The Growth and Land Use Committee held
it second meeting on Wednesday Nov 17.
The meeting consisted of the members discussing various issues that have
come up during the past month and others that are ongoing.
The first topic of conversation was to
try and form a “Southside Coalition” consisting of representatives of the 5
Southside neighborhoods. This coalition
would be an organization that would keep all of the Southside neighborhood
associations abreast of items that may affect them. We decided to propose to the membership a
motion to allow us to pursue creation of this coalition and to have represent
ivies from the ENA be apart of it.
The second item we discussed was the
potential closure of the Fairhaven Library due to city budget shortfalls. We want to propose to the membership that the
ENA support continued operations of the Library.
We then moved into discussing the
various land/development issues that have popped up in recent days and
months. The main two topics were the
recent sale of the Chuckanut
Near the end of the meeting, we figured
out that the updating of the Neighborhood Plan would not be able to be worked
on during this meeting and subsequent meetings that involve discussions of
growth issues. We decided to propose to
the membership that we split the Growth and Land Use Committee into the
original 2 committees (Growth and Land Use & Neighborhood Plan
Update). We felt that having a group
that meets just to discuss updating the neighborhood plan would produce quicker
results so that we can present a new version to the membership for approval. Splitting the committee will also give the
Growth side more meeting time to focus on those issues.
If the separation of the committee is
approved, the Neighborhood Plan Update meeting will be at 7:00 pm on Wednesday
December 8. The meeting will be held at 224 Bayside Pl. The next Growth and Land Use meeting will be
at 7:00 pm on Tuesday Dec. 14 at 108 Briza Ct. For
the next meeting we are trying to get someone from the planning department to
attend and educate us on the Planning and Implementation process of
developments. We encourage participation from anyone that wants to help.
Included is a list of the 4 proposals
we will be submitting to the membership on the December 2nd meeting.
1. Approve the participation of the ENA
in the formation of a Southside Coalition to coordinate with other Southside neighborhoods
to respond to important issues of common concern. The President or the
President’s designee will be the contact person The contact person may change
depending on the issue or project –ex.
If it’s a social event held with the other neighborhood groups we may
have the membership committee organized it – if it concerns Fairhaven issues
someone from the Growth and Land Use committee would be the contact.
2. Support the continued operation of
the Fairhaven Library as center for education and learning and as a community
center for the Southside neighborhoods.
3. Request the ENA to budget $200.00
for use by the Growth and Land Use Committee for printing and other
miscellaneous costs related to the activities of the Committee.
4. Request ENA approval to divide the
Growth and Land Use Committee into the Original 2 committees that were
established at the beginning of the ENA.
These committees are the Growth and Land Use Committee and the
Neighborhood Plan Update Committee.