Slatterly Park has been working with the City of Rochester Public Works Department on the alternate side parking and snow removal plan for our neighborhood over the past month and half.  In a recent meeting with Public Works, and our city council member Mark Bilderback our neighborhood board has agreed to suspend the alternate side parking rule for this year, in lieu of Public Works stepping up the enforcement of the already existing 12 hour parking rule, especially during snow events.  Check out this note from the Public Works Dept. (click twice on PDF link to open) Alternate Side Parking Update

Public Works has offered us the opportunity to review our current street grid and decide what we would like to see in the future from everything from stop sign locations, bus routes, safe walk to school routes, complete streets, and parking restrictions, since all signage must be changed by 2018 by federal standards.  The Imagine Slatterly process and its three whole neighborhood meetings, has gathered a large amount of this data already and is in our vision plan already.  That plan will be reviewed by the Slatterly Board and Imagine Leadership and be given to the Public Works Dept. for review. A general neighborhood meeting will be hosted late winter/spring to unveil any new changes to the vision plan in regard to public streets within the neighborhood for comment.

The Slatterly Park Neighborhood Association board after much consideration, and with the best interest of the neighborhood has endorsed a plan with the City of Rochester Public Works Dept. to try winter alternate side parking in our neighborhood for snow removal.  A similar agreement has been made with two other downtown neighborhoods Eastside & Kutzky Park neighborhoods. We have agreed to the one year trial period to see if this helps alleviate the congested streets, and the difficulties for the plows in the winter. 

Rochester is about the only city in the upper Midwest that does not have an alternate side parking or snow emergency management plan in place, which is pretty amazing.  The current plan calls for alternate side parking from 7:00am -7:00pm to allow for snow removal.  On odd days street parker’s must park on the odd numbered side and even days on the even side December 1 through April 1, a pretty simple concept.  The entire Slatterly Park neighborhood will be affected by the alternate side parking which is bound by  4^th Street on the North, 15^th Ave on the East, Hwy 14 on the South and Broadway on the West. The city plans to communicate with all neighborhoods through the following:

1. We will be sending out a postcard mailer to residences in the zones.
2. Website link will be developed to communicate alternate side parking on city website www.rochestermn.gov
3. Slatterly Park website will have information and a link to the city website www.slatterlypark.org

* On streets where no parking signs are already posted the signs overide the alternate  side parking, thus parking is allowed on the unmarked side 24 hours a day.

As a part of the education/public information process, the city will be giving out “warning” tickets from Dec 6^th to Jan 2nd to cars that would be parked illegally.  There will be no fine just information on the ticket.  Please let me know if you have any questions wflock@hga.com

Map of affected zone:

Great News: Slatterly Park was the recipient of the 2011 Fall Tree planting from the RNeighborWoods Tree grant that we applied for!   The 20 trees will be planted around Hawthorne School, and on 4th/5th Ave & 7th Streets SE.  We’ll meet in the Hawthorne Education Center parking lot at 9:00am.   Please bring shovels, pail for water, and a wagon if you have one!

Thanks to all who came out and helped, what a great crew!

Check out the link below for “Making it Better”, and click the thumbs up tab next to the Facebook logo to up our chances of winning! 

Slatterly has entered its tree planting initiative in the competition.

http://makingitbettermn.org/the-challenge/challenge-submissions/slatterly-park-neighborhood-revitalization/

 Be a part of something great!

Questions or Comments-Contact: Wayne Flock wflock@hga.com 

Connect with your neighborhood: send email to be added to neighborhood distribution list.

Thanks to all the volunteers who came out to paint the street!

check out more photos at:

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150341377043132.403093.59122718131&l=0aec6e0d4a

Our 4th Annual Saturdays at Slaterly Music & Movie in the Park is July 23! 

Check the website for Band & Movie listing!

7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Live Band featuring:  Back to Back with Diamond-Mac a tribute band to Neil Diamond & Steve Nicks

9:30 (dusk)-10:30pm Outdoor Movie :”Shrek Forever After”

No Carry in food or beverage, the event is put on free, with food available for purchase to support the event.

Click on picture for schedule:

A special thanks to our Sponsors:

We have purchased 30 more boulevard trees for the Slatterly Park neighborhood, with funds raised from Saturdays at Slatterly events Music & Movie in the Park & Bloom Day & Art on the Ave.  By supporting these events we are able to put the funds back into the neighborhood!  The new trees will be planted on the 600, 700 & 800 blocks of 8^th Ave SE, and 7^th & 8^th Streets SE that spoke off of 8^th Ave.  We’ll do the planting on Tuesday July 5^th from 6:30pm -8:00pm.  We’ll need approx. 15 volunteers to help out! 

Lowe’s gave us a phenomenal deal on the boulevard approved trees, and we are working with Jacob Ryg our  City Forester on the tree locations!

 I’d like a couple volunteers to help hand out fliers on these blocks this week, to notify neighbors on the blocks were planting so they know about watering the new trees, and a chance to come out an help!

 Please respond on your availability: wflock@hga.com

The Slatterly Park Community Garden is ready, and has 8×10 plots available for $30 each.  The Community garden is in partnership with the Rochester Area Foundations CROPS iniative to sustainable neighborhood gardens.  Find out more at www.rochestercrops.org where you will find applicaitons, and further information.  Thank you to all the volunteers who helped make the gardens possible!