SCPNA Planning for November 2009

[localone]

Dear scpna.org visitor,

This will be of particular interest to South City Park Residents and to Members of the South City Park Neighborhood Association (SCPNA).

Typically, the local neighborhood association, SCPNA, uses the 'even months'--October, December, February, etc.--to plan for activities of the following month such as the SCPNA Newsletter content and the SCPNA Neighborhood Meeting agenda. Input for the planning, and a review of current events, are accomplished in part through "Block Captain Meetings" which are attended on a best effort basis by SCPNA Officers, Block Captains, and Committee Chairs.

The October Block Captain Meeting has been cancelled due to the severe winter storm. Instead, we will seek input at the scpna.org web site, using its discussion section. The following list of items was to serve as the agenda for the Block Captain Meeting.

Please, we want all visitors to this web site to feel invited to 'weigh in' at the SCPNA Discussion Board with opinions and recommendations for SCPNA about its plans for the time period of now through the month of November.

Thank you,

Jim Slotta-SCPNA President


SCPNA OFFICERS FOR 2010
I would like to have a discussion about this topic. There is work to be done between now and the November 18 elections. If nominated, I am currently willing to continue as either President or Co-President. No person interested in the position has come forth with their platform; one person who was absent was nominated for President at the September Meeting, and one person who was present was nominated and expressed a willingness to be Co-VP. No new persons have stepped forward with interest in the Secretary and Treasurer positions. These positions all require people willing to devote time to them.

NOVEMBER NEWSLETTER
Sunday 11/1: Deadline for submitting articles
Thursday 11/5: Print ready version sent to printers
Friday 11/6: Printed newsletter stacks to block captains and security building contacts for weekend distribution.

Content list is well underway. If any of you have articles to consider for either the short or long version, please let us know before the deadline. So far the articles include:

• Agenda for November 18 Neighborhood Meeting
• Colfax Business Interview by Way Shen
• Teller Elementary School Article by Michele Foust
• Status report for 1601 Colorado housing project
• Summary of September 16 Neighborhood Meeting (short version)
• Minutes of September 16 Neighborhood Meeting (long version)
• "Food for All" food distribution plan
• East High School Entranceway Project
• SCPNA Membership Appeal for 2010
• Plan for local review of "All Ages" Dance Cabaret Liquor License application by the Tavern Hospitality Group for 2510 East Colfax, previous site of the Neighborhood Flix Restaurant-Theater.

NOVEMBER 18 NEIGHBORHOOD MEETING
Agenda needs to be finalized, although several items have been proposed:

• Police report
• Drawing for City Park Jazz T-Shirt
• Election of SCPNA Officers for 2010
• Possible vote on All Ages Dance Cabaret liquor license application for new owners of the former Neighborhood Flix location (Excise & Licenses Public Hearing is now set for Monday, November 23 at 6 PM)
• Possible vote on SCPNA boundary extensions
• Status Report for 1601 Colorado housing project
• East High School report of their values regarding the probable location of a recreation center just west of their campus
• New, Old Business Topics

[singer303]

The parking issue may not be able to wait until 2010. The streets effected by the Bluebird have over 25 houses for sale. People are moving out. I think that requires more urgency on the part of SCPNA - even if it is an interim solution like 2 hour parking 24/7 with permits for residents without off-street parking options (e.g., there are six dwellings between Cook and Madison on 16th).

The City already broke their liquor laws regarding closeness to a High School by granting Encore a liquor license. I believe the neighborhood needs to think long and hard about how we are becoming another LoDo without having signed off on that. We will shortly - if not already - be a neighborhood of bars without the police protection of LoDo. I would like the Officer to address that one as property damage continues unabated. I think a better use for that property is another theater - maybe an art theater.

Expansion of our boundaries - we have no more right to City Park than any other neighborhood that borders it. It belongs to the City as a whole not one neighborhood.

[Oliveann Slotta]

I would like to propose at the Nov. meeting that we add the leadership role of Newsletter-editor-of-the-month. Everyone enjoys the news in this masterpiece but it really is a task all by itself. This would relieve some of the workload from the president and maybe the elected officer positions would be more attractive.

Also-what would you all think about designating the July meeting as the Garden Tour/social event? If there was a pressing issue requiring a vote a special meeting could be called. Do we REALLY need to plan and hold 6 meetings a year?

[robh]

What streets and blocks are you using to get a number of 25 homes for sale? I just checked MLS for the streets of Madison, Cook, Adams and Steele from 13th to 17th. I did not check condos so I did not include the 12 condos that were just flipped in the Parkside Flats project on Steele or the condos in the Blueprint development at Colfax and Madison. MLS shows 4 homes currently for sale, 2 under contract, and 1 sold in the last 2 months. Both Congress Park and South City Park (especially) have come through this nation-wide real estate downturn very well. As a frame of reference, take a drive through Cherry Creek North and count the for sale signs.