May 2012 Eight Streets Neighborhood Association Meeting

Announcements

• Ringgold Park will gave a Celebration of the new fountain on Sunday, May 6th, starting at 12:30. Join the Mayor and the Friends of Ringgold as they officially open the new fountain. Refreshments and other goodies from the City.
• Tuesday, May 10th will bring the next meeting on the redesign of the Ringgold play areas at the Blackstone center.

26 Milford St

Lewis Legon, developer of 26 Milford, came to request neighborhood support for rear decks at 26 Milford street. Decks would be at parlor and 2nd floor levels. After presentation and discussion, membership voted to Not Oppose the addition of the rear decks. A Letter was sent to ZBA

21 Dwight St

Rob Ferris, developer of 21 Dwight, also come forward to add rear decks at the Parlor and 2nd floor levels. After presentation and discussion, membership voted to Not Oppose the addition of the rear decks. A Letter was sent to ZBA.

Trash Education

An open discussion took place concerning Trash Education. How can we best educate neighbors in order for trash and recycling to be put out at proper times in proper containers. The rational being that if we put our trash out better, there woudl be fewer trash issues on the street.

There were no strong conclusions reached. Continuing to hand out the Trash Fliers at meetings and events will help. ESNA wil also continue to work with DPW at the South End Forum meetings to come up with other South End Wide ideas to address trash issues. In the meantime the flier will be available on line, and attendees said they would "spread the word" via email and chatting with neighbors to try to attack the problem resident by resident.

Trash info, and our trash flier can be found on this trash blog entry

Meeting adjourned. Next meeting Tuesday, June 6th