City submits HUD grant for W. 6th/7th Aves.
$2 million grant could have major impacts on JWN residents and businesses
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Jefferson Westside Neighbors
In September 2011, the City Planning and Development Department (PDD) applied for a
$2 million grant from HUD to create plans for, and acquire property along, W. 6th and 7th
Aves, including a long stretch of the north side of the JWN neighborhood.
In preparing the grant application, PDD staff failed to let JWN representatives know about
the grant application.
Read HUD grant documents.
The project description submitted by PDD seemed to relegate JWN, Whiteaker
Community Council and other affected neighborhood organizations to minor roles among
what the project description calls "Key Participants."
Of the five major activities proposed for the project, "neighborhood associations" were
identified among the "Key Participants" in only one, and that was merely an initial
information-gathering activity. The major activities for "Business Retention and
Development," "Affordable Housing Retention and Development," "Transportation Access
and Infrastructure Enhancement" and "Compact Development Promotion" list fifteen
different organizations as "Key Participants" but make no mention whatsoever of
neighborhood involvement.
The JWN Executive Board raised these concerns with the Acting Director of PDD in
October; and on November 3, the City sent the JWN Executive Board a letter stating: "I want
to assure you that the City intends to include neighborhood associations as "key
participants" in all six grant activities ... to the extent we draw a line on a map, the JWN will
be a key participant in boundary decisions that abut or intersect the JWN." Read letter
from City to JWN.
Stay tuned to follow this project if the grant is approved.
$2 million grant from HUD to create plans for, and acquire property along, W. 6th and 7th
Aves, including a long stretch of the north side of the JWN neighborhood.
In preparing the grant application, PDD staff failed to let JWN representatives know about
the grant application.
Read HUD grant documents.
The project description submitted by PDD seemed to relegate JWN, Whiteaker
Community Council and other affected neighborhood organizations to minor roles among
what the project description calls "Key Participants."
Of the five major activities proposed for the project, "neighborhood associations" were
identified among the "Key Participants" in only one, and that was merely an initial
information-gathering activity. The major activities for "Business Retention and
Development," "Affordable Housing Retention and Development," "Transportation Access
and Infrastructure Enhancement" and "Compact Development Promotion" list fifteen
different organizations as "Key Participants" but make no mention whatsoever of
neighborhood involvement.
The JWN Executive Board raised these concerns with the Acting Director of PDD in
October; and on November 3, the City sent the JWN Executive Board a letter stating: "I want
to assure you that the City intends to include neighborhood associations as "key
participants" in all six grant activities ... to the extent we draw a line on a map, the JWN will
be a key participant in boundary decisions that abut or intersect the JWN." Read letter
from City to JWN.
Stay tuned to follow this project if the grant is approved.
UPDATE! JWN Executive Board secures commitment from City to involve JWN as key
stakeholder! Read letter from City to JWN.
stakeholder! Read letter from City to JWN.
UPDATE! City does not receive HUD grant.