Hello all – fellow contacts in our neighboring Area Commissions:
We are starting the process of getting in-place a tree-planting effort for our area of Columbus and I was wondering if any of your might be able to attend our meeting tomorrow night (9/23) at 6:30pm to be held at the Wagenbrenner 1500 W. Third Avenue Building, Lower Level to lend your experience to our efforts to launch our tree-planting “5XNW Arbor” effort for our area. As many of you have probably experienced when you were in our area for business, shopping or passing through – we could use trees along West Fifth Avenue, which for a while before our Area Commission was in-place turned into a little bit of a business-only, no landscaping zone.
Since the 5XNW Area Commission have been in-place over the last 3-4 years, and especially since we put in-place our Urban Commercial Overlay in the last year – we require developers to add landscaping to their zoning requests. This, tree planting group is an effort to go back and fix the inequities of the past – not only on W. Fifth Avenue but throughout our area.
If you have a few minutes to drop-by at the beginning of the meeting, it would be most appreciated – if you could lend your thoughts to our process. FYI, there is parking to the side of the building (located behind the Grandview Carryout across from the Grandview Café) if the front-lot is full. If you have a “Landscape Committee” – maybe that person could be the “delegate” for this meeting? We would like to hear about how you went about planning your beautification efforts in your Area Commissions through the City of Columbus’ program.
Sorry about the short-notice – if you have a few minutes, just wanted to provide the opportunity to let us learn from your experience.
These are the directions from MapQuest:
http://www.mapquest.com/maps?city=Columbus&state=OH&address=1500+W+3rd+Ave&zipcode=43212-2843&country=US&latitude=39.98515&longitude=-83.04564&geocode=ADDRESS
Thanks,
Becky Obester
Chairperson of the 5XNW Area Commission
614-516-8577
