9/4/2008

Post date: Mar 23, 2013 9:15:21 PM

River Oaks Neighborhood Association Board Meeting

Thursday September 4, 2008

7:00 PM @ Premier Pizza, River Oaks

Present: Jean, Laura, Mike, Rhonda, Erik

  • Neighborhood Watch Ideas: An unfortunate incident requiring police involvement has happened in our neighborhood. RONA-Board discussed the situation and what can be done to make the neighborhood safer. RONA is working on putting together a Safety Meeting with a police speaker to address safety issues particular to our community. Rhonda has taken the action of looking into this.

  • Park Naming -- If you would like to nominate a name for the Sony/Irvine park, fill out this form and deliver it to the location specified at the bottom before October 1st. (RONA-Board likes the name "River Oaks Park", but that's just a suggestion.)

  • Discussion of the upcoming Envision San Jose 2040 meetings, a Candidate Forum For SCC Supervisor District #3 run by BCAC.

  • The water district is unhappy with the un-permitted stairs on the levee at the boundary between Parkside and 405 ROP. Our official position is: 1) We do not support members breaking the law, nor do we have any information regarding who committed the offense. 2) Given that this unauthorized construction seems to indicate a pressing need for structures at these locations, we would like to highly encourage the construction of official levee access ramps where indicated. In other news from that corner, discussion is ongoing between the city and Parkside HOA about the unexpected locking of the gates between Parkside and the levee.

  • Discussion of the current politics between the city and the school district: the Mayor has promised $75 million, a school site (the south end of Agnews), and a high-school site north of Hwy 237. In response, the Mello-Roos is off he ballot. The only complication is that in the current state fiscal crisis, the state may try to raid the city's redevelopment coffers for cash.

  • Essex is looking at selling off one of their proposed buildings to an affordable housing concern. (Note that $70k is the cutoff for qualifying for affordable housing in this area.)

  • The NSJ website is showing almost residential 8,000 units have been approved, which is the cutoff for closing out Phase 1. This would halt all permit activity for future phases until all the approved projects were under construction, along with required infrastructure.