Oregon Hill Neighborhood Association Meets Tuesday

From email announcement:

Next Oregon Hill Neighborhood Association meeting: Tuesday, August 27 at 7pm via zoom. Agenda is attached and pasted below.

OH Events:
Next Pleasants Park clean up day: Sept 21
Fourth Annual OH Halloween Block Party: Oct 19

Other News:

JOIN a City of Richmond board, committee, or commission, and represent Oregon Hill. There are multiple openings, including the Civilian Review Boarrd (police oversight), Ethics Reform Commission, Social Services Committee, Sister Cities Commission, City Planning Commission, Participatory Budget Steering Commission, and Community Transportation Commission. Some commissions have slots for particular populations, so read the requirements before applying.
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Monthly Meeting Agenda
Tuesday 27 August 2024 – 7:00PM
This meeting will be held by Zoom, at the link below.

Join Zoom Meeting (Editor’s note: Zoom link has been redacted. If you wish to attend, please request from ohnarva@gmail.com)

Welcome:
Community Updates:
1. Lt. Bill Brereton, City of Richmond Police Section Lt, 4th Precinct
2. Officer Cain Green, Police Liaison, VCU (greenc4@vcu.edu)
3. Ms. Verenda Cobbs, VCU
4. Ms. Stephanie Lynch, 5th District Councilperson
5. Ms. Colette McEachin, Richmond Commonwealth’s Attorney

Candidates:
Harrison Roday; Stephanie Rizzi
Announcements:
1. Fall Festival Block Party

Updates and Continued Business
1. The Friends of Oregon Hill Parks
b. Pleasants Park cleanup: weeding, mulching, cleaning sidewalks: Sat Sept 21

2. New Business
1. Discussion: Form an Ad Hoc Committee to review bylaws?
2. Discussion: Should we ask for a speed camera on Belvidere at Holly (within 1,000’ of Open High, where there was a pedestrian fatality in 2021) under new definition of “high-risk intersection segment”? Va Code § 46.2-882.1: “Use of photo speed monitoring devices in highway work zones, school crossing zones, and high-risk intersection segments; civil penalty.
A. For the purposes of this section: “High-risk intersection segment” means any highway or portion thereof located not more than 1,000 feet from the limits of the property of a school that is part of or adjacent to an intersection containing a marked crosswalk that is identified in the manner provided in this section as one in which a traffic fatality has occurred since January 1, 2014.”

Valerie L’Herrou, President
Bryan Clark Green, Co-Vice President
Harrison Moenich, Co-Vice-President
Jennifer Hancock, Co-Vice-President
Mike Matthews, Secretary
John Bolecek, Treasurer

Trash/Recycling Pickup Tomorrow Morning

Tomorrow is a “Red Wednesday”, which means trash and recycling pickup.

Please go over what can be recycled.

NOTE: CVWMA (Central Virginia Waste Management Authority) has announced that all curbside recycling must now be INSIDE the CVWMA containers with lid closed. Items beside the container or on top of it will not be collected. In fact, incorrect setouts may not be collected at all. This is new as of July 1 for all our curbside recyclers, with the exception of townhomes/condos still using small bins. (And yes, this also applies to flattened cardboard boxes.)

Ideally, rolling recycling containers are stored and deployed in the back alleys along with trash cans. Please make sure you pick up containers after pickup tomorrow night.

If it seems like pickup did not happen, use this online form:
https://cvwma.com/programs/residential-recycling/recycling-service-request-form/

In order to take your recycling to the next level, read this: 10 ways to improve your recycling.

In recycling news, Does Virginia recycling actually get recycled?

And in other news, Goodwill positions itself as a growing player in the recycling industry.

Richmond300 ‘Code Refresh’ Meetings This Week

Again, from the start of Richmond300, the neighborhood has been concerned because code usually reflects land us decisions.

Before approving the Richmond 300 master plan, the Richmond City Council was assured by the Stoney administration that their voice in amending the master plan would be respected.

The question remains…Is this setting up the neighborhood for success (to use previous OHNA Preisdent Todd Woodson’s wording) or failure?

Trash/Recycling Pickup Tomorrow Morning

Tomorrow is a “Red Wednesday”, which means trash and recycling pickup.

Please go over what can be recycled.

NOTE: CVWMA (Central Virginia Waste Management Authority) has announced that all curbside recycling must now be INSIDE the CVWMA containers with lid closed. Items beside the container or on top of it will not be collected. In fact, incorrect setouts may not be collected at all. This is new as of July 1 for all our curbside recyclers, with the exception of townhomes/condos still using small bins. (And yes, this also applies to flattened cardboard boxes.)

Ideally, rolling recycling containers are stored and deployed in the back alleys along with trash cans. Please make sure you pick up containers after pickup tomorrow night.

If it seems like pickup did not happen, use this online form:
https://cvwma.com/programs/residential-recycling/recycling-service-request-form/

In order to take your recycling to the next level, read this: 10 ways to improve your recycling.

In recycling news, what is Belington, West Virginia’s newest claim to fame?It’s now the new home for Recycle Balls.

The company recycles three million tennis balls each year, and given that a tennis ball takes 400 years to decompose in a landfill, it might be as the company’s tagline says: “Yellow is the new green.”

Large Tree Down In Hollywood Cemetery

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Laurel Street neighbor Charles Pool reports:
Hollywood lost one of its oldest trees this week. I counted around 225 growth rings. It was next to the original Harvie tombs, and it certainly would have been growing when Jaquelin Harvie was buried in 1856.