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North Park Estates Neighborhood Association board
minutes Tuesday January 24, 2006 The Board
of Directors meeting of the North Park Estates Neighborhood Association
included: Members present
The Board Meeting was held at Dale and Greta Sellers' home Tuesday, January 24, 2006. Attendance indicated above.
Call to Order. The President, Dale Sellers, called the
meeting to order and passed out the agenda. OLD
BUSINESS 1. The Minutes of the last meeting were on
the website and those who had reviewed them approved them. 2. Larie Amsler then gave the Treasurer's
Report.
A. J. Walker
moved that the report be approved. Lou McCoy seconded. It was
approved. 3. The Entrance
Sign Committee reported that recently the Variance Department of the City of
Austin had been totally unwilling to consider the variance we need to put the
new proposed Entrance Signs in or near their current location. They require that we put them much deeper
into the lots - locations which are not at all acceptable to us and to the
landowners. Therefore after a Sign
Committee meeting to determine what to do next, the city's Sign Ordinances were
read online, and it was determined that perhaps redrawing the plans to make
the signs only 30" above the level grade of the ground, and having a total
square footage of 128 square feet, might satisfy the city, according to
Article 25-10-191 Sign Setback Requirements. (Our current signs' low parts on which the words are, are from 15 3/4"
high to 32" above ground level - which is unlevel. The combined square footage of our previously proposed signs
was 156 square feet.) Gene McCoy
moved that we try that, and Jessica Curie seconded that, and that course of
action was approved. If that approach
fails, it was agreed that we will appeal to the City Council for what we
want. Failing that technique working,
we can probably get a permit to maintain our current signs at their current
locations. However, since we have
raised money to build NEW signs - with a sturdy foundation, we want to
exhaust all avenues to do that before resorting to disappointing all of our
neighbors by just maintaining the 40 year old signs which have come into
disrepair. 4. Dale Sellers
showed the group the real estate type signs which had been purchased for
placement in the medians to house temporary signs regarding neighborhood
events, such as meetings and neighborhood garage sales. The signholders were quite acceptable to all. They cost $17.32 each. There was no
other old business. NEW BUSINESS 1. Guillermo
Rosales, a close neighbor of our neighborhood, reported that the northeast
corner of Braker Lane at Parkfield has been sold to NW Petroleum. This company has requested a Conditional
Use Permit from the City of Austin and is proposing the construction of a
Church's fried chicken restaurant and a Shell gas station/convenience store
combination. Discussion was unanimous
that this type of business at that location is undesirable and unacceptable
to us as a neighborhood association. Guillermo provided a sheet of information on it with website addresses
at which further information may be obtained. The link to the case information is: http://www.ci.austin.tx.us/gis/reviewcases/rcase_detail.cfm?hid=287311&type=SITE The application
document is at: http://coagis1.ci.austin.tx.us/outputI1510264329.TIF For more
information, one can contact Nikki Hoelter, Case Manager at 974-2863. 2. A Neighborhood Watch Group meeting was
discussed next. It was decided that
Jessica Curie will get out a flyer to homes on those streets or parts of
streets which need a Block Captain, asking for a volunteer from each area to
assume that job. A special meeting of
Block Captains will then be held and plans will be made there to have Block Captains
try to update or create a list of those living in their area, and to
encourage small group social activities so that neighbors can get acquainted
with one another better. The overall
goal is to be able to protect ourselves from "the criminal element". Perhaps a Police Department representative
will be invited to the special meeting, to give direction to the
process. Many good ideas were
suggested to create neighbors getting better acquainted with each other. 3. The Neighborhood Spring Garage Sale was
discussed, and it was decided to hold it on April 22nd.The signs used last year can be easily
modified for this date. Advertising
in the newspaper and in Craig's List was considered. 4. The May meeting and picnic was scheduled
for May 6th from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. 5. Carol Fritz informed the group that Connie
Groce, aged 94, had passed away recently. Carol and Larie Amsler will discern from Connie's family whether it is
most desirable to send flowers to Connie's Memorial Service or to give
another type of memorial gift from the neighborhood association. 6. Larie Amsler brought up the fact that the
wooden fence along Braker Lane had been damaged recently by a trailer that
had gotten loose and run into it. She
intended to call the City of Austin and asked them to repair it. (The day after the meeting, she did this
and a work crew came out that very day and appeared to work on it. Larie found out that the City did not get
into the budget for 2006 the money to replace that fence, so will continue to
repair it this year as needed.) 7. A motion
to adjourn was made and seconded, and the meeting was adjourned. Footnotes: Board meeting dates are
located at: http://www.main.org/northpark/#bodmtgdates Archived Board minutes
can be reviewed at: http://www.main.org/northpark/northparklinks.html#minutes |
Minutes Revised 12/31/2005 20:01:04