From winterety at sbcglobal.net Tue Dec 7 20:25:23 2004 From: winterety at sbcglobal.net (sheryl lynn gerety) Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2004 20:25:23 -0800 Subject: [OldNorth] ONDNA Nov 2004 Meeting Minutes Message-ID: <2D9FD449-48D1-11D9-84BE-00039370746A@sbcglobal.net> Minutes of Old North Davis Neighborhood Association November 18, 2004 ONDNA President Bruce Winterhalder called the meeting to order at 7:30 PM. Present were: Meredith Glaser, Leila Heintzelman, Peter Gunther, Steve Tracy, Valerie Vann, Kathleen Groody, Tony Martin, LuAnn Boys and Heather Richardson. The meeting was conducted without a quorum because only three board members were present; as a consequence, no official actions were taken, the meeting being informational. First order of business was Winterhalder?s call to celebrate approval of the special parking district for Old North. ON was commended by City Council members for its creative approach, for respecting the many interests that use of city streets involves, and for doing the work with City staff necessary to make a nonstandard district possible. 1) The parking district was explained for the benefit of the unfamiliar: ?N? parking means in Old North each lot and each platted duplex will have a nonspecific parking place, marked by the city of Davis, for the use of its current owners, provided they purchase parking permits at $10 per year from the City. Residents will have restricted access to approximately 40% of the street-side parking in ON; residents and nonresidents will have access without permits to the balance of the spaces on a first-come, first serve basis. 2) Discussion of unresolved issues covered these topics: fine tuning the district regulations to facilitate street sweeping, implementing enforcement, and whether the specific location of parking spaces would be negotiable before marking took place. Winterhalder will poll Board Members via e-mail on the street sweeping proposal made by DWR and Public Works, and will work on a review mechanism when we receive the actual design. 3) Two university students (Glaser, Heintzelman), among eight renters of a duplex on D Street with eight automobiles, expressed concern about the limited number of permits their unit would receive (2). They had been unaware of the neighborhood?s work on parking, and raised questions of equity and safety. Residents argued that their situation would improve somewhat by virtue of being able to secure two permitted spaces but that the plan passed by Council did not envision providing a permit to every residential automobile. 4) John Lofland called upon the chair to advance to the next order of business. The second business item was the 5th Street reconfiguring and Old North traffic calming project, in the hands of Steve Tracy. 1) Tracy relayed to those present a couple of conversations following on the latest City Council meeting wherein he was told that a) the City Manager would have little influence on this issue; and and b) that Council Member Souza had conveyed to Tracy in person a negative attitude towards reconfiguring the 5th Street roadway for bike lanes, and/or otherwise attempting to narrow the vehicular path of travel for improved pedestrian safety and flow. Souza cited safety concerns for neighborhoods whose cross streets might be used by diverted traffic attempting to improve travel times through town. 2) Val reported a counting device at the intersections of Fifth Street with D and E Streets, otherwise no movement has been seen with respect to the promised meeting with Fehr and Peers, to view improvements in the flow model they prepared for the city. Third on the agenda, Winterhalder reported on the requested relocation of garbage pickup back to the alleys on most, but not all streets of Old North. 1) The effort by DWR to experiment with an alley pickup using the new trucks and cans was described as ambiguous owing to the mismatch of available cans to available swing arm on the truck used in the trial, and to the presence of an administrator rather than truck driver behind the wheel of the garbage truck. 2) Dan Quickert will call Sue Gedestad to review and report on DWR plans for tree trimming before we begin the planned, 4-6 week trial of alley pickup. There was nothing to report on zoning and in-fill. The City Manager has not replied to Old North?s letter of support for Ms. Polito. There is still pressure within Old North to push for keeping her on neighborhood issues where her expertise has been so useful. Winterhalder suggested a letter to James Antonin as a way of reminding him of Antonin?s understanding that she would be assigned to a citywide role. The draft will be reviewed by the Board before being sent to the City. Tim Allis of Old East and Daniel Boone of Oueste arrived late in the meeting to introduce Boone, whose neighborhood is beginning to organize, in response to student storage of cars and other issues with the City and University. Valerie Van spoke on her attempt to discover how private e-mail correspondence, circulated on the Old North and Davis Historical Society lists made its way into the official minutes of the city, apparently through city staffers. ON minutes will be be posted to e-mail on the list along with their being archived on the web site. At 9 PM the meeting was adjourned. Minutes taken and transcribed by Sheryl Gerety -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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