Neighborhood Community Meeting

Exciting news. Today in the mail I received notice of an upcoming neighborhood community meeting to be held one week from tonight (next Wednesday 2/8) at the Thelma Terry Center (2200 Virginia Avenue) from 7:00 to 8:30pm. The notice reads:

Join your neighbors and the City of Santa Monica to discuss traffic concerns on the following streets in your neighborhood:

-32nd, 33rd and 34th Streets between Pico and Ocean Park Boulevards, and
-Pearl Street between 32nd Street and Centinela Avenue.

Residents of your (my) neighborhood have expressed concern about unsafe travel on streets to the City of Santa Monica. Please attend the meeting to:

-Share your ideas and concerns with your neighbors and City staff,
-Meet Fire, Police and Transportation Management Staff,
-Hear about volume and speed traffic data about on your neighborhood streets,
-Learn about the City of Santa Monica’s neighborhood traffic policies, and
-Discuss what can be done to make neighborhood streets safer.

I have decided that I will be attending said meeting. I’ve never been to a community meeting before, and I think that it could really be very exciting (I wonder if they’ll have coffee and maybe some pastries or something?), as well as highly informative (not to mention the obvious potential for serious comedy that is present whenever a group of people get together to discuss stuff - especially traffic concerns).

I invite anyone who will be in the area to join me there (presumably if you live in the area you are already well aware of this meeting, because you probably got one of these notices in the mail as well).

I promise to report back to all of you the details of the meeting (I will probably bring my voice recorder to get it all on tape), and please for those of you who cannot attend feel free to let me know if you have any concerns or ideas that you would like me to express on your behalf, I’d be more than willing.

Well, there you have it…the coutdown begins…