23rd Avenue Corridor Action Team
23rd Avenue Corridor Action Team
September 8, 2003
Meeting Notes
Attending: Bill, Victor R., Michelle, Sara M., Jess W., Elena, Isabel, Don, Pat Kernighan, Jennie M., Ray C., Dmitri, Eric
Announcements
- Pat K.—annual election for District 2 CDBG board Wednesday, September 17th at Franklin . Would like to get more participation from community groups. Meet once a month. Difficult position if you don’t speak English. Conflict of interest rule: Employee of applicant organization cannot serve on board
- YEP—about to start another round of Youth Build. In subsequent rounds, hope to build in LSA
- SACDC—doing outreach for cross-site survey to African American community. Looking for candidates
Urban Ecology Plan
- Technical difficulties, so don’t have complete plan to hand out
- See draft
- Plan to have a community event to present plan
- September 25 th—Sara will distribute plan. Needs feedback
- Community’s vision is in line with City Council’s general plan
- Challenge: to figure out how to move projects
- Street design issues
- Neighborhood Arts Plaza
- Locate cultural center at one of corners on East 15th and Miller
- Intersection repair
- Draft set of urban guidelines
- How does IURD plan synchronize with UE plan?
- UE working with IURD
- YEP under pressure to develop lots on East 15th for housing. Would like to know if there will be a zoning plan change that will allow mixed use development
- Are zoning changes referred to in plan? In Chapter 4
- Next meeting—October 6 to review UE Plan
- How to make sure there’s continuity in terms of RE and leadership development. How does that get integrated into implementation
Dan Vanderpriem Prep Meeting
- EBAYC research meeting model. Ask simple questions
- Press him to be more specific than he was with Urban Ecology. Show Dan how far group has come, how organized they are. Float examples of projects. Focus on capital projects
- Reminder that we need to refer to plan as 23rd Avenue/LSA plan—not “Urban Ecology Plan.” Put out that we want to see entire plan implemented
- Research meetings designed to:
- Develop leadership skills and capacity of grassroots leaders
- Impress/create an identity as an organized community and political force
- What can you do for this community?
- Part of a larger political strategy—what is long-term political strategy?
- Need an overall political strategy. What’s long-term goal. Helps frame set of questions. Ideally residents should be at this table. David reluctant to bring residents in at this point because it’s an afterthought
- Narrow to a few questions:
- What is ORA’s vision for redevelopment area?
- Sharpen questions so it’s clear when there’s ducking and dodging
- What is time frame?
- What will they put before committees?
- May want to do meetings with representatives from other PACs
- This is the plan
- Pick three projects—how can you fund it?
- Five questions to zero in on it
- We’re in a series of research meetings
- Dan doesn’t know about LSA collaborative
- Set a tone that allows discussion to go deeper. Acknowledge that we’ve already had meetings with him
- Convey overall vision—equitable development
- Welcome: Chair (Jennie & Isabel)
- Credential: Who we are (David)
- Purpose: Chair
- Questions
- Summation: Chair
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