Goss-Grove Neighborhood Meeting
April 8, 2013
Next meeting: Monday, July 15th, 7 p.m., 1919
Grove St
The meeting was opened by co-chair Jenny at 7 P.M. There were 21 people in attendance. Attendees
introduced themselves by sharing an interesting tidbit about themselves; we
have a very interesting group of neighbors from poets to scientists, rock band
performers, students, old and young. We had more people at the meeting than we
have had at many meetings and so appreciate all of you coming! Chocolate was yummy, as was freely flowing
wine, compliments of Mary and Maria. Please
come next time, whether it is the first time or the 70th time.
Topics:
Neighborhood Garden
Little Free Library
Demolition Permit on Goss Street
Compass Rose
Renaming of Canyon Park
Coffee Shop
Naropa Lincoln Building remodel
Treasurers report
Social Media -
NextDoor.com
Good neighbor brochure
Arapahoe construction
Neighborhood Garden—Vote
was taken to use funds to get a compost bin at Garden. This will use about 1/3
of our budget. Last year we had two, but
one should be sufficient. Chris continues
to work on sorting stones for mosaic between benches. He’ll let us know when he needs some more
help. Website for Garden has been put on
hold as Stephen is now busy with other tasks.
Little Free Library: Chris Shutze, a very talented carpenter and
craftsperson in our neighborhood, generously volunteered to design and build
a Little Free Library for our Park/Garden.
It’s on his list, but first things
first..he needs to finish working on their house.
It’s looking amazing..even the porch is level
now.
We’ll wait for what we know will be
a beautiful and functional work. (Find out more about this nationwide project
at
http://www.littlefreelibrary.org/).
If you need remodel/renovation or any other
type of carpentry in your home, call Chris at 303-882-4484.
Demolition Permit for
2118 Goss: Mark R. gave an update on
the demolition permit. Some folks from
Historic Boulder came down and toured the property to see it in its full state
of decay. There is a May 15th
public hearing to lift the stay on a potential demolition permit for a property
on Goss. If this comes through, we can
expect a single family home in the future for Mark and his family.
The compass rose--needs
refurbishing and the plan is to undertake the project in the fall. Thanks,
Alycia, for volunteering to spearhead this!
Update on renaming of
Canyon Park to Emma Martinez Park: This
will be taken up by City Council on April 22nd…that has now passed
so we’ll hear what happened from Loren at next meeting.
Coffee Shop Update: The
owner of the building at the southwest corner of Arapahoe and 19th
and the potential business manager spoke of plans to open a coffee shop at that
location. A small coffee shop was
approved last year by the city but a revised business plan submitted by the
potential business owner and building owner features a 2200 sq ft 80 seat
business and expanded hours. This
changes the city requirement for parking etc.
Discussions centered on the overflow traffic and parking impacts that
would be shouldered by the neighborhood.
Neighbors generally like the idea of a small coffee shop but don’t want
adverse effects for the neighborhood.
Update after meeting: I received this nice email from Todd.
Thank you very much for
inviting us to your association meeting April 8th and allowing us the
opportunity to present our proposal and to hear your concerns. I'm
writing to let you know that we will be submitting our proposal to the city for
the change in zoning, and will be reducing the amount of seats from 80 seats(26
parking space requirement) to 50 seats(16 parking space requirement) to help
address the parking concerns. This will result in a 50% reduction in
parking instead of a 75% reduction. I apologize about the confusion
over the amount of seats, I had originally asked for 60 seats for my shop, but was told that the square
footage required 80 seats. Apparently I had a misunderstanding between
amount of seats vs maximum occupancy. After reviewing the floor plans we
determined that 50 seats would actually be the best number for the space.
The maximum occupancy will be figured by square footage after final
plans are submitted.
I also wanted to send you some
bullet points from my management plan that I submitted to the planning
department as well as some steps I will be taking to address parking should the
zoning change get approved.
· I
plan to designate 2-4 of the parking spaces in my lot as 15 minute or less
only.
· The
elimination of the curb cut from the parking lot onto 19th street will add two
street spaces. I will petition city to make at least one of them a
15 minute or less space.
· I
will provide bike/skateboard racks
· I will
provide an EcoPass for all employees. All employees will be encouraged to
walk/bike/bus
· I will
concentrate my marketing to the dense population in the immediate area. I
plan on serving the people already in the neighborhood-not trying to bring in
business from across town. I expect most of my customers to be students,
the employees of the nearby business, and the residents of Goss Grove.
· Many of
my customers will be on foot or biking
· There
will be no deliveries/music/loud noises before 7am or after 9pm
· There
will be no outdoor musical performances
· Patio
will close no later than 9pm
· In
general I want to be a part of making Goss Grove a more pedestrian friendly
neighborhood
Thanks again for your time,
consideration and patience! I hope that I have addressed some of
your concerns. Please feel free to contact me any time with any questions.
I don't have a hearing date yet, but should be late May or early
June and would love your support
Naropa Lincoln
building remodeling— Naropa has plans to remodel the old Lincoln school house. This involves an addition to the back of the
building that would house stairs and elevator to comply with the CDA for access
by wheelchair etc. The rest of the exterior
would be cleaned of air conditioners and fire escapes and would be
restored. Interior remodeling would also
be done but doesn’t need historic approval.
Treasurers report—Jamie
researched if there was a way to handle finances through a credit union or
bank. For the amount of money that we
handle, it seemed difficult, so we are just using a lockbox to hold funds. Jenny collected $840 from garden fees. Thank you, Jamie, for looking into this.
Brochure on Good
Neighbor Behavior: We discussed how
best to approach neighbors that maybe need a little reminder about things like
trash, trash containers, snow shoveling etc.
We came up with the idea of a small GG brochure that anyone could just
drop by. Loren volunteered to write
something up for review at the next meeting.
Thanks, Loren!
Social Media/Communications: Jamie presented NextDoor as our social media
solution. What a great idea and great
site! Thanks, Jamie! So far we have more than 20 neighbors signed
up with some nice participation in music, classifieds, general commentary. Of course, it will be what we make of
it. I did notice that Paige and Jeff are
having a CD concert this weekend and that they posted something on their
fence. I hope they’ll post to NextDoor
(hint, hint). You can sign up at
NextDoor.com. ONLY people who live in
Goss Grove can sign up and all the posts are only for our reading. Love to see participation expanded.
Arapahoe
Reconstruction: The answer to GGNA
letter about the Arapahoe Avenue
reconstruction from the city was read. Construction
is going to start soon..be ready!
Respectfully submitted by Michele Bishop
