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.
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.
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.
Dec. 29, 2009, 4:33 p.m. — Milwaukie Public Works Department says crews are heading out to plow the streets. In Ardenwald, S.E. 32nd Ave., S.E. Johnson Creek Blvd., and S.E. 42nd Ave. are snowplow routes. If you have a car parked on the streets designated a snowplow route, you may want to move it off the street to prevent damages from the snow plowing. Residential side streets are not plowed. See Snowplow Routes (Milwaukie).
The Neighborhood Association delivered the presents donated by local residents and businesses to two anonymous Ardenwald-Johnson Creek NDA Christmas Adopt-a-Family families over the weekend.
Lisa Gunion-Rinker said that both families “were so touched by your thoughtfulness and generosity that they started crying.”
Matt Rinker, Jeff Davis and Chris Davis helped deliver the presents, including a queen-sized mattress and box spring, in the pouring rain.
Last year the Neighborhood Association had to deliver the presents in a foot and a half of snow.
The Neighborhood Association Christmas Adopt-a-Family program plans delivering the donations to the two selected families on December 20, 2009.
For those people who signed up for items at the holiday party and have not dropped off their items, please call Lisa at: 503-659-7807 so a time can be coordinated for drop off.
Thank you to everyone who have donated to help out the families!