Jan 162013
BPA Board Meeting Agenda
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Jan 142013
Agenda: BPA Board Meeting: Tuesday, January 15, 2013, 7:15 p.m.
Location: Barron Park School Room 2 (former kindergarten room)
Guests are welcome, but are requested to notify the BPA President so that arrangements can be made to accommodate you (seating and possibly reordering of the agenda).
Questions about agenda items should be directed to the person/people whose name is next to that entry. Comments about items can be sent to that person, or the whole BPA Board ( BPA-Board@googlegroups.com )
Disclaimer: Agenda is subject to change.
Anticipated absences (excused):
Call to order:
1. Agenda Changes (3 minutes)
2. Approval of Minutes (2 minutes)
3. Brief Report on Status of Buena Vista Mobile Home Park (10 minutes) Lynnie Melena and Art Liberman.
4. Annual Meeting (15 minutes). (Lynnie Melena) Make a decision on the main event for the annual meeting and finalize date. Lynnie will handle the room reservation, the postcards and email announcement and make up the agenda. Other Board members will be responsible for other tasks, including creating and distributing neighborhood signs, managing refreshments, setting up and taking down chairs and PA system and arranging for child care if that is desired.
5. New Board Members and Officers (10 minutes) (Lynnie Melena) Discuss progress on recruiting new members and reminder that new officers are needed for president and secretary. At the very least, a new secretary is needed immediately as Linda Elder is resigning that position.
6. Agenda Setting (5 minutes) (Christian Kalar) Discuss how the agenda is set for each meeting. Current practice is for the president to send out a draft to the Board on Friday or Saturday and to request additions and corrections by Sunday evening. (Continued from November meeting.)
7. Status reports and updates on these items are being handled primarily through e-mail. Opportunity for direction and interactions. (5 minutes)
- Green Team
- Zoning and Land Use ( Community Meeting on proposed senior housing at Clemo and Maybell, Wednesday, January 16, 6:30 p.m., Arastradero Park apartments)
- Traffic
- Civic Affairs
- Environmental
- Native planting—Bike path, Strawberry Hill, Matadero Creek
8. Proposals for items for future agendas (5 minutes). These items are awaiting space on a future agenda:
- Review of the BPA as sponsor organization of a Boy Scout Troop (Art Liberman)
- Establishment of policy on authorizing funds for non-BPA organizations and events (Art Liberman)
- Job Description for Business Liaison (Markus Fromherz)
- Reconsideration of policy on BPA email lists (Lydia Kou)
9. Adjourn: NEXT MEETING February 19, 2013. (Lynnie will be absent.)
10. Total scheduled time: 55 minutes
Jan 082013
Date: Wednesday, January 16
Time: 6:30 p.m.
Location: Arastradero Park Apartments Community Room, 574 Arastradero (same location as September meeting)
Palo Alto Housing Corporation (PAHC), a nonprofit affordable housing developer, proposes to build a rental apartment building with approximately 60 apartments affordable to extremely-low to low income senior households and 15 for sale, market rate single family homes. The project site is comprised of two parcels at the corner of Maybell and Clemo Avenues totaling 2.46 acres. The larger parcel (93,654 sq. ft.) is zoned RM-15 and the smaller parcel (13,768 sq. ft.) is zoned R2.
The following drawing shows the current Maybell-Clemo Site Plan. The senior building with affordable-rent apartments is in the interior of the property, and single family market-rate houses are along Maybell and Clemo Avenues. Please keep in mind this is a draft and is subject to change. We (PAHC) are still looking for public feedback.
Maybell-Clemo Site Plan: January 2013
PAHC plans to subdivide the property and apply for the rezoning of the 2.46-acre property to Planned Community. The affordable rental apartments will include 59 1-bedroom apartments and one 2-bedroom apartment for the onsite manager, common areas such as a community room with computer lab, laundry room, manager’s office, a resident services office, as well as outdoor common area space to enjoy. The affordable apartments will have an average size of 600 square feet and be affordable to households earning 30-60% of the Area Median Income in Santa Clara County.
PAHC has been developing and managing affordable housing in Palo Alto since 1970. PAHC’s mission has always been to foster, develop, acquire and manage affordable housing in Palo Alto. PAHC manages over 600 units of affordable housing in Palo Alto. In addition to PAHC’s in-house property management staff, PAHC has Resident Services Program staff to meet the needs of our tenants as well.
PAHC CONTACT PERSON:
Jessica de Wit
PALO ALTO HOUSING CORPORATION
725 Alma Street
Palo Alto, CA 94301-2403
650.321.9709 Phone
650.321.4341 Fax
jdewit@paloaltohousingcorp.org
Dec 192012
Major gas main and services replacement work next year will impact Barron Park, but not before late February. Construction on this project, which would replace existing gas mains using the “Aldyl-A” material that is no longer considered acceptable for prolonged service underground, had been scheduled for 2012, but has been delayed until early 2013.
According to Utilities Communication Manager Debra Katz, “That project has just finished the contractor selection phase (the contractor will be Daleo, Inc. and they have worked with us before and done a very good job). The next step will be a pre-construction meeting later in January and that is where it will be determined when the contractor will work where. What I can say for almost 100% certain is that no work will start anywhere before late February.”
More information about this project can be found here. We will post information on our website when the details become available.
Dec 132012
Barron Park neighbors – The City Council is going to act next Monday (Dec 17th) on a recommendation by Public Works Staff to eliminate pickups of black garbage carts. Not yet for everybody, just for folks in some as-yet-unidentified area. It’s to be a one year, pilot study in which all wastes would be placed in either the green or blue carts, eliminating entirely the collection from black garbage carts.
The idea is that kitchen wastes now disposed of in the black garbage carts would instead be deposited by those residents in the pilot study area into the green ‘compostable’ carts . These materials would be recovered by the workers after collection, and instead of ending up in landfills, they will be sent to some composting facility. Some of the other the smelly stuff – including dirty diapers and bags of doggy poop – along with other ‘garbage’ materials would go into the blue ‘recycling’ carts, and be separated by workers at another site. The one year pilot would start in March 2013, and data collected would determine feasibility of applying this change to residential collections citywide.
You can read the staff report here:
What do you think about this ? A discussion has started on BPA-issues email list.