Each year the Asheville City Council holds a retreat to measure our progress on last year’s stated goals and to set goals for the coming year.

Last year’s City Council Strategic Goals are here. You’ll see that we met or exceeded a lot of them.

This Friday we’ll come together at UNC-Asheville’s Sherrill Center. The meeting is open to the public and takes place from 8:30am-4pm.

If you were setting Strategic Goals and Priorities for the City of Asheville, what would be your top three? I welcome any input you can offer in advance of the date.

Thanks to the YMCA’s Pioneering Healthier Communities for spreading the word about a community meeting coming up Feb. 6. City Planners are looking at moving forward on the 2002 Charlotte St. Corridor Plan. The plan includes three-laning a part of Charlotte St. to allow for broader sidewalks and added bike lanes. Attend this meeting to get the facts and share your input.

Below is information regarding a public input meeting to discuss potential changes to the traffic patterns on Charlotte Street. We encourage you to attend the meeting if you live in the area to hear about the potential changes and share your voice!

ASHEVILLE – A community meeting to discuss the Charlotte Street corridor, originally scheduled for Mon. Jan. 23, has been rescheduled for Mon. Feb. 6 at 6:30 p.m. in the auditorium of the Jewish Community Center at 236 Charlotte Street. Members of the community will have an opportunity to hear from City of Asheville transportation department staff concerning concepts for changing the traffic pattern for the Charlotte Street corridor between the I-240 bridge and the intersection with Edwin Place.

The meeting was organized in response to a request by a group of neighborhood and business representatives that the city revisit the 2002 Charlotte Street Transportation Enhancement Study.

City staff will present data from recent traffic studies and information about potential elements that could be included in the design if the project is developed for implementation. Input from neighborhood residents and area businesses is an essential next step before a project proposal is developed.

For more information about the meeting, contact Jeff Moore, City of Asheville Traffic Engineer at 232-4586 or jmoore@ashevillenc.gov.

Kelly Ingram
Pioneering Healthier Communities Office Assistant
YMCA OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA

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Your Asheville City Council comes together this Tuesday for another session of deliberation and decision-making. Over the fold you’ll find the agenda, and if you click here you can see it with all supporting documents at the City website.

Please let me know your questions, suggestions, opinions, and harangues in the comments section. As usual, it’s best to do that before Council decides.

Some highlights upcoming include: Proposed ordinances to create a permitting process for camping, movement on the Reed Creek Greenway, proposal to rezone a parcel in South Asheville to high density, amendment to the standards regulating push carts and encroachments on public sidewalks, report from the Ethnic Minority Business Alliance.

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Since 2009, anytime there’s a fifth Tuesday in a month, your Asheville City Council has been taking the show on the road. Getting out of City Hall and into communities and neighborhoods gives us all a chance to share our successes and concerns. It also gives folks who might not be inclined to travel downtown an opportunity to come together and be a part of their government. Councilman Chris Pelly sent this notification to his peeps on the east side, and I thought I’d share it here as well.

Dear Neighbor,

Mark your calendar for Tuesday, January 31st at 6:30pm when Asheville City Council will host a public meeting in Haw Creek Elementary School. During months when there is a fifth Tuesday, council holds community meetings in rotating sections of the city. The last time council met in east Asheville was August 31st, 2010 at Groce United Methodist Church.

The primary purpose of this meeting is to update the community about on-going projects affecting east Asheville and the greater community. East Asheville residents will also have an opportunity to share concerns, complaints, and compliments about how city government is doing.

Since council last met in east Asheville, progress on sidewalks and making our community safer for pedestrians has advanced. Now, as a member of Asheville City Council, I want to build on this success. Please plan to join us January 31st to speak to this and other needs of east Asheville.