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Materials for the Oct 14 E-G Neighborhood Council Meeting

Materials for the Oct 14 E-G Neighborhood Council Meeting

It’s an action-packed agenda at this month’s meeting of the Emerson-Garfield Neighborhood Council, which happens tomorrow (Wednesday, October 14) starting at 6pm in the Corbin Senior Activity Center Center (827 W Cleveland). There’s an update from Community Frameworks on the West 315 revitalization at the corner of Washington and Mission. In other development news, one resident will be speaking to her concerns over a proposed 24-cottage facility by the Transitional Living Center. We’ll also be continuing the conversation on neighborhood crime that we began…

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Recap of the September 2015 E-G Neighborhood Council Meeting

Recap of the September 2015 E-G Neighborhood Council Meeting

This is a recap of the Emerson-Garfield Neighborhood Council meeting that took place on Wednesday, September 9. In response to concerns about an increase in crime, Officer Tracy Ponto of the Spokane Police Department addressed neighborhood crime statistics over the last month. The reports include West Central as well parts of North Hill, so there is no distinction from Emerson-Garfield, but they do indicate some downward trends. Sexual assault is down this month. Commercial robbery is down, and robbery of a person…

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Recap of the August 2015 E-G Neighborhood Council Meeting

Recap of the August 2015 E-G Neighborhood Council Meeting

Typically the Emerson-Garfield Neighborhood Council holds a very casual meeting with a light agenda after the neighborhood’s Summer Potluck, and this year was no different. However, owing to shifts in the annual Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) deadlines, the agenda included preliminary decisions on how the neighborhood intended to allocate its $56,299 for 2016. Here’s a brief recap of some of the discussion and decisions from the August 12, 2015 neighborhood council meeting. (Click here for a photo gallery from the potluck.) Because the proposal due August…

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Register Now for Free Trees

Register Now for Free Trees

The Residential Tree Program — also known as “Wow! Free trees!” — proved to be incredibly popular here in Emerson-Garfield this past spring, so we wanted to let everyone know that there’s going to be an autumn distribution too. Registrations to claim free trees opened last week and run until the first week of October. They’ve done such a good job of explaining the details of the Residential Tree Program over on the City’s website that we’ve re-posted their announcement below (with some…

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Request for Comments: 1728 & 1730 W Buckeye

Request for Comments: 1728 & 1730 W Buckeye

As part of a citywide effort to keep neighborhoods better informed of land use decisions, the City has begun distributing RFCs (requests for comments) to the Emerson-Garfield Neighborhood Council whenever there’s a zoning or parcel change relevant to our neighborhood. The last time they did this was for the construction of a broadcast tower at the back of the new Spokane Public Radio building. The current RFC is designated the “Miller” Preliminary City Short Plat (file no. Z1500069PSP) and concerns the parcel(s) at 1728…

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