At the November Edgemoor Neighborhood Association meeting there will be a presentation of the City of Bellingham’s "Waterfront Connections Plan”. This presentation will be similar to the one we had last month from the Port of Bellingham.  This is an opportunity to see the differences between the City and the Port plans and to allow you to formulate your opinion on which plan would be best.   There will also be two Waterfront Connections Public Open Houses (November 13^th and 17th, 7 p.m. at Depot Market Square) that will present the plan and hopefully a method for determining which plan is best and how which one we will use going forward will be determined. 

I encourage everyone to attend. 

Thursday November 6th, 7:00PM at the Fairhaven Park Pavilion. 

Brad Rose

 The MNAC met on October 8 at City Hall.  Items discussed included:

1.  Presentation from the Whatcom Dispute Resolution Center describing their services and how they can help the neighborhoods in dispute resolution.  This is a great resource.

2. Mayor Dan Pike presented the Waterfront Connections Plan that they city has for the new waterfront. (Same presentation will be given at the November ENA meeting!) 

3. Jim McCabe of the Puget Neighborhood presented information on the newly formed Energy Resource Scarcity Peak Oil Taskforce.  This joint taskforce was created in May and is modeled after a similar task force in Portland.   Contact Clare Fogelsong - 778-7900 or cfogelsong@cob.org.

4. The Neighborhood Services Coordinator, Linda Stewart, presented information about the Whatcom 2031 Vision workshops (Already happened) and the impact to the neighborhood services that the shortfall in the 2009 budget will bring about. 

5. MNAC is working out the methodology for reviewing all Proposed Comprehensive Plan amendments that are submitted every December 1.  This is still being worked on…. 

6.  As Always check out the latest Neighborhood News:

http://www.cob.org/news/neighborhoods.aspx

Cheers

Brad Rose

MNAC, Edgemoor

Our goal for 2007-2008 was to update the Edgemoor Neighborhood Plan, originally written in 1981. A Neighborhood Plan Update Committee met over the course of many months and put together an update to the old Edgemoor Neighborhood Plan. The City of Bellingham has recently announced that it will not schedule any neighborhood plan updates in the near future, however, ENA has chosen to continue with the update process.

Below is a link to the draft of the Neighborhood Plan Update. Please read it critically with your concerns involving growth, quality of life, and the needs of the neighborhood in mind. As well as noting whether you think it covers the subjects which need to be addressed, please note where you think the tone, readability and format need to be improved. We have one suggestion already to make each Chapter start on a new page. If you think of something, even if it seems to be a casual concern, note it.  Others are likely to have noticed it also, so do not hesitate to speak up.  If you have a neighbor with an axe to grind or simply skill or knowledge involving planning, land use, editing or composition, please pass it along to them, even if they live in another neighborhood.  Send your comments to me to compile to mhnickerson@yahoo.com.  I will make all of them available to a review group.  If they are in hard copy, send them to:

     Martin Nickerson

    242 Bayside Road

    Bellingham, WA  98225

Edgemoor Neighborhood Plan (1981)

Draft of Edgemoor Neighborhood Plan Update

The Center for Local Self Reliance (CLSR) is a newly formed nonprofit organization with a focus on teaching gardening, food preservation, seed saving, medicinal plant preparation, and other self reliance skills. We are Southside neighbors, builders, gardeners, business owners, and educators who care about our community and see an opportunity to restore the old Fairhaven Rose Garden house and garden, now in disrepair, to good community use. The Bellingham City Council recently granted CLSR a long-term lease of the old Caretaker’s House and Fairhaven Rose Garden grounds. Our goal is to renovate the house to offer gathering spaces and a teaching kitchen where food preparation and preservation will be taught. In addition, the former rose garden will be transformed into educational gardens. Community members of all ages will learn gardening and other self-reliance skills while creating a beautiful gateway to Fairhaven.

We will be selling organic seeds and pots as a fundraiser at A Lot of Flowers in Fairhaven during the Holiday Gallery Walk on November 28 & 29. We also welcome donations, which are tax deductible. Checks should be made payable to AWISH (our temporary 501(c)(3) umbrella) and mailed to CLSR, PO Box 4200, Bellingham, WA 98227. In addition, if you are willing to volunteer to help do clean up work at the Caretaker’s house, please send an email to caretakershouse@gmail.com. We will be looking for volunteers to help with the gardens once the work on the house has made significant progress.

THANKS in advance for your interest and support!