Davis Islands Neighborhood Planning Task ForceAdministrative Meeting Minutes Present: Lee Medart, Charner Reese, Gary Brown, Jeffery Siewert, Dennis Cavenaugh, Renae Tvedt, Renee Meehan, Shelia Spicola, Lisa DeVitto, and Terry Cullen, Rose Petrucha – Planning Commission Advisors. Absent: Luke Rosa, Phyllis Pacyna, and Lorraine Smith 1. Chair called Meeting to order at 6:35 pm. Quorum was not met at this time but was later in the meeting. 2. Minutes for the June 23rd, 2003 meeting were approved after there was a quorum with no corrections. Chair’s Report 1. Chair presented “draft” business cards for the Task Force and asked for comments. She asked that the task force let her know what telephone numbers members wanted on the cards. 2. The Chair reported that she had had a meeting with Rob Wolfe who is the strategic planner and 2nd in command of HCC. The purpose of the meeting was to introduce Shirley Mora to him. She gathered about 250 names on a petition for an adult recreation center for Davis Islands. He did tell me that because of the budget cuts in the State Government that it would probably be 3 years before they would be doing anything about decentralizing HCC. The Chair and Mr. Wolfe talked about the DI Neighborhood Planning and concerns that we had discussed at the last meeting about being included in city meetings with special interest groups here on the Islands. Rob suggested that instead of talking to the Civic Association and all the other groups on the Islands, we instigate a “President’s Council”. The purpose of the council would be to get the “presidents” of each of the organizations on the Islands such as TGH, DICA, DI CofC and others and say to them, we are all working towards the betterment of Davis Islands and we are finding that the stakeholders are saying X so how can we go about achieving that and how can we work as a whole to get it done. He also stated that he would help us work up that group, as that’s what he does for HCC; working up divergent groups to pull together as well as a “strategic planner” for HCC. Charner suggested that it sounded like it might be an implementation organization but that she thought it would be an excellent idea. The chair suggested that it wasn’t her purpose to discuss this tonight but rather that we have a special meeting in August to discuss the various ideas we have come up with and tonight move on to the discussion of the findings from the open house. Gary asked if this situation of many special interest groups happen in other neighborhood planning areas. Terry answered that he was surprised that Shannon Edge hadn’t already gotten the word out to the City departments to notify us. A number of suggestions were made and much discussion but no consensus was formed. We agreed on a meeting July 14th. Unfinished Business:The Chair handed out the original surveys so that the members could read the comments on the surveys so that we could get down to the “feeling” of the responses. She had also sent the survey with percentages via email to the task force. The meeting was turned over to Rose to lead. We had been working on how the answers on the surveys broke out and find “key elements” in those answers starting with the highest rated ones that were 80 or 90% strongly agree. We were intending to do is find a commonality between them. The highest rating statement on the survey was number 24 at 91% and dealt with safely walking, biking throughout Davis Islands. Terry suggested that we would be better able to find preferences if we did percentages by the positive two categories vs. negative two categories so that we could come up with some comparisons on the positive and negative. Jeffrey said he would do this for us. The members decided that “neutral” meant that there were no strong feelings about it one way or another. “Safe” turned up a number of times. Gary will photo the board where we wrote up the percentages/statements and type them up so we can have them on paper. It was discussed about the statement current land use appropriateness in terms of Multifamily housing that Terry pointed out that 67% of the answers agreed with the current land use for multifamily when you count the “somewhat agree” and “strongly agree” but only 35% if you count only the “strongly agree”. It was suggested that we percentage the “Agree” side with the “disagree” side so that we get a better handle on how many “agree” with the statement. Terry stated that he didn’t expect the survey to come out the way it did. He expected to have most of the values validated in a relatively strong positive way and some of the values would be questionable. But he saw that most of them was well over a simple majority. He commented that we were target in our line of thinking so we need to get a handle on where people are disagreeing and why. When we build the plan we might want to come back an visit those negatives and find out why they disagree because there are many reasons why they disagree. Gary suggested that the “red” responses we’ve written on the board are the both negatives and the “blue” is both the positives percentages. Terry suggested that we look at where people reported traveling on the Islands and where they had problems and put that with the question about safe travel on the survey. And compatible styles statement compared with the comments of the pictures. Jeffrey asked for advice on presenting the map of routes gathered at the Open house. Terry suggested that Jeffrey start aggregating some of the information. An area where groups of people are coming from; corridors that were traveled; circle areas that were hot spots and maybe identify that this is a pedestrian or bicycle path; circle areas where corridors are springing up. The problem is probably not going North/South but rather East/West. This would encompass crossing Davis Blvd. being issues; find out where those are and mark those for special treatment; traffic calming, special crossing places, special landscaping identifying them as a pedestrian corridor. Rose stated that the people filling out the maps when riding their bikes took different routes than when they used their cars and some people that when riding their bikes took different routes each time to get to Java & Cream. New BusinessLisa brought up that she was feeling sort of adrift as to what we are suppose to be accomplishing with the surveys by July 28th. Terry responded that we wanted to have a recordance of the results of the open house so that we can give them to people and say this are the results. The Chair stated that we had talked about a deadline two weeks ago about how many meetings would it take to accomplish what we are suppose to be accomplishing for the next open house. We do not want to be like in January we had to meet every week to get to a point of presentation for the open house. Charner stated that we were just trying to digest it and put it into graphic form so everyone can see it and understand it. Terry stated that we have to have these free form discussions with no end and he felt that that was real tough for some people, not having a specific direction all the time. Terry also stated that we have to come up with discreet ideas and it can only be done by discussion. It was explained that through these discussions and consensus about meanings, the vision would be created for us. Secondly, more time will be spent on how we want to present that vision. Lisa asked about a report for the task force and Terry responded that a report would just document how we arrived at community values. The Chair suggested that we schedule a meeting every other week through September. Terry suggested that we not schedule a meeting because the scheduling of the March meeting caused us to work very hard to meet that announced meeting. Everyone agreed that we’d meet every other week until we felt comfortable that we had accomplished our community vision. Charner suggested that we list all the results that need to be presented to the Task Force for discussion:
Lisa offered to type up the comments on the surveys. Lisa also stated that we should write down as we are summarizing as we go along. Terry thought that would be a great idea. The actual survey is a summary itself and it will be put in a graphic format. The comments from the survey will be put into a text document. We can highlight concepts and words that come out if we see something that begins to emerge. When it comes to writing out the report it will probably take a few people working together to accomplish that. Terry agreed that as we have these free-form discussions that we have someone take down some notes as to what we are completing. The next meetings will be July 14 to discuss our inclusion into special interest groups and how to go about it; July 28 is already scheduled for discussion and we did agree that we would meet every two weeks through September to go over the free-form discussion. Meeting adjourned at 8:44 pm. |
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