Join the Friends of Tideman Johnson Park for the final work party of 2009 on Saturday, February 6, from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m., at S.E. 37th Avenue and Springwater Corridor Trail. Refreshments and work tools are provided at the site.

We’ve had lots of weed-wackin’ and ivy pullin’ — including a group of 20 college students on Martin Luther King Day. Now it’s planting season.

And, come check out our new interpretive signs. The signs were designed by Marty Urman of the Johnson Creek Watershed Council and the text was thoroughly tested on Doug Bridge’s fifth-grade class at Lot Whitcomb Elementary (Photo of the sign is also in the attached EPacket).

Website: http://www.ardenwald.org/comm/fotjp

The February 9th Ardenwald-Johnson Creek Neighborhood Association regular meeting agenda is now available online.  Items on the agenda include:

• artMOB Update: Eric, Jeff, and Nancy
• Grant Discussions: MHS Senior Grad Party, Senior Center 30^th Anniversary, Graffiti Summit
• Urban Renewal Study Grant Funding – Paul Shirey
• JCB Tolling Options – Carlotta Collette

As always, we will have the police and committee reports.

Download Feb. 9, 2010 Regular NDA Meeting Agenda

New bicycle wayfinder signs are beginning to appear throughout the neighborhood. These signs, similar to the ones used in Portland, help guide cyclists to the best route for a destination.  The sign also includes distance and estimated riding time based on average 10 mph speed.

The signage in the photograph is at S.E. Balfour Street and S.E. 29th Ave. Other wayfinder signs may soon appear on other neighborhood streets such as S.E. 42nd Ave. and S.E. Johnson Creek Blvd.

A follow-up meeting regarding S.E. Johnson Creek Blvd. traffic signals and calming will be on Thursday, Feb. 11, 2010, 6:30-8:30 at Ardenwald Elementary School.

TriMet, City of Milwaukie, City of Portland, and Oregon Department of Transportation will be at the meeting with updates regarding JCB traffic issues.

More Information…

If you have not subscribed to CodeRED, Milwaukie’s telephone-based emergency notification system, you may want to add your landline and cellular phone number to the list.

If you already subscribe to CodeRED and your phone number changed before June 2009, you will need to update your phone number in the system.

The automated messaging system will call subscribers to alert any emergency situation present in the area.

Milwaukie Police Department activated CodeRED on Jan. 15th when a shooting suspect was at large in the Island Station Neighborhood. Read the rest of this entry »

Update from the CAC meeting, Jan. 21, 2010

The Milwaukie Portland Light Rail Citizens Advisory Committee meeting discussed a couple topics of importance to the AJC neighborhood notably a new traffic analysis (see links below). I expressed our concerns about the traffic signal changes as outlined in our letter. Neighborhood resident Linda Hattlelid made a long and informative speech that will go in the meeting minutes.

The neighborhood letter was received well but I had no questions about it and I handed out a hard copy to those who did not receive the electronic copy. Those who care about the issue will need to follow up with their elected officials to have any impact on this issue. Also read the note from Police Chief Jordan at the end of this report.
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The Jan. 12, 2010 draft meeting minutes are now available for your review online.  The minutes will be approved at the Feb. 9, 2010 meeting.  If you have any corrections to report, please email Bryan Dorr at the contact provided on the last page of the minutes.

View Jan. 12, 2010 Draft Minutes

Dear Friends and Neighbors

How many times have you said: “I wish we could just put up a toll booth on Johnson Creek Boulevard and charge everyone cutting through our neighborhood”?

Living on the boulevard, I’ve said it a lot and heard it said often as well.

Well here’s the deal: we could actually get a pilot tolling project on the boulevard if we’re interested. We will need to request it and write the conditions under which we’d accept it, but we could be the first community in the region to toll people cutting through our neighborhood if we are interested.
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Three more items have been added to the Jan. 12th. Meeting Agenda.  Tim O’Neil of Southeast Uplift will speak about Solarize Portland Project.  Paul Shirey, City of Milwaukie, will discuss the Urban Renewal Study funding.  We will have a discussion about the Ardenwald Sign on SE 32nd Ave, that was destroyed New Year’s Eve.  Updated Meeting Agenda.

Ardenwald-Johnson Creek NDA will discuss the letter drafted by AJC NDA Transportation Chair, Michole Jensen, at the January 12th neighborhood meeting.  The letter outlines the Neighborhood’s position regarding the proposed traffic control changes for SE Johnson Creek Blvd.  A vote will follow the discussion.

Read the letter by Michole Jensen, Transportation Chair

Updated Meeting Agenda for Jan. 12, 2010