Lake Claire Neighbors
Monthly Meeting: Thurs. Apr. 19, 2018
7:15 PM at the Frazer Center, Rose Room
1815 Ponce de Leon Ave NE • Atlanta, GA 30307
Meet and greet your neighbors starting at 7:00 PM.
Pizza (compliments of Savage Pizza) and soft drinks will be served 15 minutes before the meeting. The Lake Claire Neighbors Association is very grateful to this local business for its generous support.
Welcome – please sign in and wear a name tag
Guest speakers (Representatives of the City Council, and Atlanta Police Department)
APD-Sgt Hines: Hardendorf issue – Car was being broken into, scared off but thieves shot at a house. Please call the police vs confronting a thief. 12:45am on a Sat Night.
Please do not leave anything in your cars. No news on perpetrators.
Cameras (like Ring, Nest) are very helpful.
Call 911 (not a non emergency number) if you even have a car rifled through.
Valencia is not able to join us, so Nancy made Natalyn’s report.
District 5 2018 Spring Scrap Tire Drive: April 21st from 9-2 at CHaRM (1110 Hill Street SE ): All items will be accepted at no additional cost on this day only, such as paint, tires, electronics, etc.
Safety (Ann):
Talked to head of Zone 6 about the incident on Hardendorf.
Crime reports coming out of the city are not as extensive as they were a year ago, and the city hack has caused more reports not to be available. He does not know when we will get summaries again.
Communications (Nancy):
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NPU (Carol):
none
Treasurer:
Dues are over $1400 thus far this year!
Environment (Melissa):
Candler Park Conservancy event May 6
Spring Membership Social on Terrace Ave.
Sponsored by Fox Bros with music by Max & Maggie
Dekalb Ave Meeting last night:
Phase 1
Complete within a year: paint and repaving
Getting rid of reversible lane and making it a turn lane.
10 foot lanes will hopefully slow people down.
Increase in times 18 seconds at stop lights.
Increase of extra 200 cars / hour on Ponce , 70 per hour on McLendon.
They are not asking for input, they are just telling us what they are going to do.
Phase 2
Add bike lanes. Roads stay the same as in phase 1. But they don’t have the right of ways. There is no plan, and the old plans we saw are no longer the plan.
Schools (Annsley)
Super Carstarphan meeting Grady Townhall.
3 of the schools in the cluster will not have media specialist next year.
(Inman is putting in a parapro) Budget has changed to be more equitable to the poor schools, so Mary Lin is getting less money next year.
There is a chance we’ll end up with redistricting again.
New kindergarten for Morningside.
Struggles at Centennial, they are no longer allowed to go to Inman.
Fundraising:
Merch is at Wondershop and Candler Park Market.
We are not going to be able to have our annual Centennial BBQ this year.
Announcements and current issues
- 2018 dues reminder – $20 per household
- LCN merchandise and activities
- Jessica Lavandier, Assistant Director, Dept. of City Planning. Development plans for the East Lake Marta Station
- Boyd: Beltline was originally a transit oriented project. Beltline Rail Now organization (CathyWoolard). Pushing the city to finish the Beltline. Asking for NPU support. boyd@sumowriter.com
- V-18-073: 491 Harold Avenue. Applicant seeks variance for the zoning regulations to reduce the required half depth front yard setback from 17 ft. to 10 ft.
Tie: 11 yes, 11 no.
Other issues – those with concerns or information they wish to bring to the membership.
Lake Claire Neighbors meets the third Thursday of each month. Our next meeting is
May 17, 2018
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