[furnished by the City on 4/14/04]
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Area 1 (Part 2) Walkabout – Summary
April 12, 2004
Attendees: Danette Chimenti, Claudette Lowe, Mary Lovell, Tim
Mahoney, Jim Ballard, Peg Box, Rick Krenzke, Myra Goepp, Valerie
Fremin, Mare Hopkins, Ellen Ward, Gloria and Mason Lee, Jennifer
[with daughter Marianna (sp?)] Bousquet, Pam Henderson, Linda
Ahern and Kevin McPherson.
City Staff: Adam Smith
- First Thursday – Parking on residential
streets, trash left behind in the neighborhood (SoCo
businesses are supposed to rotate clean-up duties, but
have not done so recently) and ongoing issues with noise
in violation with City’s noise ordinance.
- Statehouse Apartments – gate off The Circle
has remained open due to construction on South Congress.
- Deliveries to businesses and apartments – delivery
trucks park in the middle of the streets (often with the
engines idling) for up to several hours at a time.
Creates traffic safety, noise and environmental concerns.
Particularly a problem on Gibson near St. Vincent de Paul’s,
The Circle behind Texas Music Café and Academy Drive
near the apartments. Delivery trucks also making
deliveries and pickups for St. Vincents on Gibson through
new constructed gate where wall and hedges used to be.
- The Circle – possibility of dead-ending
Circle at Gibson?
- Sidewalks – continuous sidewalk along South
Congress (particularly south of Gibson). Monroe one of
the main streets to park, used heavily by pedestrians.
- Runoff – 1) From the Circle into "Ravine"
– no curb and gutter along section of road, water
discharges out of pipe onto The Circle. 2) Hillside Drive
– drainage easement running through residential
properties
- Oak Wilt – check on possibility of
inoculating trees against oak wilt
- Ravine – pocket park possibilities; several
people said they would like Ravine area to stay the way
it is; "smallest watershed" in the neighborhood.
- Signage – additional signage needed in
neighborhood indicating "no parking" areas;
stop signs
- 5 Oceans/Car Repair on South Congress – are
there any redevelopment plans? Parking already deficient
and would be exacerbated if restaurant or bar moved in.
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