Oakley Community Council
Brazee Street Studios – 4426 Brazee St
September 19, 2019; 7:00 PM
oakleycouncil@oakleynow.com
www.oakleynow.com
www.Facebook.com/Oakley45209
513-533-2039
Minutes
Present: Seth, Joe, Colleen, Sandy, Sean, Sandy, Dan
Absent: Cody, Jason, Jon, Evan, Dave
Tide Dry Cleaning: Brandon Gilstrap, marketing Manager
- · Grand Opening 8:5 on Saturday Oct 5
- · Ribbon Cutting (4pm 10/4)
- · Working being first LEED certified facility in the US
Approve 9/3 Minutes
Motion: Sean
Seconded: Dan
Yes: All
Abstain: None
Reminder: Oakley Master Plan is before Planning Commission 9/20 9:00AM
Oaktoberfest Recap – Joe Groh
- · Great turnout
- · Among the largest, if not the largest, volume of beer sold
- · Sold 14 Oakley Proud Series shirts
- · Had history timeline, before/now pictures, join OCC
- · Missed opportunity, more volunteers
Council Elections – elections coming up, get word out and look for interested parties.
City Council Rounds – Colleen Reynolds
- · Make rounds with council members to talk about our on goings
- · Invest In Neighborhood event at Madtree, 10/3
- o If interested in attending, send Colleen email
Prospective Pedestrian/Bike Bridge Next Steps – Dan Krohn
- · DOTE meeting with Neyer reps, OCC reps (Dan, Joe, Colleen)
- · Obstacles: Duke easement, RR height
- · Funding sources: CMAQ an option
- · General options 1-6 presented – 4 Bridge alternatives, 2 tunnel
- · Next step - engineering drawings, meet with all parties
Committee Updates & Discussion:
- · Business
- o Monthly Coffee Meetings – 1st Tuesday, 8am, RedTree
- o Joe & Kenny working on potential app (like the safety app) that would show listing of businesses who joined OCC
- · Economic Development & Zoning
- o Colleen would like to come up standard letters of support, etc.
- o Staff meeting city/Red Corner – traffic concerns, design aesthetics, rental vs owner
- o Hubbard ground breaking Wednesday
- o Northpoint tax abatement denied
- o HP Wasson Homes
- § HP asking us consider changing our support
- § Or letter/motion: “We move to support for the concept of six single family homes on Wasson Rd as presented by Ken French at the OCC meeting on June 4th. This support is subject to continuing review of the development from the city and feedback from the community advisement team.”
- § Been several meetings since where Ken stated we supported him unanimously, but failed to mention the conditions we added
- § Changes:
- · Zoning change SF6 to SF2
- · 5ft setback from street
- · Variance for rear setback – from 20 to 7
- § Colleen to draft letter to share; doesn’t think need to rescind our letter
- · Finance
- o NBD NSP submitted
- · Membership
- o Real Estate
- § Of Note : 9/5 Local Oakley LLC to BSS LLC (NorthPointe) for 2.75m
- §
- · Beautification
- o New flag on the Esplanade has been purchased and installed
- · Major Events
- o No report
- · Education
- o No report
Major Projects:
- o Community Engagement
- o No report
- o Master Plan Implementation
- o No report
- o OCC Newsletter
- o No report
- o Oakley Recreation Center
- o No report
- o Pedestrian Safety - Joe
- o Safety app gaining traction, outside area too
- § 19 Issues
- § 35 unique logins
- § 2 closed
- § 3 submitted to city for review
- · Updates to fleet feet
- · Flaggs
- · Crosswalk at Brotherton
- o Neyer related upgrades in discussion
- o Working with HP counterpart on upgrades around HP school and along Wasson
- o City looking for support to amend charter to allow hand held cameras and not require officers to issue tickets in person at the time.
- o Metro – vote yes on Issue 22
- o Oakley History - Joe
- o Oaktoberfest booth
- o Growing support/input on FB group
- o Next steps:
- § Resident meeting
- § Storage/online
- § Oakley Guide app?
- o Website - Kenny
- o Payment options changing in 2020 (April), have to decide to stay with our current payment system, or pay higher fees for vendor option
- o Social Media
- o No report
10/1 Agenda Requests – send requests to Colleen
Adjourn Meeting
Motion: Sean
Seconded: Seth
Yes: All
