Do you need sidewalks or bike routes in your neighborhood? ACHD has an online survey and is hosting an open house on June 20, 2019 at the First Congregational United Church of Christ – 2201 Woodlawn Ave.
Click here for more information.
There will be an open house on Wednesday, May 8 from 4:00 – 6:30 pm at the Lander Street Water Renewal Facility, 790 Lander St., Boise, ID 83703. Please stop by to learn more about the planned improvements, construction schedule, and what to expect in the near future.
For more information, visit https://publicworks.cityofboise.org/LanderStreet
Greetings Neighbors!
While the dust is still in the air from the State Street and Veterans Park Boulevard road construction, the dust has settled from our recent re-organization. We have recently re- configured the boundaries of The Veterans Park Neighborhood Association so it can better serve the needs of you and your immediate neighbors. Now more than ever, the Veterans Park Neighborhood Association needs you!
In the past, the sheer size of the Veterans Park Neighborhood has made it hard to focus on the issues near at home. However, our new boundaries incorporate only the area west of Veterans Park Boulevard to the Collister Shopping Center, and the River to the south and Taft Street to the north. With the smaller area, we can now focus more on our immediate neighborhood.
VPNA’s mission is to support a unified voice for the community that we live in. Which means, we are here to lobby the city, ACHD, and other local organizations on behalf of our residents, and to have a say in the decisions that affect our neighborhood. We are not a homeowners association, and we are NOT here to collect dues or levy fines for petty code violations. But if you have a concern about things going on in the neighborhood, or potential developments or issues that affect your neighborhood, then this is what we are here for.
But this is where we need you. We need your input on the decisions being made right now that affect our neighborhood. Have an idea for an improvement in our parks and common areas? There may be city grant money available we can apply for. Have an issue affecting us? Bring it to our board! Want to help host an event to help our community? Bring your idea!
We are having a general annual meeting on Tuesday, April 24th at the Collister Community Church at 6:30 PM. If you would like to attend, everyone is invited- there will be free food and beverages. We are also looking for volunteers to be on the board. Our board meets no more than once per month (or as needed) for 45-90 minutes, to discuss issues in our neighborhood and if necessary, vote on a course of action. If you are interested in being involved, then by all means, come to our annual meeting and sign up!
NEIGHBORHOOD ISSUES:
With everything going on, we hope to keep neighbors informed as to what is going on and if possible, empower people to be pro-active on things that are happening. Right now, some of the biggest issues we face are:
– The ongoing road project at 36th St, State Street, and Veterans Park Boulevard, which continues to have a negative impact on everyone who lives in and commutes through our area. We hope to be more pro-active and mitigate some of the impacts when future road projects, such as the planned re-design of Collister and State Street, are scheduled to start.
– Protecting community assets, which include our parks, our schools, and the Greenbelt. As we speak, Greenbelt access is shut off at Veterans Park, and many people are keenly aware that it has been nearly 10 years since a person from our neighborhood could ride continuously from Willow Lane to Julia Davis Park without encountering fences and barricades along the path. We hope to work with the city department of Parks and Recreation to protect and preserve Greenbelt access for now and into the future.
JOIN US for our ANNUAL NEIGHBORHOOD MEETING
On APRIL 24th 6:30 PM
At the Collister Community Church,
4709 W. State Street
Boise Parks and Recreation is considering converting the 2 existing tennis courts at Willow Lane Park into pickleball courts. This project will entail moving and adding some nets and painting some new lines; but will all occur within the existing footprint of the tennis courts. Pickleball courts are smaller than traditional tennis courts, so they can accommodate 4 pickleball courts within the same area as 2 tennis courts.
MATT MIGNANELLI
Pickleball is a sport that has been steadily growing in our community, and because the existing tennis courts are in need of refurbishment, it presents the City with excellent opportunity to provide for additional pickleball court needs in this area of town. Boise Parks and Recreation is reaching out to you to see if you would like to provide any feedback on their proposal. If there are no issues, they will look at doing the work this summer.
For any other information, comments, or questions please contact Trevor Kesner at tkesner@cityofboise.org or (208) 608-7624.
On Monday night the new West End Neighborhood Association had its first meeting. If you would like to be added to the West End NA mailing list, please email westendboise@gmail.com.
After many months of labor, the West End now has its own neighborhood association. If you live in the West End, please come to our historic first meeting to help elect a new board of directors. Consider running yourself! Board members attend monthly board meetings and get involved in other projects, if they wish. We will also vote on a set of new bylaws, which a transition committee has been putting together over the past two months. (You can read the bylaws at the link below.) And we’ll have an update about development on 27th St. and news about a grassroots effort to make cycling in Boise safer and easier by linking existing bikeways. Please join us on Monday, Feb. 5, at 6:30 p.m. at Whittier Elementary School, 301 N 29th St. If you wonder if you live in the West End, click on the link to the neighborhood association map below.
VPNA is hosting a public meeting to vote on a proposed split of the neighborhood association. The proposal is for the eastern part of the neighborhood to leave the VPNA and become the West End Neighborhood Association. The western part of the current neighborhood association would remain the VPNA. Please join us on Monday, December 4 at 6:30 pm at Davis Park Apartments multi-purpose room.
Wednesday, October 4 at the Boise Bicycle Project (1027 Lusk)
6:30pm forum, 8:00pm meet&greet.
English, Spanish, Arabic, and ASL supported.
Via Casey Mattoon of the Sierra Club:
The event will focus on five areas: transportation, sustainability, civil rights & protections, fair & affordable housing, and equitable economic development. The event is nonpartisan, free and open to the public.
Please join us for the Neighborhood Night Out party this Tuesday, August 1 at 6:30pm. The event takes place in the Davis Park Apartments courtyard between 28th, 29th, Jordan, and Gooding streets, and features free ice cream and hamburgers!
