Building community and maintaining a great neighborhood to live in.

General Meeting of the North Rose Hill Neighborhood Association

 

Place: North Rose Hill fire Station

Date: September 18, 2006

Call to Order: 7:00

 

The meeting was called to order by Margaret Carnagie at 7:00 pm.

 

Margaret asked the question “what brought everyone to the meeting this evening?”

  • Recent Mailer – approximately 8 raised their hands
  • Yard Signs – 2 people raised their hands
  • The remainder were board member or those that usually attend the meetings

 

Margaret informed the group that with the boards vote from the last meeting, she wrote a letter to the City of Kirkland Police Department regarding traffic safety in the neighborhood.  Particularly the high speeds that people drive on 124th, Slater, and 100th, requesting more police traffic officers to slow drivers down.

 

Dave Boyer – a member of the Traffic Calming Committee at the City of Kirkland

  • A new Stop Sign installed on Slater and 100th where the over pass comes over the freeway from Highlands.
  • The city installed those rubber strips that do a traffic count and car speeds to collect data for further calming on Slater.
  • One piece of information is that those that speed the most are the immediate neighbors as in every neighborhood and people just need to slow down all together.
  • The first meeting at the city will be in a couple weeks but he did not have the date, place and time yet.

 

Kaylee Nilan – Reported on the “Mark Twain Clean-Up” held Labor Day weekend

  • A small number of people showed up and they got ½ of the mulch spread on Saturday and the other half completed on Sunday.
  • The School District is no longer providing mulch but the Mark Twain Principal came up with the money to pay for the mulch.
  • 124th Ave. Clean-up will be scheduled for October

 

Betty Lou Crampton – Reported on the proposed walking route maps

  • The city of Kirkland is promoting Walking for health and they have created walking route maps for each neighborhood that have different difficulty walks and distances mapped out on the overall neighborhood map.
  • Completion time for the maps to be this next month.
  • They will be available down at the city, and Betty Lou will be inserting them in the Welcome Packets
  • There was a suggestion to see if the city will be putting the walking route maps for each neighborhood on the Web.

 

Margaret Carnagie – Centennial Trees

  • There will be more Centennial trees available this fall to plant in the neighborhoods
  • If someone wants a tree to be planted on the city right of way, the city will come out prep, and plant.
  • This time there will be some trees available to plant in your own yard, but if you plant in your own yard, you plant and care for the tree.
  • City arborist is Wendy Kremer

 

Linda Jones – Milkin Family

  • There has been a suggestion of some sort of memorial to the family of a bronze type statue of some sort be erected on North Rose Hill.
  • There will be an account set up to donate dollars to raise enough money to make this happen.

 

New Neighborhood Park on South Rose Hill on 124th between 80th and 85th

Needs to be named

  • If anyone is interested in attending the Meeting it will be October 9, 2006 7:00 p.m. at Rose Hill Elementary School

 

KAN Sponsored Leadership Classes

  • Wednesday November 9, 2006 from 5:30 to 7:00 p.m. held at Heritage Hall on the corner of Market and Central.

 

Robin Paster – Community Response Team Classes

  • Classes are full for the upcoming series held Sept. 20 through November 1, 2006.  It is a 24 hour program, held 7 different evenings
  • The classes teach members of the community how to react and how to handle a disaster, be it an earth quake or some other unforeseen disaster.
  • The course is for anybody, age and ability
  • At the moment there are only 60 people trained in the area for 80,000 citizens.  They are trained for a quick check to make sure those that are in dire need get the medics first, and to communicate with the first responders.
  • If interested in getting on the waiting list for the next set of classes

 

rpaster@ci.kirkland.wa.us   or 425-587-3659 Robin Paster

 

There will be a CIRC Expo held up in Everett October 14, 2006

www.nwexpo.com

 

Lynda Haneman from the Totem Lake Neighborhood did not make it for her Neighborhood report.

 

City Church Housing
Troy Anderson a board member of City Ministries

Dennis Riebe; Riebe and Associates, Architect for the proposed project.

  • The Proposed project to be located at 132nd and 90th (which is not a through street down to 128th).  To be Rentals for Interns in the City Church Intern Program who are in the program for around two years, for Missionaries on Furlough, and for visiting Pastors.
  • The property is currently zoned for eight units and a community center or RSX 7.7 – 7,200 SF lots.
  • The proposed project is a change in zoning PUD (Planned Unit Development) increasing the density to twelve units.  The benefit for the community is: four of the units will be reserved for affordable housing.  The idea that ARCH will have the four units added to their inventory of affordable homes as Rentals. There will be additional right of way for the city and improved curb and sidewalk along both 132 and 90th.
  • There will be two parking stalls per house.
  • The city requires a through street going through the development from 88th to 90th for emergency and fire vehicles.  It will be open to the residence living in the proposed development.
  • 14 significant trees will be retained.
  • The homes will be two stories, with generous porches.
  • SEPA is in process at the moment, once SEPA is complete, a hearing on the proposed project will take place and if it gets approval then it goes to the City Council for a zoning change vote.

 

One of the neighbors who live on 88th brought a letter he wrote to the City Council of his concerns of negative impact on his street. 

  • The neighbors on 88th are concerned that people will be parking on 88th when there are no more stalls in the development.  Troy Anderson from the City Church proposed he have a written statement in the rental agreements that any overspill parking should be handled on City Church grounds and not on 88th.
  • Concerns of added noise, ways to buffer and position the homes.
  • A concern that City Church will sell the property at a later date for profit and all the concerns that will be addressed now, will have no credence in the future. 

Mr. Riebe, the Architect, proposed a meeting with the immediate neighbors on 88th to address their concerns.

 

Mike Stults: Treasurers Report

            Current Bank Account is $838.00

            Invoices to the city for reimbursement back to NRHNA $1,393.00

            NRHNA still owes $619.00 for the new Picnic Banner.

 

No planning commission report, Karen Tennyson unable to make the meeting.

 

No Park Board Report, Jeff Trager unable to make the meeting.

 

Meeting adjourned at 8:45.