Ballots have been mailed to property owners by the City, and are due by September 15, 2009. Ballots should be mailed to:

City of San Antonio
Office of Historic Preservation
Attn: Elizabeth Porterfield
1901 South Alamo St., 2nd Floor
San Antonio, TX 78204

For any questions or comments, please call Ms. Porterfield at 207-3327 or by email at elizabeth.porterfield@sanantonio.gov

See the River Road Proposed Design Standards (revised 9/1/09)

You may also visit the City of San Antonio’s Office of Historic Preservation

The February Board Meeting is scheduled for Thursday, Feb. 19 at 7:00 p.m.

The River Road Neighborhood Association’s annual membership meeting will be held Sunday, March 22nd, at 2 p.m. in Lion’s Field Clubhouse on Broadway, just south of Mulberry. Your board of directors, at its January 15 meeting, set that March date as required by the bylaws.

Directors also named a nominating committee to find candidates to replace the two outgoing board members who will have completed their three-year terms. Committee members are Mimi Quintanilla, Bill Sibley and Nell Fenner Grover (me).

Rotating off the board are Larry DeMartino and me. I told the board I would volunteer to continue on the communications committee as your email communicator. (Committee members do not have to be members of the board.)

PLEASE NOTE: Annual dues per household will be $10.00 instead of $5.00. That increase was approved by the membership at last year’s annual meeting, to be effective at this year’s annual meeting.

Nell Fenner Grover, communications chair.

River Road Neighborhood Association
Board Meeting Agenda
Lion’s Club Fieldhouse
November 20, 2008
7:00 PM

Board Members: Sally Boothe-Meredith, Lea Brogan, Larry Clark, Augie Cortez, Larry DeMartino, Nell Grover, Anne Larme (Secretary), Mimi Quintanilla (Vice-Chair), Richard Reed (Chair), Bill Sibley, Michael Sullivan
Treasurer: Ed Piner

1. Call to order

2. Approval of Minutes

3. Treasurer’s Report

4. Committee Reports

• Traffic/Neighborhood Plan: South Mulberry Sidewalk (L. Clark)
• Drainage (L. DeMartino)
• Christmas Party: (L. Brogan)
• Communications (S. Boothe-Meredith, M. Sullivan)
• Neighborhood History Committee (B. Sibley)

5. Old Business

• Community Garden and Acequia Project (Larry Clark, B Sibley

6. New business

• TIRZ (presentation)

7. Adjournment

Portraits From River Road

The selection committee at Green Spaces Alliance particularly like the fact that we are working together with our Parks Department to utilize the park land at the corner of Huisache and Allison, a small triangle of land across the street from the remainder of the park (just south of where the stables used to be). This site borders on the Spanish colonial Upper Labour Acequia, which ran through the park and on down what is now Dewberry, and was used for irrigation of crops.

The Parks Department has helped us already, by removing some of the asphalt and gravel that had been left on the site for years. We will have a ‘Memorandum of Understanding’ with Parks, allowing us to develop our garden there. We plan to build a fenced area for our vegetables, fruits and a native plants nursery. Nursery plants will be available for transplanting to homes throughout the neighborhood.

We’ll have more information on the Garden, soon. Please let us know if you are interested in growing with us by emailing riverroadgarden@gmail.com. Save the date, Saturday morning September 13th, for an organizational meeting.

Roy Schweers -on behalf of River Road Community Garden (RRCG)

If you would like to see where your home stands in relation to the new proposed flood zone you may find out here:

SAN ANTONIO RIVER AUTHORITY GIS MAPPING SITE

After clicking “I Agree” and allowing the map viewer to load, you may enter your address at the bottom and click “Locate.”

Larry Clark reports that a follow-up article is coming soon.

Note: Some have expressed concerns about the excess mail they are likely to receive if they join. This need not be the case: you may elect to receive a single email digest, once per day, and then only if there is activity that day. The digest would contain all of the traffic for that day, so even if there are 100 messages, you would still receive only one. Contact me directly if you would like me to enable this option for you.

UPDATE: Another benefit of having Google handle this mailing list is the fact that they will scan and clean any viruses or other potentially malicious programs from the mail before it ever reaches your mailbox.

This service is provided free by Google and is not affiliated with the RRNA.

Best Regards,

Michael Sullivan (sullivan.m@gmail.com)