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Approved January minutes with a correction to remove Biltmore Park’s participation in the vote concerning the motion to support the I-26 Health Impact Assessment.

Treasurer's Report: January expenses of $17.60 for postage. Eight neighborhoods paid yearly dues. Balance 2/8/10 of $5734.

T-shirt sales ($7 each; $6 each for 3 or more)

James Judd

Carl Nyberg

James Judd

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Introductions - * representative of 2010 organizational member.

James Judd (Chunns Cove) is excited about progress towards forming a neighborhood group in the lower west section of Chunns Cove. He has been going door to door to discuss the neighborhood and has created a listserv, Ning networking site, and phone list.

Robert Zeiber (Biltmore Park)

Stephen Hudzik (Kenilworth)

Dakota Forgiom (Grove Park / Sunset Mountain)

Alan Escovitz (Grove Park / Sunset Mountain)

Jake Quinn (Grove Park / Sunset Mountain)

Grace Curry* (Grove Park / Sunset Mountain)

Mike Lewis*(Grace) continuing to monitor the proposed Mountain Housing Opportunities (MHO) development at the old Naval Reserve Center, off Merriman Ave above the Grace Station Post Office and across Larchmont Rd. from the fire station.

Marsha Stickford (Neighborhood Coordinator)

Susan Roderick (Montford & Asheville GreenWorks) Greenworks is advocating big Asheville Buncombe Cleanup whole month of April.

Judy Daniel (Planning Director)

Nathan Pennington – Planner and N’hood representative for East Asheville

Barber Melton* Haw Creek Community Association meeting in January. Planned for litter pick up day. Haw Creek resident will be designing trail (Dewayne Stutzman). Plan to have Memorial Day bike parade. Chris Pelly remains President and have new folks on board of directors.

Debbie Applewhite* (Beverly Hills) planning annual meeting in March about health of trees in Beverly Hills.

Joe Masters Emison (Montford) several month absence related to birth of twins. Montford will be voting on CAN membership in a few weeks. Rewrite of Historic Resource Guideline is tensely marching along. Believe things are going as well as they possibly could. Judy added that there are basic differences of opinion between extent that guidelines from Secretary of Interior can be stretched to accommodate. Joe also feels that the lack of Montford residents on the HRC is at the core of the problem. Creature of City Council and County Commission. One example is extent to which solar panels, storm windows, flagstone, and picket fence are allowed to be incorporated.

Carl Nyberg (Kenilworth) invite to Mardi Gras parade this Sunday afternoon starting around Magnolias at 2:37 pm.

Joe Minicozzi (Brucemont Circle) still struggling towards a n’hood meeting

Marcus Renner (West Asheville, Conservation Pros)

Round the Table

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Determine Quorum – 50% of members present thereby exceeding 33% quorum requirement.

James Judd

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Announcement: Quasi-Judicial and NC Planning Training – Feb 26, tuition sponsored for up to _ CAN members, contact exec@ashevilleCAN.org if interested.

Announcement: I-26 and Health Impact Study - Board voted via email to support Health Impact Assessment.

Follow Up: City Refuse Pickup – it was suggested at the January meeting to replace scheduled pickup (truck endlessly driving around the city) with on demand service. Cathy Ball (Public Works Director) will join us at the March meeting to share how a pilot project using GIS capabilities will improve the city’s capability to quickly and accurately identify and track repair issues (e.g. broken street light observed by garbage man) and its connection possibly to on demand refuse pickup.

Member commented on need / opportunity to send notices about leaves left in street etc.

James Judd

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UDO Re-Write project !! Joe Minicozzi, former CAN president, presented a plan to simplify and improve the Unified Development Ordinance (UDO) in a three step process as follows: step 1) simplify and condense without changing existing UDO content, step 2) 'no brainer' changes requiring Council and Staff action; step 3) tougher stuff requiring larger community conversation and Council action.

Joe provided two powerful examples of simplification that he has already completed as a model. The first example was condensing 72 pages of General use district information (e.g. units/acre; front setback) down to 2 pages by formatting as a district vs. requirement table. The second example was a use table which condenses 20+ pages of use lists for each district down to a 2 page table of uses (e.g. residential, retail) versus zoning districts (e.g. RS2; RM16) with review type at the intersection. The simplifications not only make the UDO more readable and functional but it also makes inconsistencies and problems more apparent and is expected to make step 2 and 3 easier for stakeholders to get their arms around.

While Joe and CAN have offered the use table and other simplifications in the past, his approach this time is to gain city council support for the project and to fund it primarily through non government sources including the Board of Realtors and to a lesser extent CAN (our budget is significantly less). Joe expects step 1 and 2 to require 1 month/or so apiece while the research for step 3 will begin with step 1.

Audience questions/suggestions: Joe Masters suggested inviting the Chamber to support. He was also interested in the data medium (i.e. software design), how it would hook into the City GIS, and how it would become sustainable for updates and control. It was noted that the current software, Municode, cost $9k per year on average and locks the community into an antiquated format and limited updates. Changing the UDO will require council approval and allows for community input.

The CAN Board voted unanimously in favor of a Resolution of Support and requested that a motion for additional support be brought forward once more information was available.

Joe Minicozzi

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Household Energy Efficiency - Marcus Renner provided a shortened version of a presentation which he offers to neighborhoods and other groups. He has presented to Haw Creek and is scheduled to present at Montford. Marcus promotes a holistic and building science approach to determining the most energy efficient investments for a home. Marcus noted many current opportunities for tax credits and rebates. For more information see the description at the bottom of the minutes or contact Marcus.

Marcus Renner

713-3346

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2010 Membership Drive Update – Debbie Applewhite and Christina Longoria are helping Mike Lewis (VP of Membership) in contacting neighborhoods.

The following 2009 members have rejoined for 2010: Beverly Hills, Crowfields, Grace, Grove Park / Sunset Mountain, Haw Creek, Oakley, Parkway Forest, South Oaks Townhouses.

The following 2009 members have yet to rejoin: Deerwood, Kenilworth, Redwood Forest, Shiloh. The Biltmore Park board has indicated they will not participate as a 2010 member.

The following neighborhoods have indicated their interest in joining: Five Points, Kenilworth Lake (especially with email voting option), Montford (next few weeks), Norwood Park.

Mike Lewis

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CAN Goals: A discussion of CAN goals for the next 6 months was begun with the following ideas: update brochure; focus on membership; reduce or eliminate membership dues or promote fee in lieu; seek more input from neighborhood organizations beyond core members; further define process and focus regarding advocacy and education efforts; Neighborhood Clean Up; don't lose hot topics amidst governance issues; provide update on Courtland, Greenlife, Staples etc. results; recruit CAN leaders for April elections and include a President in Training position; support and promote grass root projects such as improvements to the Traffic Calming Implementation Process by Grove Park / Sunset Mountain organization and Biltmore Park residents; CAN Congress; tape workshops for URTV to expand audience.

These goals will be further discussed and developed via the email listserv and future meetings.

James Judd

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Meeting Adjourned: 9:00 pm

James Jud