January 24, 2010: Meeting on Process

Ruth Rodriguez prepared the following summary of the meeting on January 24, 2009 with action items to be addressed in days to come:

Greetings All,

I just left a meeting with representatives of the Garden Committee and residents from Thorman as well as other neighbors regarding revisions to the previously proposed Community Garden site plan.

To achieve maximum consensus of residents immediately adjacent to and affected by the planned revisions to Clover Lawn we have agreed to the following:

A small group will work on providing a couple of options to the site plan currently proposed (that will happen this Thursday at my house)

A questionnaire/idea sheet is being written to accompany those plans so we may receive additional input on how neighbors use the park, envision the park and how, if at all, a community garden might co-exist with current uses

On this coming Sunday, January 31st, the drawings and questionnaire will be dropped off at houses on Allensworth, Thorman and Carnahan. We will be requesting that the questionnaires be returned in a week to a specific house on each street.

This document will be available online as well as be available at the next general membership meeting. At next month's general meeting we will update the membership to the recent steps that have been taken. Suzanne, I hope this works with what else you might already be planning for the monthly meeting. We will provide the PDF of the questionnaire with plan as soon as possible so it may be uploaded to the website.

On Saturday, February 20th, we will hold a charrette in Clover Park to workshop preferred ideas and choose a consensus site design plan for Clover Lawn. That plan should be distributed in the same manner as the questionnaire.

Bruce and Carlynn - Can we get the following published in the newsletter:

Please plan to attend the meeting in February as we will bring you up to date on changes that are being proposed to the pocket park, Clover Lawn, bounded by Allensworth, Thorman, Catalpa and Avenelle. These ideas may also affect other pocket parks in the neighborhood and your
input is crucial. Surveys are being circulated on the streets immediately surrounding Clover Lawn. If you would like to fill out a survey and one is not dropped off at your house you may either
download it from the website or call a board member and one will be dropped off for you. For those interested in participating in a design charrette regarding the future of this park, please plan on joining us on Saturday, February 20th in the park (a time has not yet been set).