Neighborhood Action Requested

The October and November GCA meetings will be the last opportunity to provide comments on the Glencarlyn Neighborhood Conservation Plan (NCP).  If you can’t attend the meeting, please email comments to Peter Olivere at polivere@aol.com by November 2.. 

We will be voting on three specific recommendations in chapter 7 at the October 1st meeting, 7-A, 7-F and 7-G to resolve some questions left by the June survey..    

Background

As part of the Neighborhood Conservation program, the County has each neighborhood or community association prepare and periodically update a Neighborhood Conservation Plan (NCP).  We are in the final stages of the first update to the Glencarlyn NCP, which was originally approved in 1978. 

The NCP is a document which serves many purposes, such as a) providing the basis for all County funded Neighborhood Conservation investments and activities,  b) defining for the County staff what is important and needs to be done in the neighborhood,  and c) providing a framework for neighborhood based efforts to make our community stronger and more livable.

There has been a lot of work to date on the Glencarlyn NCP (see section below), but we want to make sure everyone has an opportunity to review the draft before we submit the NCP to the County.  

Efforts To Date

Over three years ago, the Glencarlyn Citizens’ Association began the process of rewriting our Neighborhood Conservation Plan.  This is the first revision since the initial plan was approved in 1978.

The efforts included: an initial questionnaire in 2004 to determine the key concern of the community; updating the prior plan to reflect Glencarlyn in the 21st century; a substantial amount of time developing recommendations based on the results of the 2004 questionnaire and comments received; and putting a copy of the draft plan on the website and providing the community an opportunity to provide input on 114 possible recommendations with a survey in June of 2007.  We had 79 responses to the June survey.  We then invited anyone who had worked on the plan to participate in a review of the responses to develop a final proposed set of recommendations for community review. The current count  is 82.  There were a number of recommendations dropped and a number consolidated into groups. 

Documents Available

Below are links to four documents in pdf format.  There is a lot of information here.  If you are interested in the recommendations, and what happened since the June survey, look at #2.  If you want to see in more detail why a specific recommendation was changed or dropped, look in #3. 

Read only copies of the all of these are available in the Glencarlyn library (ask at the desk for Draft Neighborhood Conservation Plan ).

1)  Draft Glencarlyn NCP plan  - 10 Chapters with proposed recommendations and appendices which is what we propose to send to the County as a draft for review (modified with any changes from the October or November meeting) 74 pages.

Draft Plan   (as of Sept 25, 2007 ) 1.5 megabytes  (lots of pictures)

2)  Review of the Recommendations in the plan – with NCP committee comments on changes made or deletions of recommendations which were in the June 2007 survey - 13 pages.

Review of Recommendations (as of Sept 23, 2007 ) 118 kilobytes

3)  Numerical Analysis of the June 2007 survey – including all comments included on the responses to the surveys - 37 pages.

 Numerical Analysis of Survey  (as of Sept 26, 2007 ) 278 kilobytes  (lots of pictures)

4)  Survey responses by question and block from the June 2007 survey - 6 pages

Survey Data by Block  193 kilobytes

Next Steps

We want to finalize any input to the NCP at the November 5 GCA meeting, and send it to the County as a draft for review.  Since we used both an initial questionnaire in 2004 and a follow-up survey last June, we believe that we have provided substantial opportunity for widespread community input on the recommendations to the NCP.  Therefore we are not going to go through the NCP at a GCA meeting.  The draft plan and proposed recommendations are available at the library (read only) and at glencarlyn.org.  The material includes the narrative sections, with preliminary picture and maps, the proposed recommendations, a numerical analysis of the responses for each June survey recommendation and a discussion of other changes made by the NCP committee. 

We have highlighted a few places where we would like some further community clarification before we submit to NCP to the County.  We will discuss those specific issues at the October meeting. 

To ensure that we have a completely open process, we will provide time on the agenda at both the October and November meetings to answer any questions or accept any comments.  You can also send comments to polivere@aol.com.  Once we submit the plan to the County for review, we will not be making additional changes to the recommendations.   Below is the schedule we hope to maintain leading to NCP approval by the GCA next spring.