CITY-NEIGHBORHOOD ADVISORY COMMITTEES
Ready to be a part of something great?
Come be a part of the Cliff Cannon Neighborhood Council (CCNC) and help shape the future of our wonderful community.
There are nine key City-Neighborhood Committees and two programs that need CCNC volunteer representation. We need volunteers to represent Cliff Cannon Neighborhood to serve on City-Neighborhood Advisory Committees.
We need your help so others stay informed about important issues. Volunteers can be a renter or a homeowner or a business owner. Volunteers attend monthly meetings, pass on Neighborhood concerns, and collect information to share with the Neighborhood.
Without active volunteers, many issues of concern will fall to the wayside. As a volunteer, you provide a short report to the Executive Committee [of which you can also be a member] if urgent action is needed, or you can present at monthly meetings if the issue is not urgent. These Committees are a great way to learn about how our City functions and interacts with its residents.
STANDING COMMITTEES
REPRESENTATION / NEIGHBORHOOD CONTINUITY
This Community Assembly Committee (CA) supports and promotes the “growth of Neighborhood Councils through training, education, and engagement opportunities, with input from the Neighborhood Councils.” Cliff Cannon values its sense of place and safety. We stopped a proposed intrusion of inappropriately located cell towers by getting the City ordinances changed. We encourage street trees and safety for pedestrians. We love our eclectic housing stock and our urban sidewalk grid. We need our point of view represented in City decision making
TRANSPORTATION
PETT Pedestrian Traffic and Transportation Committee
As a walkable neighborhood, where an estimated 40% of residents do not drive cars, CCNC sees sidewalks for pedestrians, bike lanes, and safe transit stops not as resident amenities but as an essential part of our transportation infrastructure. Other car-centered neighborhoods and many city staffers seem to think roads and cars are more important. Fewer City funds are spent on sidewalks, bike lanes, and transit stop safety/comfort. Americans with Disability Act regulations require that the City maintain sidewalks for everyone but many of our 100+ year plus sidewalks are in terrible, unsafe condition.
DEVELOPMENT
PETT [Pedestrian Traffic and Transportation]
Development North of I-90 can have direct impacts on Cliff Cannon. We keep a close eye on south-end downtown projects that impact traffic and quality of life in our Neighborhood. Madison Street, just north of I-90, was illegally closed off for almost 5 years to benefit a large car dealership. We worked to reverse that closure. The City is required to inform CCNC about demolition and new development projects so we can comment on potential issues like traffic etc. Past volunteer projects: bumpouts on Maple and Walnut, improved bus stop at 7th Ave and Walnut, speed signs, and the pedestrian crossing at Walnut and 14th Ave.
DENSE RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT
Using zoning maps and ordinances, the City has for many years targeted our Neighborhood for conversion to high density housing. CCNC believes that denser housing should be spread throughout the City. Denser development in Cliff Cannon should look like it belongs here and existing infrastructure in CCNC should not be impacted until upgraded. The sewer and stormwater infrastructure is often connected to 100+ year old clay pipes. Many of these clay pipes are in compromised conditions with limited capacity to expand. Lower portions of Cliff Cannon can experience flooding during storm events from impervious surface development farther up the South Hill.
Zoning maps found here show how we have been targeted for 50+ years for denser residential development and commercial development. CCNC is already densely developed, and has been historically, starting with boarding houses and elegant apartment houses in the early 1900’s, large home conversions to apartments housing for workers and military in World War II, and modern intrusive apartment developments that sprung up in the 1970’s.
NEIGHBORHOOD SAFTEY COMMITTEE
Focuses and researches monthly Neighborhood safety themes throughout the year to promote neighbor engagement in proactive crime prevention and building social capital. Examples of themes will be Paws on Patrol, traffic calming, abandoned vehicles, Neighborhood clean-up and Crime Prevention through Environmental Design (CPTED).
BUILDING STRONGER NEIGHBORHOODS
Works to provide training and resources to Neighborhoods to increase participation, identify and meet Neighborhood needs, and build capacity.
BUDGET COMMITTEE
Assists Neighborhood Councils financially through the budget process and, by doing so, to support and develop themselves to better serve their Neighborhoods.
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
Provides a forum for educating Neighborhood Councils regarding Community Development and CDBG (Community Development Block Grant) funding and making policy and other recommendations in regard to Neighborhood Councils funding to the CHHS (Community, Housing, and Human Services Board.)
LIAISON COMMITTEE
Maintain the City-established positions on advisory boards and commissions related to the Community Assembly and keep up to date a profile of basic information for each liaison and representative board and commission membership position related to the Community Assembly, including a position-specific statement of duties and responsibilities
COMMUNICATIONS COMMITTEE
Reviews effective communication of the Committees with the Community Assembly