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Topic

Presenter

1

5 min

Approve June minutes.

Treasurer's Report.

T-shirt sales

Bill Bailey

Carl Nyberg

James Judd

2

10 min

Introductions - your name, neighborhood and quickly state any Issue / Success to share or to add to agenda.

Bill Bailey (View Point) – neighborhood watch underway and new mail boxes.

Marianna Bailey

James Judd (Chunns Cove)

Robert Zieber (Biltmore Park) New Town Center continues to develop with new stores and streets opening.

Debbie Applewhite (Beverly Hills)

Josh OConnor (Oakley) starting OakleyCommunity.com and listserv.  Helping out with Manna Fest N’hood food drive.

Stephanie OConnor (Oakley)

Carl Nyberg (Kenilworth)
Tom Rightmyer (Crowfields) as of July 2^nd was able to sell house in Norwood Park.  Meeting of South Asheville folks on Monday Sept 14, Monday 4 pm at Crowfields Club House.

Lauren Bradley (Assistant to City Manager)

Kim Hamel (Fletcher)

Judy Daniel (Grace, Planning Director) power outage and city fixed very quickly.

Mike Lewis (Grace) Had n’hood walk with Jessica the City Planner representing the Northern section of city.

Barb Melton (Haw Creek) community picnic is later this month.  Have had problems with break ins into cars, police reacted quickly, but no suspects yet.

Marsha Stickford (City N’hood Coordinator)

Round the Table

3

20 min

Quality of Life Court  As part of its strategic plan for 2008-09, Asheville City Council affirmed a goal to pursue establishing partnerships to form a nuisance court to address low-level crimes that, if left unaddressed, erode the community’s quality of life. At its May 26, 2009 meeting, the Asheville City Council directed staff to establish relationships with key community partners involved with the justice system and, with their support, develop a detailed implementation plan and budget for launching a nuisance court.  A lot of times by the time someone makes it to court they get sentenced to time served thus not creating accountability.  Part of hope for court is that accountability will be associated with improving the quality of life.  Hope to process cases efficiently and quickly.  Punishments might include community service so that offendor may have opportunity to restore quality of life that the have harmed.  Some communities have options may include and incorporate treatment as part of the sanction of crime committed.  Asheville is thinking about incorporating treatment options on a more voluntary basis and also trying to  be proactive.  If you look at the cost of enforcement, jailing, etc that it is not sustainable the price of prevention starts to make sense.  Interested in tracking recidivism with goal to keep people from cycling through system.  Picking up litter, sweeping sidewalks, putting down mulch, etc.  Looking for balanced approach  but believe it is Council’s intent to take crimes seriously and look at finding root cause solutions.  Lauren is spearheading the effort to meet with stakeholders including judges, public defenders, Downtown Association, DARN, county resources.  Partnering with County has been looking at a lot of innovative programs including making sure offenders get hooked.  Reaching out to Sheriff’s office

Experience shows that this type of court is successful with community buy-in.

Types of offenses include pan handling, public intoxication, solicitation, etc. 

being called the Quality of Life Court.

Community service portion would be managed by community.  If you have ideas, contact Lauren Bradley, LBradley@ashevillenc.gov.

Shooting to present plan to City Council on Aug 11 with a goal of a September launch.

In this court, will have same judge and district attorney every time.

Focusing downtown and on certain types of crime to minimize start up and then can expand to more areas and more crimes as appropriate.

Lauren Bradley

(Assistant to the City Manager)

4

5 min

Volunteer for July 16 Down Town Survey – see information below.  Intent is to get hard data on who is downtown and ask them 5 questions.

Amy Sawyer

5

Economic IV to P&Z on August 5.  Economic III to Council on Aug 11.  Height of accessory discussed at CAN will be in Economic V.  Downtown Master Plan.  Bill about extending all existing building permits to 2010 still moving forward at the State Level. 

Kim Hamel

Judy Daniel (intro)

6

5 min

Questions for City Council Brainstorm – to prepare for city council candidate invitations to the CAN meeting we will start a brainstorm of questions for candidates which will be continued on the listserv.

Joe Masters

7

10 min

Affordable Housing Working Group update on issue including outcome of July 9^th meeting concerning $500k stimulus for homeless prevention and four questions raised about a Transit Overlay District:

(1) What are the criteria for where the Overlays should be applied?

(2) What should the design features / standards be? What must it include to be successful?

(3) What should the incentives be?

(4) What doesn't work? What would make this idea fail?       

With the experience of the Merrimon Avenue proposal at hand what can we learn to help a future proposal?

Tom Rightmyer

8

3-5 min

2-3 min

3-5 min

Storm water Ordinance – Update on revisions to the COA Stormwater Ordinance, now scheduled for August 5, 2009.

Flood Reduction Taskforce:  Update on issue

Steep Slope:  Update on issue

Robert Zieber

Tom Rightmyer

Barber Melton

9

tbd

Additional Agenda Items – If you are seeking advice from CAN, have an interest to share, etc. we look forward to hearing from you.  If possible please send an email to board@ashevilleCAN.org in advance.  Together we can build better neighborhoods.

Open to All

1:15 to 1:30

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