Kleinhans Community Association
Newsletter
JANUARY 2000
H a p p y N e w Y e a r ! !
2000 Meeting Schedule. We will continue to meet on the 3rd Wednesday evening of each month, but in January, we will be meeting on the 12th, because of traffic calming issues (see Traffic Calming below). Meetings are held at 7:00 PM at First Presbyterian Church (tower door next to the parking lot). The next few meetings are:
Wed. January 12, 2000 7:00 PM
Wed. February 16, 2000 7:00 PM
Wed. March 15, 2000 7:00 PM
Kudos to Michael La Shomb for getting two
abandoned houses at 357 and 359 Hudson St.
boarded. Housing inspections is currently working on
the abandoned properties by citing their owners for
housing violations.
New Porter Ave. Block Leader. Shane Stephenson
has agreed to serve as KCA Block Leader for Porter
Ave., helping to distribute newsletters and serving as
an information liaison for block club meetings. Thank
you Shane, and we certainly love your enthusiasm!
Shane can be reached at 884-3099.
KCA Bylaws. At the last KCA meeting, changes to
the organizational bylaws were reviewed and approved. Thanks to John Allen for
spearheading the
Bylaws Review Committee!
Community Crime Prevention Meeting. A problem
solving meeting between the community and the
Buffalo Police Department is scheduled for Tue. Jan
11, 2000 7PM at the Hamlin House on Franklin St.
The purpose of the meeting is to identify proactive
measures to keep the area around TOY (corner of
Mariner and Allen) safe and secure for those utilizing
the theatre. One of the first items is to identify public
safety concerns in our area. Please voice any concerns and/or issues you may have about public
safety
to Chris Brown, 884-1914 or cbrown4884@aol.com
(E-mail) no later than Monday night, 1/10/2000.
Snow Removal. Now that the winter weather is here, please be considerate of others and shovel your walks - it is appreciated by area pedestrians!
In order to improve snow plowing on
residential side streets, the Mayor's Office and City
Department Heads have developed an odd/even
parking program to be implemented during emergency snow fighting conditions. In the event of a
snow emergency, the Mayor will make a formal
announcement implementing odd/even parking rules.
The odd/even parking restrictions will begin at 8:00
a.m. and continue for 24 hours. If a snow emergency
were to be issued on an odd numbered date ending
in 1, 3, 5, 7, or 9, vehicles must be parked on the odd
side of your street. If a snow emergency were to be
issued on an even numbered date ending in 0, 2, 4,
6 or 8, vehicles must be parked on the even side of
your street. This plan will help to clear winter snow.
Orton Gardens. Planning is continuing on 20 Orton
Place community gardens with the assistance of
neighborhood residents and Grassroots Gardens.
The lot was recently leveled and we are currently
pursuing legal permission/liability issues in order to
use the lot for gardening and are researching methods of securing the land to preserve planned
improvements. Thanks to Coco Wozniak for her assistance!
Traffic Calming. Hopefully everyone in our community has either participated in public forums on traffic calming sponsored by Heart of the City Neighborhoods (HCN), attended meetings on the topic by the Fargo Estate Neighborhood Association or have had information sent to you by a resident from your block. Please take time to consider how traffic calming devices can be used to help calm traffic on your block. For your convenience, all 8 approved traffic calming devices have been reproduced on the back of this newsletter.
At our next KCA meeting on 1/12/2000, we plan to collect information and put your ideas together into one cohesive plan for our area which we will discuss and present at a HCN Traffic Calming Working Committee meeting scheduled for Thursday Jan. 13, 2000 at Towne Restaurant, 5:15 PM.
Rich Morrisroe from HCN will be present at
our next KCA meeting (1/12), so please attend or
ensure that your thoughts about traffic calming are
made known to your block traffic calming coordinator!
Kleinhans Community Association
c/o 34 Orton Place, Buffalo NY 14201
(716) 884-1914
Visit our web site on the Internet:
http://kleinhansca.org