This is a letter from the several thousand of us who live close to Skinker Boulevard.
Tag: Local Government
The City Forestry Division has completed the planting of hardy varieties of trees along Des Peres and DeBaliviere.
On Thursday, May 13, a special school election will be held submitting to voters a 37-cent tax increase for the St. Louis public school system.
Our columnist Bob Brown, called early in April and said he'd heard something about the Job Corps Center site on Delmar and wanted to do a column on it.
The greatest improvement for our neighborhood would be for us to have the use of Forest Park for all of our families.
On Friday, March 19, the Board of Aldermen passed the 353 incentive bill which, in part, calls for redevelopment of the DeBaliviere-Delmar-DeGiverville triangle area.
A recent evaluation of truck traffic on Skinker Boulevard, undertaken by the city Traffic division at the request of Women for City Living, points out the need for traffic control on Skinker if the residential character of the neighborhood is to be preserved.
An area - wide clean - up is scheduled in May if the SDCC has enough volunteers to launch the campaign.
The annual Washington Heights alley clean up is scheduled to be held on May 1st.
Mr. Marlen Heines of the St. Louis Beautification Commission spoke recently to a group of Washington Heights Neighbors at their general meeting on March 9.
Just ahead of us, on April 6, is the important municipal election, in which St. Louis voters will be electing a President of the Board of Aldermen, aldermen from all even-numbered wards, four members of the Board of Education, and one member of the Board of Trustees for the Junior College.
A clean-up of the Norfolk and Western Railroad right-of-way, which cuts diagonally through much of the Skinker-DeBaliviere area, is scheduled for April 12 or 19.
