CCCC minutes, 2007 08 28

Meeting Minutes from the Columbia City Neighborhood Meeting
Held: August 28, 2007 at the Columbia City Library

At the meeting, we developed the following three lists of ideas.

1. What do neighborhood groups do?

• Speak independently of (the City) and for residents
• Forum for Community Building (e.g. past efforts kicked-off Beatwalk and the Farmers Market)
• A way for people to come together and problem solve
• Stewards of Neighborhood Plans ( We have a Columbia City, Hillman City Plan)
• Fun, Food, Community & Relationship Building
• Represent the Neighborhood's diversity
• Watchdogs for Public and Private activities
• A way to get opinions heard
• A way to keep informed and exchange ideas
• Look at Micro-issues
• Put out a newsletter/ do community outreach

2. What issues would people like to address?

• SUNI's Pomegranate Center Project
• Traffic: speeding (maybe speed bumps would help)
• Off leash dogs & dog poop
• Safety
• Changes to zoning (e.g. possible upzoning to multi-family)
• Parking
• Review Neighborhood Plan
• Invest in Quality Schools to make sure our neighborhoods schools are great
• Disaster Preparations
• A trolley/bus to circulate around the Light Rail Station, Columbia City and other nearby neighborhoods
• Bus Service
• Get sidewalks
• Columbia School site future plans
• Bike Master Plan
• More Block Parties
• Better Lighting
• Neighborhood cleanup (more than once a year)
• Having speakers
• Coming up with a specific issue/activity that motivates

3. How can we better outreach and communicate with our neighbors?

• On paper (a neighborhood newsletter)
• We do have a neighborhood website that is just getting going. It allows people to add to it. It is at ColumbiaCitizens.net.
• phone trees
• yahoo groups
• personal contacts
• flyers
• getting expertise from other groups for suggestions
• newspapers

Below you will find a link to vote for upcoming meeting times. As soon as we have survey results for meeting times we’ll propose next steps & announce the next meeting.

To help us select the best meeting day and time, Liz has put together the following website where you can vote your preference:
https://catalysttools.washington.edu/survey/petersec/41516

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