Council Member Cohen and the Department of Public Works & Engineering invite you to an open house and presentation about the coming reconstruction of Greenbriar Street. PUBLIC MEETING: GREENBRIAR RECONSTRUCTION between Rice & W. Holcombe Boulevards Thursday, May 7, 2015 6PM – 7:30PM Roberts Elementary School 6000 Greenbriar Street | 77030 (MAP) Project improvements will include new pavement, new underground utilities, wider sidewalks, and improved intersections for safer pedestrian crossing. For more details, please visit: www.RebuildHouston.org City Hall Annex, 1st Floor, District C – 900 Bagby Street – Houston, TX 77002 Telephone: (832) 393-3004 – Email: DistrictC@houstontx.gov

The RPCA Spring Picnic and Membership Drive is Tomorrow at 6:00 on Lexington at Chew Park. Come meet your neighbors, enjoy the food, and have a chance to win prizes.

Invitation to a Community Meeting on a TIRZ in Montrose

When: Saturday, March 14, 2015, 9:30 – 11:00 am

Where: St. Stephens Episcopal Church, Pecore Hall, 1805 West Alabama at Woodhead (entrance and parking on Sul Ross)

The Neartown Association invites all Neartown/Montrose residents and Association members to a community meeting this Saturday, March 14th. The purpose of this meeting is to update the community on recent meetings and discussions concerning the possibilities for a Tax Increment Reinvestment Zone (TIRZ) in Montrose. As a follow-up to the Town Hall meeting in December, the city is in the process of holding meetings on this topic with Montrose civic leaders and other stakeholder groups. At the community meeting this Saturday, we will share the latest information that we have received on the options for Montrose participation in a TIRZ, discuss pros and cons, and hear your questions and concerns.

We look forward to seeing you at this important community meeting.

Greg S. LeGrande

Neartown President

Twenty-two or 23 years ago, I would have never lived here. It was bad. You were seeing carjackings, you were seeing a lot of assaults, a lot of violent crime.

We had pockets of gang activity. We had some on Stanford and we had ones off of Welch. There was Woodhead, Mandell, and Colquitt. The apartments in the 1700 block of Portsmouth are essentially where criminals lived. I pretty much stayed there in 1996 and 1997. There were so many places they could run – they’d bring cars in, strip them in the back alleys.

Think about what’s changed in Montrose. Property value has gone up, there are a lot of different people living here now. These new homes came in, and they tore everything down so the gang members had to move somewhere else. Once that project went down everything changed.

http://montrosedistrict.org/law-and-order-montrose-why-the-mean-streets-of-the-city-arent-so-mean-anymore/

Richwood Place will have a recycling pickup this Monday, March 2.

The City has changed our schedule from the B week to the A week, so this time we have service two weeks in a row. Then we go back to recycle pickup every second week with the next service on March 16.

1Q2015 RPCA GENERAL MEETING MINUTES

Yearly membership dues for the Richwood Place Civic Association are $50. Dues can be paid with PayPal on this website or you can pay at the General Meeting on Tuesday February 3rd.

There will be an RPCA General Meeting Tuesday February 3rd at 7:00 PM at Zoe’s Kitchen. We need to fill the vacant Board position of Vice President at this meeting so anyone interested in this position please attend.