Samish Neighborhood Association monthly meeting held in the Last Week

The Samish Neighborhood Association’s board meeting was held at 7:00 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 13 at the Community Baptist Church, 810 Samish Way. Several of the board members gathered and discussed mainly two topics: neighborhood safety and rezoning of the Church of Christ on Samish Way.

The board members firstly discussed that the Samish neighborhood need a strong, good communication with police, taking seriously the neighborhood’s safety problems, related to burglary, drug and homeless camps. As an option to solve the problem, a board member proposed to start a community garden somewhere in the neighborhood. The members agreed that they would talk more in detail about it at the next meeting on January.

The second topic was the rezoning of the Church of Christ (Area 4 rezoning) (See also here). The members consented that they would keep their “integrity” of the original rezoning – they, as the Samish neighborhood, would refuse the rezoning in order to protect the “nonretail definition,” which represents the current character of the area and the neighborhood. Also, the neighborhood should guarantee its original character for those who have and buy houses in and near the area, valuing the neighborhood’s environment, said the board members.

The next meeting is held on Thursday, Jan. 8, 2015. The time and the place will be the same as the previous meetings, according to the Samish Neighborhood Association’s website.