Tell Us What You Want Your Neighborhood To Look Like at the SGNA Neighborhood Meeting – Thurs. April 19

The conditions along Broadway/Weidler and the opportunity this area represents to the Sullivan's Gulch neighborhood, extending from 16th to 33rd Avenues on the south side of the street, is on everyone minds n this neighborhood.  We want to hear your ideas, visions, for what you'd like to see happening in your neighborhood.  The changes aren't going to happen by themselves, so if we want to improve the quality of life in Sullivan's Gulch, we must act as a community to improve these conditions.

The general meeting of SGNA this year will be held on Thursday, April 19 at Grace Memorial Episcopal Church from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM (enter off the parking lot on NE 16^th and Weidler). 

We'll start off with updates about what's happening in the neighborhood at 6:30 PM and the election of new Board members.  The SGNA Board is an interesting and rewarding experience — and this could be your first elected office! 

At 7 pm we'll begin the planning neighborhood visioning charette.  (A charette is a public planning process that brings interested parties together to share ideas and develop a common vision.)  This is when the fun begins.  The charette will begin with a slide, map presentation, which will scope our area from a wider more regional view down to the neighborhood level. We will have tables set up throughout the room in order to create smaller, more intimate groups so that we can speak personally about what we like and don't like.  After the slide presentation, there will be maps on which the table groups may record their ideas.  Near the end of the process, each table will report to the group about the main ideas that emerged from the discussion and their table.   

 SGNA understands clearly that the sector of the Broadway corridor impacting SG is part of a 2-1/2 mile commercial area that extends from the Broadway Bridge to Hollywood (of course it extends much farther east as well) and we have reached out (and continue to reach out) to other neighborhoods along the Broadway alignment to join with us in our efforts.  We are also working with the NE Broadway Business Association (NEBBA) to the same end.

 Please join us for this important and, we hope, fun event.  Each of us brings unique perspective and special expertise that can help stimulate ideas and guide us to real, specific information that will help in future efforts.  We all look forward to seeing you at the meeting.

See you on Thursday evening.