York Planning Committee Report
July 15, 2007
Submitted by committee chair, Anne Mackie
Structure:
The York Planning Committee has a 24-person roster of
participants and interested residents.
There have been approximately 12 consistently active members. It has been meeting since February ’07; and
beginning in April it has held two meetings per month: one a business meeting and one a “walk
around” through one of the neighborhood’s areas.
Accomplishments:
- A
letter of invitation to join the committee was issued in March to possible
committee recruits.
- Attended
Sehome Neighborhood planning meetings; collaborative work with Sehome
continues.
- Areas
1, 2, 4, and 9 have been toured as a group and written reports will be
forthcoming on each plus Area 6.
- Areas
8 and 5 will be completed in August.
Current tasks:
- A
neighborhood needs assessment survey has been prepared and will be issued
by August 1, with a postcard to be mailed to each residence, property
owner or business owner announcing the survey web address (for filling out
the online survey); or a person can request a paper copy.
- Target
date for the survey results to be issued is Sept. 22 to coincide with the
annual neighborhood picnic.
- An
information table at the picnic will be staffed by committee members.
- First
general public York planning meeting scheduled for Wed. October 10, at
which work groups will be formed to manage the details of rewriting the
neighborhood plan.
- Letter
of Intent to file the neighborhood plan update in 2008 is due to the city
by December 1, 2007.
Funding:
Monthly costs for the survey software $19.99 (through
surveymonkey.com) and the post card printing and mailing will be funded through
the city’s grant to neighborhoods for their plan update work.
Board decision
needed:
To confirm date of October 10 for first general
membership meeting dedicated to the neighborhood plan update process.