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 Spoke to fact that current plans are very much out of date.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