CAPE STORY BY THE SEA
MONTHLY CIVIC ASSOCIATION MEETING
VIRGINIA BEACH RESORT HOTEL
Monday March 9, 2009 at 7:30pm

–         Adding Stop Signs on the cross streets for vehicular traffic.
–         Changing the yellow diamond pedestrian signs to red/white yield triangle signs.
–        Use of median changes with optical and/or median obstruction/islands on the cross streets.  Similar to a small traffic circle.  Currently being used in the Old Beach neighborhoods.
–         Adding serpentine fencing and landscaping on the bike path to make pedestrians slow down before entering the cross streets.
–       Adding speed bumps on each side of the bike path to slow down vehicular traffic on the cross streets.
–        Change the speed limits on all Cape Story streets from 25 MPH to 15 MPH.
–        Clear vegetation in City right of way (ROW) that impact safe line of sight from pedestrian and vehicle perspective.
–       Cul-de-sac some of the long streets at the bike path and only allow one or two main entrances into the neighborhood.
–    Reducing the speed limit of Shore Drive from 45 MPH to 35 MPH.  This would slow down cars coming off SD that tend to continue the same SD speed through the neighborhood.

– MRC (Virginia Marine Resources Commission) -New Pound Net Applications  – TWO Pound net permit applications posted one  by Mr. Gregory and one by Mr. Sanford  were posted February 24, 2009.  The nets are located west of the Lynnhaven Inlet in the Ocean Park/Baylake Pines area.  The last day to comment on these applications will be Tuesday March 24, 2009, the same day that the VMRC Board will hear this application.  Send your comments to Jack Travelstead, VMRC at Jack.Travelstead@mrc.virginia.gov

VII.        New Business
– Elections  for 2009 CSBTS -Nominating committee-  Nominations are as follows: President – Empsy Munden                                                                                                                              1st Vice President – Tracy Stover                                                                                     2nd Vice President – Diana Albis                                                                                       Secretary – Todd Solomon                                                                                               Treasurer – David Albis               Nominations from the Floor Called                              Elections by members present
– VBCCO – Banquet March 14th – table for CSBTS – nomination for ACTION AWARD for Holiday Events in CSBTS- Annual Banquet VBCCO Saturday March 14th at the Wyndam Hotel
–SDCC – March 30, 2009 7:30PM- Del. Joe Bouchard will be discussing local environmental issues and holding a Q&A session.                                       Council members Louis Jones and Jim Wood attended February 23rd meeting Lesner Bridge Replacement and Indigo Dunes discussed     The Lesner Bridge project was not include on the preliminary “stimulus package” money for Va Beach, but tennis courts were.  SDCC meetings are held at  Ocean Park Fire & Rescue Station.  Check http://www.sdcc.info for current information – CSBTS residents may attend as guests  
– 2009 Civic Engagement Summit – Saturday April 4, 2009 at 8:30am at the Simulation Center in Suffolk.  Sponsored by Hampton Roads Center for Civic Engagement.  Free and open to public.  http://www.hrcce.org to register.
 
VIII. Adjourn

CAPE STORY BY THE SEA

MONTHLY CIVIC ASSOCIATION MEETING

VIRGINIA BEACH RESORT HOTEL

January 12, 2009 at 7:30pm

I.    Call to Order

II.  Minutes – December Meeting

III. Treasurers Report

Special Program:

CSBTS January 12 meeting– City officials & bike trail safety discussion

City Officials Mike Shahsiah, Bob Gey and Councilman Jim Wood

The Cape Story Civic Association is requesting that the City of Virginia Beach consider changing the stop signs at the bike path so that vehicular traffic be required to stop instead of the regular bike path pedestrians. This request was prompted by the recent accident at the bike path and Wake Forest Street where a young boy was struck by a truck. This is the third known incident of this type within the past two years. Many members of the Civic Association noted that a vast majority of drivers today either completely stop or “roll through” the intersections, while others totally ignore the caution signs and continue to accelerate.

Please mark your calendar for the January 12 CSBTS Civic Association meeting at 7:30 PM in the Virginia Beach Resort Hotel and Conference Center. There will be a bulletin board in the hotel lobby indicating the assigned room for the meeting.  Our City Council representative, Mr. James Wood, will attend this meeting and has graciously made arrangements for the appropriate city officials to also attend. Please plan on attending this meeting and hopefully a reasonable agreement can be reached that will avoid a tragic accident.

The City as well of the residents of CSBTS have their own views as to how to best approach this problem, i.e., speed bumps, stop signs, reduced speed limit, etc.  Anyone who has any thoughts, suggestions or that may be affected by any proposed changes should plan on attending.  I recently spoke with a long time resident who resides at the intersection of the bike path and one of the cross streets.  He indicated that he personally could remember about 12-15 children being struck at his intersection.

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Welcome to Ft. Story LTC Jansen and Little Creek Capt. Crow

Commanders

IV. Committee Reports

V. Old Business

VI. New Business

VII. Adjourn

We need as many folks to turn out for this meeting as possible.  Won’t you PLEASE attend, and ask a neighbor to come along too:

CAPE STORY BY THE SEA MONTHLY MEETING MONDAY

  JANUARY 12, 2009 AT 7:30 PM

AT THE VIRGINIA BEACH RESORT HOTEL, 2nd Floor

     BIKE TRAIL SAFETY DISCUSSION WITH CITY OFFICIALS