Blair Hills Meeting

November 18, 2014 at 7:00pm 

Co-President Annie Wilson called the meeting to order at 7:00pm 

Reading of last meeting minutes by Antoinette
Minutes were approved and seconded as read

Old business

• Mary Anne Green moved to Arizona and sends her best to everyone 
• Co-President Kerri was out sick this meeting
• On December 4th the annual tree lighting ceremony will take place in downtown Culver City
• The Santa sleigh will be in our area on December 18
• Ellen Grief did not resign as treasurer and is now acting Treasurer 
• This month our Association has an ending balance of $6,175.48 with a complete end of year report to be submitted January, 2015
• The annual picnic has been moved back to the first Saturday in August

New business

• The floor was opened up to committee heads
• Beautification committee reported that the Blair hills sign on Lenawee needs to be cleaned up, they will follow up to make sure this is completed 
• Residents of Stoneview have a meeting scheduled November 19th with Mark Ridley Thomas at 5:00pm at the exposition office, 700 exposition park drive, this will be the last meeting scheduled this year
• There was concern that the meeting is exclusive to families on Stoneview instead of open to entire community
• Antoinette will forward meeting information to Jon
• There was an expressed need for paper newsletters
• The City council met on October 26th, it was recommended and agreed that it wasn't beneficial to postpone the vote
• Environmentalists at the meeting voiced their disagreement with the Blair Hills Association, the Association decided their goals were different\

· The measure to declare the path not a sensitive use, and thereby allow it to be moved away from Stoneview into the 400’ buffer zone, was passed by the Culver City Council

Shultz Project Presentation

• David Boyd, Project Manager presented updated plans for the Lenawee project 
• There were changes to the assisted living facility: the building will be smaller, 96 units, 45 parking spaces, larger landscape area with water feature, a deceleration lane located off of La Cienega and a one way exit through the new Lenawee cul de sac 
• These new entrance changes were recommended by Culver City 
• Barry Kurtz, Traffic engineer, reported on current and future traffic conditions on Lenawee and La Cienega 
• City standards require a 1,250 ft acceleration lane thus the assisted living facility would be unable to provide both deceleration and acceleration lanes
• Additional traffic impact was estimated to be 15 cars during late traffic and 6 cars during morning traffic- the volume of traffic is said to be minuscule
• Kurtz acknowledged they are adding a bit of traffic but the bigger issue is mitigating the traffic there now
• The project proposed to add an all way stop at the end of the cul de sac with raised markers and double yellow lines to deter outside traffic
• They are considering curb extensions
• There was a request that they check the standard height of speed bumps as the speed bumps on Lenawee are too low for deterring traffic
• There was a brief discussion of alternative traffic solutions including adding a stop light or a no right turn sign, this discussion was tabled 
• This project will not resolve the traffic issues; it looks to mitigate some of the traffic issues with the help of Gabe Garcia
• There was a suggestion of decreasing the number of beds to decrease traffic but financial operators are only interested in assisted living with close to 100 beds
• There was a concern with the proposed number of employees (22)
• There was an expressed need for a study of the number of caregivers for a 96 bed facility
• The proposed street and sidewalk work will take place during phase 1
• The project will financially provide for the sidewalks, gutters, fire hydrants and will contribute to Culver City as a whole by creating a "wow factor" off of La Cienega

Directory

• Sherry has pictures from the picnic and would like help identifying people in the neighborhood
• Jon will not be uploading individual photos but there is an option to upload your own
• Jon has directory system that he would like to go live online
• Jon will send Barbara the printed directory, Barbara and Victoria will make 200 paper copies to be distributed to the neighborhood

The meeting was adjourned at 8:35 pm

Minutes submitted by Secretary, Victoria Flame

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