The most recent NSNA-City Team Meeting occurred on April 17. Julie Turner and Cynthia Serra represented NSNA. Here's a brief summary of information from that meeting:
Priority Codes Compliance Properties--
1. Hazelton has been demolished
2. 305 12th Avenue N.E. to be demolished within 2 weeks
3. 322 9th Avenue North is vacant, violations non-compliant, City has placed liens on property, and demo process has begun.
4. 824 Bay St. junk-trash-debris, illegal units, overgrowth. Secured and appeal of demo cheduled for May 5. A potential buyer has approached the City.
5. 840 Bay St. Still in non-compliance, and code enforcement thwarted by frequent changes in ownership.
6. 315 10th Ave. N. police and codes compliance issues.

City feedback on the quality of the new curb-cuts and ramps in NS: they are rougher than those previously constructed to meet requirements for the visually impaired (a few residents have called to complain about the newer ramps).

The NSNA Beautification Committee has proposed a new plan to complete the landscaped triangle at 4th Street and 5th Avenue North, and the proposal will be reviewed by Public Works. The new plan proposes to incorporate an Old Northeast monument that now sits on 22nd Avenue North just east of 4th Street North.

Initiative to address prostitution on 4th Street North: the City plans a new City Team to include all neighborhood associations that border 4th Street North and their Community Police Officers.

No, No, No,

Don't move the monument. Is is more visable where it is and it looks great. I look at it everytime I go in and out on 22nd. Besides why waste the money to move it when it is just fine where it is. Can't North Shore think of something new to do rather than moving something that is already fine.

Have to Agree

I have to agree. The monumnet should stay where it is, right in the middle of the neighborhood. The other location it would only be seen
by people leaving downtown and going into the 4th Street Business District. Too commercial, not residential.

Thanks for input--background...

Thanks for your feedback. Here's some background info. just for your information. The original plan worked out by previous NSNA leadership and the City was to move the monument to a landscaped island in the middle of 22nd Avenue N. just east of 4th Street. A grant was awarded by the City to accomplish that plan. Just recently, the City informed us that they will not follow through with that proposal because the road is too narrow, and engineers believe the island and monument would be a hazard. They extended our grant and asked us to find another site that they would find feasible.

We don't have to move the monument. It can stay where it is. Some have offered the opinion that it is not visible enough. Others may have suggestions for another placement. The proposed plan for 4th and 5th is just a proposal--it has not yet been voted on by the membership, because the Beautification Committee does not yet have City feedback on feasibility. In terms of the comments about residential versus commercial, that corner is a prominent neighborhood boundary--our neighborhood boundaries include the east side of 4th Street North, which is commercial, and the north side of 5th Avenue North.