Beautiful Community Garden and Park

Thank you Nicole, Josh, Jon, Jerrie, Chris, Kris, Jenelle and Michele for coming out to make our Garden and Park the most lovely of all the Growing Gardens.  We cleaned up everything beautifully and so quickly with so many helping hands. No more scheduled cleanups for this growing season, so I will look forward to seeing you doing your final harvesting and next year!  Thanks for being a lovely community of gardeners.  Jenny

We Have Neighbor in Open Studios

Check out Jerrie Hurd's Open Studio this weekend and next. Here's the info . . .

Jerrie Hurd’s Homo Sapiens Unadorned

An Open Studio/ #66 of Boulder’s Open Studios

When: October 2,3 and October 9,10 --Noon to 6 p.m. each day

Where: 2010 Goss Street, Boulder—follow signs to studio in back

Directions: From Canyon in downtown Boulder, turn south on 21^st Street. A block later, 21^st Street turns and becomes Goss Street. You are looking for little yellow house with big-big house numbers 2010.

New Snow Removal Info From City

This came from the city today. It's in governmentese but contains new info about snow removal regs with good links.

Following up from the April Weekly Information Packet (WIP) item on sidewalk snow removal, http://www.bouldercolorado.gov/files/City%20Council/WIPS/2010/Apr_8/2B.doc

issues and opportunities were explored further. Some changes are proposed as a result that impact both city practices and regulations. Both are discussed in a Sept. 21 Council memo:

http://www.bouldercolorado.gov/files/Clerk/Agendas/2010/09_21_2010_Agenda/Snow_removal_memo_and_ord.pdf

Any code change requires two readings by the City Council. First reading is Sept. 21. Staff will follow up on questions identified at first reading. The public hearing and second reading are currently scheduled for Oct. 5.

We welcome comments from the Goss Grove neighborhood about this proposal. The proposed ordinance:

· clarifies that the requirement for prior notification is specific to abatement and not required prior to issuance of a summons,

· more clearly defines that the minimum notification required prior to abatement is one notice per snow season,

· revises the cutoff for the end of a snowfall from midnight to 5 a.m. to eliminate the extended grace period currently allowed for snows ending after midnight,

· clarifies that enforcement action can be in the form of a summons, abatement, or both, and

· increases the administrative fee for abatement cases from $25 to $50 to more accurately reflect city costs.

Feedback from you and your neighbors, as always, will be appreciated. Please also know that outreach efforts are expected to be significant with implementation.

Thanks,

Mo Rait

City of Boulder

Public Works Department

(303) 441-3227

Meetings October 13 AND 21 Both Important!

Listen up!!!!

We have two important meetings coming up. Below you'll find info on meeting with City of Boulder over proposed land use changes in our area, including maps!! Don't miss that one.

Then because we have elections and other neighborhood business, we are going to also have our regular meeting (with Shrimp Gumbo) at 6 p.m. October 21 at Hurd House 2010 Goss.

TWO MEETING. BOTH IMPORTANT!!

The following is the City of Boulder's Agenda:

Goss Grove Neighborhood Meeting

Wednesday October 13

6-8 p.m.

Boulder Creek Meeting Room

Main Library

AGENDA

1. Introductions

2. Questions and Answers

1. Boulder Valley Comprehensive Plan (BVCP) process for land use designation changes
2. The preliminary CU Master Plan for area between Arapahoe and Boulder Creek
3. Naropa future plans

3. Three options for possible land use designation change in the Goss-Grove neighborhood (over)
   
   Three Preliminary Options for a Land Use Designation Change to Mixed Density Residential
   
   
   
   
   
   
   

A photo collage featuring the Goss-Grove Community Gardens will be part of the Grand Opening of the CU Art Museum and new Visual Arts Complex, September 24. The gardens, of course, are a distinguishing feature of our neighborhood, thanks to the continued efforts of Jenny Devaud, Michelle Bishop and others.
The collage by Jerrie Hurd will be part of a larger instillation on one wall of the complex.
Grand Opening will begin at noon with tours of the new building. Performances will begin at 3 p.m. Reception with music on the plaza starts at 4:30 p.m.

Free Bike Clinic Successful!!

Rich Points and Community Cycles rolled into Goss-Grove Neighborhood Saturday afternoon, September 18, with a free bike clinic. Perhaps most impressive is the fact that they walk the talk--everything, tent and all, arrived via pedal power. Then for four hours, they fixed bikes, pumped up tires and talked the merits of cycling.
At the same time, Michelle Bishop and others from the neighborhood handed out free lemonade, tea and fliers about Goss-Grove. It was a cooperative effort that benefited all. Thanks goes to Rich and Community Cycles for suggesting the event. Big thanks to Michelle for making the fliers and setting up the neighborhood booth.

GET YOUR BICYCLE FIXED!!!!!

Community Cycles Rolling Bike Clinic coming to Goss Grove
Saturday Sept 18, Noon - 4p.m.
West side of Snow Lion Apts

Rolling Bike Clinics (RBCs) are bicycle powered mobile bike shops designed to fix broken bikes in neighborhoods in Boulder.

Volunteer bike mechanics load our large capacity bike trailers with all the tools and parts needed for a mobile bike shop. We then ride to a neighborhood, set up shop and fix bikes for a day.
http://communitycycles.org/programs/rolling-bike-clinics.html

Ride On!

This is compliments of Rich Points. Some of you will remember him from our last Goss-Grove Neighborhood meeting.
Support him.
Thank him.
Get your bike fixed.
Check out Community Cycles http://CommunityCycles.org