East Buffalo Good Neighbors Planning Alliance
Agenda for:
Monday, January 24, 2011 from 5:30pm-7:00pm
Hennepin Community Center, 24 Ludington (off Bailey Ave.)
1) Welcome and Introductions
2) Review minutes
3) New Business
- Central Terminal Strategic Plan update (Yuri Hreshchyshyn)
- 2011 Livable Communities Grant Initiative Application is Available
4) Implementation Updates
Implementation Related to Neighborhood Planning, from published reports and ongoing initiatives:
– Seneca Babcock
- NYS DEC Fact Sheet for cleanup plan for the Former Buffalo China site
– Clinton Bailey
– Broadway Fillmore
- Wilson Street Urban Farm (Mark/Janice Stevens)
- Lower East Side Weed & Seed update
- Broadway Market and vicinity
- Broadway Fillmore Community Meeting held 12/18
– Emerson
- Hope Gardens Update (Matt Urban Center)
– Lovejoy
- Lovejoy Village Initiative 2015
– Kaisertown Coalition Update
5) Old Business
- Buffalo Green Code
- Project Know
- Community Gardens Task Force Update
- Update from Matt Urban Center
- Problem Property Priorities
- Status of Monitoring of Planning Board, Preservation Board, Zoning Board & Council meetings
6) Next meeting(s) dates and topics
7) Upcoming event(s) or announcements (Suggest yours by contacting bparke@city-buffalo.com)
HomeFront’s FREE Homebuyer Orientation Seminar! Wed. Feb. 9, 2011, 5:30pm to 6:30pm, Guest Speaker: Bank of America, Location: 560 Delaware Ave., Suite 101, Buffalo, Information About:
• $8,000 Closing Cost Grant,
• New Closing Cost and Rehabilitation Grant – up to $22,000.
• Closing cost program for purchase in the City of Buffalo – up to $5,000 “
“Welcome Matt Tours” at the Matt Urban Center scheduled for February-March: See http://www.urbanctr.org/images/Newsletter_V1_Issue1.pdf
Forgotten Buffalo Tours: 04/29/11, Pride of Polonia (Eastside), 5:30p, ON SALE NOW; visit http://www.forgottenbuffalo.com/departureboard.html
The East Buffalo GNPA includes the following neighborhoods; Babcock, Broadway Fillmore, Emerson, Kaisertown & Lovejoy. East Buffalo GNPA is a neighborhood-based planning organization that seeks to actively involve citizens in the creation of action plans for their communities.
