorities for
his year in office. These are:
1. Importance of updating neighborhood plans.
Spoke to fact that current plans are very much out of date. Process Tim Stewart
and staff have provided should be very helpful in assisting with plan updates.
2. Waterfront Redevelopment –Central waterfront
represents enormous opportunity for city. Lively discussion is needed. Counting
on neighborhood representatives to push constructive discussion.
3.
4. City/
We
then had a presentation form Marty Mulholland, Janice Keller and Nicole Oliver
about the new look of the City of Bellingham’s web site. Included in the new
look is a new Neighborhood web page section. In it, each neighborhood has its
own space where links to relevant city planning documents/maps are available.
Have a look at Edgemoor’s section and let Cheri Gleichman (CGleichman@cob.org)
know if there is any incorrect information.
Link
to neighborhood section:
http://www.cob.org/pcd/planning/neighborhoods/neighborhoods.htm
City
staff notified us that they are at the beginning of the process of updating the
Development codes; having issued an RFQ for a consultant to help with initial
process of reformatting the code to make it easier for all to use - I'll keep
you posted on their progress
Check out
this month’s “Just So You Are Aware”…..so that you are Aware!
Thanks
Brad
Rose
At this time Brad continued into his Neighborhood
Growth report. He stated that
Ted Mischaikov had resubmitted a design for the Fairhaven Harbor project. That reopened the process for design
review. A lengthy general discussion
followed that included a letter Fairhaven Neighbors drafted for CSN in a quest
for dialog between developers, city planning dept. and the community. Pam Went read the letter to the members for
approval. Martin Nickerson also
presented a letter opposing the development that he drafted for possible ENA
endorsement. Brad reiterated that the
project was up for design review and
growth issues may not be relevant.
Sandie offered a reminder that ENA had made a decision to be an
informative association and therefore should not take a stand, but letters
could be posted on the ENA Blog for all to view. Individuals were encouraged to submit
comments concerning Fairhaven Harbors redesign.
In the end, it was agreed that the Board could consider endorsement of
the CSN letter because it was simply a request
to open communication concerning development on the south side. The CSN letter would be emailed to the board
members for review and vote.
Reports of Committees
Safety – Lois
reported in Don and Brad’s absence that Neighborhood Safety planned to continue
to focus on the possibility of sidewalks along Fieldston to Willow, concern for
the 3-way junction at Hawthorne, Fieldston, and Briar Road, the Block Watch
program, and safety within the neighborhood.
Planning
Academy It was suggested that we use our time at monthly meetings to work on
updating the neighborhood plan. John Erickson and Martin Nickerson responded
that meeting once a month might not be effective especially if other business
took precedence. It would be in our best
interest to have a committed group meet once a week to concentrate on updating
the plan. It was also suggested that a
good opportunity to reintroduce the Neighborhood Plan Update Committee would be
in the mail-out planned in January.
Kathy offered that it would be best to come up with a specific date to
advertise the first meeting in February.
Representative Reports
CSN – Pam Went
read a letter from CSN earlier in the meeting.
Discussion took place at that time.
She also brought up a letter earlier in the evening from CSN concerning
waterfront development that was motioned and approved at the October meeting.
ABN – Pam offered
that Richard Maneval has resumed presidency of ABN. She also mentioned that Larry Horowitz
hearing was coming up concerning his challenge of incorrect growth statistics
used in the Growth Management Act.
Responsible Development – RD has a
2007 fund-raising calendar for sale and a kick off planned for the New Year on
January 9th at WECO on Holly Street.
New
Business
Guest – Steve
Wilson, President of South Neighborhood Association, attended our meeting to
suggest a join venture with ENA to restore the house that is located in the old
Fairhaven Park Rose Garden. It could
require both neighborhoods apply for grant money offered by the city. The idea needs work - it was suggested he
send details to Sandie to post on the website for review.
Closing
Meeting
was adjourned at 8:50 pm.
The
next meeting scheduled will be an Edgemoor
Neighborhood Association Business Meeting to be held from 7-9 on January 11th at Fairhaven
Park Pavilion. *Please note the change in meeting date from
Jan 4th to Jan. 11th. Business
meetings are open to all residents and we encourage you to attend.
Respectfully
Submitted,
Lauri
Grove