College Park News and Notices

Hi Neighbors, A few things to report on.
Tomorrow night, the Planning and Zoning Board will hear a request from the owners of the liquor/convenience store on Dixie Highway between Columbia and Cornell for an upgrade to their liquor license and a proximity variance. The entire back-up material for the item before the P&Z can be found on the City's website.

Notices were mailed to residents within 400 ft. of the property, but our Neighborhood Association, along with many others have repeatedly asked that items such as this come before the Neighborhood Association BEFORE they come before the Planning and Zoning and Board in order to give everyone in the neighborhood the opportunity to learn more, ask questions and provide input. We have never asked for the right of approval, simply for the courtesy of allowing neighbors to be better informed prior to decisions being made.

On behalf of the Board of Directors and College Park Neighbors, I will again tomorrow night ask that our Association be extended this courtesy as we are holding our next meeting on Monday, June 25th, less than three weeks from now and ask the Board to postpone their deliberation and decision on this item until their next meeting following ours.

The P&Z Board is under no obligation to grant this courtesy, and the decision may well be made tomorrow night. So, if you have questions, or something to say about this matter, you might wish to come to the P&Z meeting, tomorrow, Wednesday, June 6th at 6 pm at City Hall.

Monday, June 25th at 6:30 is the next College Park NA meeting. As always we will meet at the First Congregational Church, 1415 N. K. Street. Everyone is welcome. Items of importance that will be discussed at this meeting include the new precinct numbers and polling places the Supervisor of Elections has designated for College Park. Registered voters should be receiving new voter registration cards in the mail shortly. The information on the Supervisor's website, at the moment is somewhat incorrect. Hopefully, we will have someone from the Supervisor's office on hand at the meeting to talk about these changes.

Also, the Fourth of July Raft Race is coming up soon. We'll be building the raft this coming Monday, the 18th at our home at 327 Columbia Drive at 6pm. The theme for all the rafts this year is Broadway Musicals. So far, we haven't settled on one theme for CP, so bring your ideas with you. On Monday the 18th, we'll build the basic raft and at the meeting on the following Monday the 25th, we'll finalize the theme, decor, costumes and rafters! Let's bring the "Grunge Cup" trophy home to College Park this year!