4th Warder

News and Notes for Residents of South Euclid's Ward 4 from Councilwoman Jane Goodman.

My Photo
Name:
Location: South Euclid, Ohio

Wednesday, February 22, 2006

Quick news notes

Hi, all.

MARK YOUR CALENDAR - OUR FIRST WARD 4 MEETING WILL BE MARCH 20, 6PM til 9-ish, ROWLAND SCHOOL GYM, the corner of Wrenford and Bayard. We'll be organizing street clubs, block watches, and getting people involved in handy helper corps and other neighborhood improvement programs. We'll have information, we'll get your ideas, and it's going to be the start of a new spirit for our corner of the city. Please come.

I'm in the process of dropping off the latest issue of the 4th Warder newsletter, so if you find it in your door or rolled in your banister, please don't think it's an ad for landscaping and throw it away.

Residents of Warrendale, Wyncote, E. Antisdale and Grosvenor also get a heads-up preview of the housing inspection letter, the official version of which will come from the building department next month. I just wanted to give folks advance warning in case we have more gorgeous days like today, and you want to get a head start on fixing up the homestead. When I printed the letter, I put the streets listed above in bold, to signify that those are the only streets in our ward being inspected this season. Someone who received the newsletter/inspection handout today has already called the building department complaining that printing those streets in bold was some kind of discrimination. I just did that so that the people on those streets would take note that their street is up for inspection. If I knew who it was that called, I'd tell her...hey, I live on Wyncote, one of the bolded streets, so cut me a break here.

Council had its strategic planning retreat last night...we talked about what our major themes would be for the coming year. We're talking about the big picture stuff, not the meat-and-potatoes work of fix-this-fix-that service for our residents, which is of course our ongoing mission. This focused on what we want South Euclid to be, and how we want to get there.

Everyone agreed that one of the major tasks will be to get people committed to building stronger neighborhood ties with street clubs and block watches, etc. That community infrastructure will allow us to communicate better with residents, allow residents to communicate better with each other and treat each other as partners in more open, close and respectful ways.

We want to find ways to improve the housing stock, with curb appeal being an important key to raising property values and attracting a new breed of creative, active professionals, young families and homebuyers who will invest in the community and stay for a while.

We want South Euclid to be the place people want to live and work in, not because they can't afford to live elsewhere but because it's a terrific place to settle down. We want to make our city a model of the new American suburb, with wonderful places to play and shop, and not just because our great location makes it easy to get other places, but because it's easy to get what we want right here.

The rebirth of Cedar Center and plans for Mayfield-Green and Monticello-Green are taking us closer to that goal. So stay tuned for exciting things to come.