CRIME UPDATE
There was a burglary in the neighborhood performed by two of our own neighbors. I wont mention names, click HERE and you can check the address and figure it out.
EPA update-
Shea Jones from the EPA is tentatively scheduled 3/10/09 to give an EPA update to our neighborhood. She may also be doing a presentation for the City Council.
I have personally requested City Council and staff to consider adding a new zoning option available to our city named "Parks". "Parks" zoning could have various limitations conducive to a park, not, say-- a Home Depot. If the ACW site in our neighborhood was rezoned "Parks" then we would stand a much better chance of the site becoming what is listed on our city's web site as "Recommended Reuse Alternative". Click HERE and look at Section 7 to see the city's design for the site. This was chosen out of the 10 Alternatives of the Cities Conceptual Reuse Plan. If that is the plan, then we should get ready to move in that direction.
At the last EPA update meeting Shea Jones informed us that a Ethanol company had asked the EPA if they could buy the property. I don't know about you but that scared me! The ACW site is currently zoned M-2 Industrial, perfect for an Ethanol plant.
The land at The ACW site is scheduled to be turned over after remediation around 2013 but there are no funds for a park on the ACW site currently. So I have also requested that the City consider altering the Parks budget that has been set through 2017 to include the ACW site.
The City also assures me that they will pursue acquiring the land now, so that after the remediation process is complete they will be ready. I have been told that City staff will help us with this process as well as help us with the EPA.
The sign at the new community center-
David Flaherty with the parks department wanted me to get feedback on the proposed name on the sign for the new community center. It would read "Sanders Beach-Corrine Jones Community Center". It may also contain below that "The Den" as the location has been nicknamed for many, many years. He explained that the FEMA and insurance funds from the destroyed and never-to-be-rebuilt Corrine Jones center will be used at our center thus the addition of her namesake.
Please send me an e-mail - blakeandlaura@home.gccoxmail.com - and give me your feedback to pass along to Mr. Flaherty.
Thank you for your time and attention,
Highest Regards,
Blake Jochum
Sanders Beach Community Association-Chair
