The Forest Hills Neighborhood Association

In an email message to members of the Forest Hills Neighborhood Association Board of Directors, President Lee Ruef directed a new ad hoc committee to begin creating the plan for Community Character Protection.

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Lee Ruef [mailto:lruef@iiabsc.com]
Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2007 1:06 PM
To: Winky Zeberlein; Carol Dubose; David Cuda; George Bailey; John Cloyd; Lanie Kitchens; Reed Swearingen; Tom Legare; Jennifer Lott ; Sam Clarke; Barbara Rackes; PAm Kirkland; Beth Wilson
Subject: Community Character Protection

Good afternoon,
 
Frist, let me thank all of you for serving on the FHNA Board.   It has been a rewarding experience for me to get to know all of you and I appreciate your work.  Beth Wilson will be a great president and I look forward to working with her.  We have already been collaborating on how to proceed on matters that will overlap.
 
The most important of those is how do we in Forest Hills proceed to determine whether we want to adopt the city's interim measures that will impose a new overlay of requirements to demolish buildings, the sizing of new structures and setbacks.  These interim measures come under the heading of Community Character Protection.  They are called interim measures because they can be adopted by a neighborhood by a simple vote that then has to be approved by the city's Design/Development Review Commission and City Council. Then the neighborhood has two years to decided whether it wants to impose a more permenant overlay of requirements using a local historic designation.  Beth and I have agreed to appoint an Ad Hoc Committee of board members to develop a plan for considering the interim measures.
 
That committee is composed of Barbara Rackes, Sam Carke, John Cloyd, Reed Swearingen, Beth and me.We will meet soon to layout a procedure plan for presentation to the board.
 
I hope all of you have great holidays and I hope to see all of you during that time.