Edgemoor Neighborhood Association Newsletter

Next ENA Monthly Meeting - This is an open board meeting and Edgemoor residents are welcome to attend.  

Thursday, September 1, 2005, Fairhaven Park Pavilion,  7-9 PM

Meeting Agenda

Minutes of the August 4 ENA Meeting

ENA President's Update  

Hi everyone, I hope you are all having a wonderful summer.

The September 1st ENA meeting is a business meeting to prepare for our Annual meeting in October which will be held at Lairmont Manor. Topics for the October meeting will include the election of ENA officers, so if anyone is interested in running for a board position let us know. At the October meeting we hope to have the incumbent City council representative for our district and her opponent provide us with their positions on local issues and provide a question and answer period. It is shaping up to be an exciting meeting and I hope you all will turn out for it.

Another item that I personally am interested in is what do the folks of the Edgemoor Neighborhood think of our organization? Where do you feel there could be improvement and how would you suggest going about it, and what do you feel our best attributes are? All suggestions are welcome and appreciated.

I’ll see you all at the next ENA meeting.

Kindest Regards,

Niall Hackett, Interim President

Edgemoor Neighborhood Representative          

Read the August issue of, Just So You Are Aware, from the Mayor's Advisory Committee.

Sherry Miller (Gustafson) sherry@sherryg.net

Association of Bellingham Neighborhoods   

A special meeting has been scheduled for Monday, August 29^th from 7-9 pm at Jones Moles (corner of Lakeway and Woburn). Several representatives from ENA are planning to attend this meeting, so please email comments to Sandie by 5 PM on Monday, August 29. We will take your input to the meeting. The following is an excerpt from the email notice about the meeting from Richard Maneval, President of Association of Bellingham Neighborhoods (ABN).

REQUEST FOR MEETING

We, the undersigned, call for a special ABN meeting, to be held Monday August 29 from 7-9 pm, to consider the ABN responses to

1)     the planning department activities going on without adequate neighborhood notification and input (for example:  amending neighborhood plans without notification in violation of Bellingham Municipal Codes);

2)     the frightening rate of speed at which large projects are being vested before the completion of the City of Bellingham Comprehensive Growth Plan and Critical Areas Ordinance;

among which might be

1)     possible vote of no confidence in the planning director

2)     reaching a consensus of action from all the neighborhood associations

Signed

Myron Wlaznak, Silver Beach Neighborhood Association

Donna Auer, South Hill Neighborhood Association

Marilyn Williams, Lettered Streets Neighborhood Association

Beverly Jacobs, Cordata/Guide Meridian

Steve Wilson, South Neighborhood Association

John Hymas, Happy Valley Association

ENA Committee Highlights

Communications Committee

What a wonderful month of August we have had, full of sun, fun, and those lazy days that we dream about all year long. Summer has flown by but when we look at the calendar we realize that it is nearly time to begin our normal routines. Soon the evenings will be cooler, the crane flies will be out and we will hear the sounds of the school buses in our neighborhood.  Somehow it seems the perfect time to reconnect with our neighbors and begin anew working together to make our neighborhood an even better place to live.  The September ENA meeting is a business meeting, but anyone is welcome to attend. We hope to see all of you at our ENA Annual meeting in October.

Committee Chair, Kathy Kaiser

Growth and Land Use Committee   

NOTICE OF DECISION
The City of Bellingham Planning Director approved Planned Development and Fairhaven Design Review permits for the proposed project listed below on July 22, 2005.

PDC2004-00030 and DRC2004-00030: A 4-5 story mixed use (retail, office, and residential uses) with two levels of underground parking, on a 40,000 square foot site. Property is located at 1440 10th Street, Legally Described as Parcel B, Tennis Club LLA less 5’ McKenzie, Parcel # 370201 070050, Fairhaven Neighborhood, Area 5, zoned Commercial, Planned.

There is an application submitted to build a Parking Garage under McKenzie between 12th and 11th streets. I went to the presentation meeting a couple of months ago and the plans call for an 8' X 8' mechanical shed placed in the middle of McKenzie at 12th St. This building will house the HVAC equipment and an emergency staircase. It is unclear if any of the parking in the garage will be open to the public and who will pay for the long-term maintenance for the structure. The applicants will be required to provide 45 parking spaces during construction. It is not stated how close to Fairhaven these parking spaces will be. I encourage all who are concerned or have questions to write Jackie Lynch (jlynch@cob.org) at the planning Department and ask her the specifics of the project.

DRC2005-15 1314 12th Street

CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT

Cup2005-0010 415 Bayside Road: Request for CUP to construct an oversized single family residence with a total floor area of approximately 6,500 square feet on a 29,111 square foot lot. Property is located a 415 Bayside Road. (Full link will be available on Monday, August 29 at www.cob.org)

Committee Chair, Brad Rose

Hospitality Committee

Laurie Renne

Membership                                                 

Please encourage your friends and neighbors to join the ENA. If you are not already an ENA member and would like to join, visit the membership page on the website for more information. To join ENA, send a check for $15 (per member) along with your name, address, telephone number to Edgemoor Neighborhood Association, PO Box 4420, Bellingham, WA 98227. Include your email address if you wish to receive email notices from the ENA.

Neighborhood Safety Committee                 

Safety Committee Chair: Veronica Douglas:

On The Neighborhood Forum

A question has been posted on the Neighborhood Forum asking residents how they think the Fairhaven Highlands development will impact traffic on Chuckanut Drive.

Please visit the Neighborhood Forum a place for Edgemoor residents to communicate with each other on items of interest.

About www.edgemoorneighborhood.com

The Edgemoor Neighborhood website provides news and information to Edgemoor residents, which has several active  homeowners' associations and organizations. Your stories, photos and feedback are always welcome.

Webmaster, Sandie Koplowitz

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