PROJECT UPDATES updated: July 26, 2010

Entrance Columns - updates

July 26, 2010
Holy cow! I thought the day would never get here. Our columns are finally going in. Just finished marking the location for them after Mitchell Davenport and David Bain removed the old signs. Our column guy will pour the footings tomorrow and anticipates that they will be done by the end of the week. I emailed everyone today so that you all know what is going on. Will keep you informed on the next step which is landscaping. (We may have to scooch over the road sign at the Brawood entrance.. .) I am not EVEN going to mention how we had to get forms notarized in triplicate, certificates of insurance, forms signed by the Mayor and probated....

Feb. 4, 2010
In the course of getting approved by the Right of Way Committee, The Engineering Department, The Traffic and Safety Department we learned we really needed to be incorporated so someone could legally sign off for our columns. We also are required to have a million dollars in insurance. Soooo, the lawyer will be finished with incorproation this coming week and we can get an estimate/prelim approval for insurance and then begin building the darn things! Egad! Who knew this would be such and an infernal pain... Huge big thanks to Mitchell Davenport who is driving the incorporation and making the contact with the insurance company AND with Riley Smith to build the columns. Will keep you informed.

Just so you know, I am thinking that once the columns are built we should get bids from a landscape company on what it would take to keep the 4 beds maintained year-round. Since we are incorporated we could have dues each year that will cover the cost of insurance and landscaping the entrance. Let's keep our neighborhood a desirable place to live and hope the homes for sale move off the market to fun new buyers quickly.

Dec. 4, 2009
Just spoke with my contact at the City Engineering/Right-of-Way department and he was walking our paperwork down the hall to the Chairman of the committee who will (or will not) approve our request. He apologized for letting the paperwork sit on his desk too long. I will learn next week when the meeting of the Committee will be. Mitchell Davenport is heading up things on the contracting side of thngs and he is basically waiting on having the City say Yes and issue us our permits. 

Oct. 5 -2009

OK - here is the deal with the columns. Jason Brown, who was our main column guy, has taken a job with a new company and is out of town too much to carry the project through. Susan Davenport and myself (Carolyn Miller) are proceeding forward. Susan is working on finding someone to work with us at Riley Stuart (the brick folks) - if someone has another source email us ASAP! I am working with the City. It ends up that we have to have drawings and a proposal with pictures, drawings, schematics, etc. to put before a Committee and upon approval have to be granted a Non-Utility Secondary Use Agreement before proceeding since our current signs are on City Right of Way. An inspector will dropping off a form for me tomorrow. The permits (upon approval) are only $6 per sq. yard -- so it won't be that much.

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Another BIG THANK YOU to John Vulevich and T. Harrison in the name of Live Oak Landscaping! They sent a generous check and we have now reached our goal!

WOW! Thank You Rob Walsh for the EXTRA generous donation that that will now allow us to get ths project DONE!!!!

As stated - any further donations will be used for landscaping - or we will go with the two nameplate option and use the funds already raised for plantings.

A meeting was held on Sunday, Feb. 24. Attending were: Susan Davenport, Lacey Bethea, Carolyn Miller, Madelaine Walsh, Jason Brown, Colleen Blackwell, Joanne Leon, and Laurie Crane as representatives from each of the streets in our neighborhood. Jason presented us with estimates for 4 columns -- 2 at each entrance to the neighborhood -- as well as a design and examples of bricks.

Thank you Jason Brown for preparing the estimate!!!!


Sidewalk Improvement - ongoing...
Bill Harkins who works for the City is working to find out what we can do about making the sidewalks that feed into our neighborhood from Springhill Ave. bike/wheelchair accessible. Currently they are either crumbled or in normal curb fashion that requires bikers to cut though grassy areas or dismount entirely.

Suggestions or questions? Contact Carolyn Miller or call 343-9640