Minutes of the Croissant Park Neighborhood Meeting

Meeting of the Croissant Park Civic Association General MembershipSeptember 28, 2010, 7:00 p.m. in the Community Center

Present: Steve Cook, John McNamara, Loren Colburn,

Karla Carlson, Randy Drummond, Rhonda Kramer

Absent: Pat Rathburn, Heather Cunnif, Joy Stafford

The meeting was called to order by Vice President, Steve Cook at 7:00 p.m. John lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance and Steve introduced our first guest, Broward county public works department division of highway and bridge maintenance division representative Mr. John O. Besley 954-974-4100 jbesley@broward.org. Mr. Besley presented drawings to

show the work that is in progress on SW 4th Avenue. The plans indicated where the new curbs and bike lanes would be and new striping that would take out one lane of traffic reducing the East side of 4th to two lanes. There will be a couple of trees removed near 12th Ct because they are in jeopardy of falling

due to root problems. A question and answer session followed his presentation.

Steve then introduced our 2nd guest, Anthony Fajardo from the Fort Lauderdale Planning & Zoning Dept. Mr Fajardo gave a power point presentation on the South Andrews Master Plan progress. This plan can be found on-line at http://info.ci.ftlaud.fl.us/planning_zoning/pdf/srac/draftsrac-sa.pdf Be for-warned that it is better understood with the presentation and ability to ask questions. For those of you who are not familiar with this plan, it started about seven years ago and includes a total revitalization of Andrews Avenue with the boundaries being Tarpon River to the north, SR84 to the south, Federal Hwy to the east and the FEC railroad to the west. The idea is to make the area a pedestrian friendly destination with a mix of business and residential uses. This will have a huge impact (hopefully good) on Croissant Park in the future and everyone should be watching how it progresses.

Topics that were covered included: parking, hotels, restaurants, 475 residential units, sidewalks, possible 'Wave' or passenger

trains (replacing the freight trains), proposed zoning changes, and more.

Our Vice-Mayor/Commissioner Romney Rogers was also on hand to comment and answer questions from the membership. It was a meeting that everyone should have attended for the wealth of information.

A slate of nominees for the 2011 Board of the Croissant Park Civic Association was presented and the preliminary nominees are:

President: Steve Cook

Vice President: ?

Secretary: Loren Colburn

Treasurer: Pat Rathburn

Directors: Joy Stafford, Heather Cunnif & Rhonda Kramer

We have several openings for the board and hope to have more nominees by the October meeting. If you have suggestions, send them in.

Rhonda and Karla met with Lisa from the Community Center to coordinate this year's Halloween Party. Last year's event was a huge success and depended largely on donations from the membership. If you would like to contribute candy or cash to help make this year another big hit for the kids, you can bring them to the next meeting on October 26th, or better yet, drop your donation to Rhonda Kramer at 712 SW 14 Street (954-764-7035). Thanks in advance for your support of this fun event for our neighborhood. We will also be cooking hot dogs and serving drinks if you would like to volunteer to help out. More information will follow in emails. If you are not on the Croissant Park email list, just send a request to be added to MyCroissantPark@gmail.com.

The meeting adjourned around 8:45 with peace and harmony prevailing.

Submitted by: Rhonda Kramer