23rd Avenue Corridor Action Team

23^rd Avenue Corridor Action Team
May 12, 2003
Meeting Notes

Attending: Don, Andy Nelsen, Margaretta Linn (EBCLC), Pat C., Bill W., Fernando, Wendy, Eric, Jennie, Deb M., Elena, Jocelyn Combs

Announcements & Quick Business

• Jazz festival on Saturday, May 17
• Working with tenants at Renaissance Plaza who are being evicted
  • Press conference on Wednesday, 11 a.m., at Renaissance Plaza
• SDS Team
  • Capital improvement project at San Antonio Park
  • Franklin School focus
  • 23rd Avenue Corridor—how to dovetail with Urban Ecology
    • Intersection and traffic issues
    • Will keep pressure on the city to make sure improvements happen
    • Need to determine short- and long-term plans
  • Tree wells have been cut, some have been planted along 23rd
  • In April Parks & Recreation came to PAC meeting to get input on park improvements

Planning Committee Retreat Debrief

ESAA Update

• Working with ArtHouse to help groups figure out space needs
• Exploring various properties that are available
• Met with Northern California Loan Fund
• Site development committee
• If we reach consensus on how community building agenda is fed by an arts and cultural center
• Long-range goal is ownership
• Margaretta—connect with Northern California Land Trust
• Garcia Building is a possibility. Worth pursuing
• If ten-year vision is to have an arts center, what are steps to get us there
  • Step A: ESAA builds its own organizational capacity

Next Steps

• Review retreat notes
• Decide how to move work forward
• Develop work plan
• Figure out relationships between work groups and ESAA
• Figure out how to incorporate into Urban Ecology Plan

Legal Technical Assistance Needs

• Margaretta Linn handed out pamphlet on home repairs
  • Should have pamphlet at jazz festival
  • Print summary in the San Antonio Unity
• Margaretta will talk to Isabel about holding workshops on tenant rights and home repairs
• How to gather information about legal support needs?

Urban Ecology Planning Process

• Planning on workshop with Garfield parents on streetscapes in June
• Focus groups in next couple of months
  • NCPC
  • Merchants
  • Others
• Flesh out streetscape issues
• School district still pursuing school sites
• Question about whether this school will benefit LSA
• Write a letter to school board and city to let them know that we’re working on plan

Library

• City looking for library site in LSA
• Libraries talking to school district about co-location
• Costs of Miller Library site are prohibitive
• Does the collaborative want to do anything
• Library could be included in redevelopment plan?
• Urban Ecology with Pedestrian Safety project in city last week and will meet with Public Works
• Community priority is Garfield school area

Redevelopment Process

• Implementation plan passed by PAC
• Plan doesn’t have specifics
  • Will have attachments at end listing projects that came up with at community meetings
• Equitable development language not included in plan—will need to be brought up on a project-by-project basis
• Allocation of TIF money in first five years
  • Certain dollar amounts allocated to broad categories
• City will promote projects
  • Neighborhood groups will have projects with developers in place
  • Don’t know how city will resolve conflicting priorities
  • Money won’t flow into city until winter of 2004
  • Oak to Ninth is the big project in this area

What Is Our Strategy

• Decisions will not be made with PAC but with Danny and Ignacio and redevelopment staff

Media Plan

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