Curry transition team making neighborhoods a priority

[thelakelander]

By David Chapman, Staff Writer

On the campaign trail, Mayor-elect Lenny Curry consistently talked about "celebrating our neighborhoods."
To best accomplish that, Ed Burr posed a simple question to members of his Infrastructure Transition Committee.

"Should there be a Neighborhoods Department recreated?" Burr asked the group that began its work Wednesday.

The city's Neighborhoods Department was deconstructed during Mayor Alvin Brown's reorganization of city government. Its responsibilities were spread across other departments.

Burr wasn't looking for an immediate answer. It was more of a threshold question, but one that likely will be addressed early in the group's work.

Burr later said there will be a reorganization, although not massive.

However, Kerri Stewart said earlier she can see a substantial reorganization on the way. Stewart said she was speaking as an individual and not for the Operations, Human Resources and Productivity Transition Committee she heads.

The group will be looking at the way the city government is structured. The committee will look at whether activities throughout are best performed by the city — or perhaps might be better shifted to the nonprofit or private sector.

It won't be making recommendations on specific employees.

Full article: http://www.jaxdailyrecord.com/showstory.php?Story_id=545616

[tufsu1]

^ A simple way to celebrate neighborhoods is to erect signs at key entry points to each.  Tampa does a great job with this.

[Wacca Pilatka]

^ A simple way to celebrate neighborhoods is to erect signs at key entry points to each.  Tampa does a great job with this.

Agreed.  So does Norfolk.

[Tacachale]

Yeah, I've always liked that idea.  Definitely creates a sense of place and community at very little cost. I'd hate to be the guy in charge of deciding where to put the signs separating Riverside and Avondale, though. Folks seem to consider that a subject for fightin' over.

[Non-RedNeck Westsider]

Yeah, I've always liked that idea.  Definitely creates a sense of place and community at very little cost. I'd hate to be the guy in charge of deciding where to put the signs separating Riverside and Avondale, though. Folks seem to consider that a subject for fightin' over.

Hahahaha... I was thinking the same thing as I read down the thread.  +1,000 (or the minimum # of signs required for R/A.. whichever is less)

[David]

I lived off Downing west of King for a while and wasn't sure what to claim. The zip is 05 so i figured it's more Avondale, but most called it Riverside.

"Did you call me a Riversider? thems fightin' words!"

[CityLife]

The signs could always just say Riverside/Avondale Historic District and avoid the boundary conflict. Aren't there already R/A Historic District signs anyways? The historic district is pretty clearly defined.

http://www.coj.net/departments/planning-and-development/docs/community-planning-division/default/riverside-avdale-district-map.aspx

[Live_Oak]

More prominent signs would be cool.

There are already brick column/signs that say you are entering the R/A historic district.  Off the top of my head I know there is one going south on Edgewood from Murray Hill, east on Park when you get off 17 and one when you go south on McDuff.

[PeeJayEss]

I lived off Downing west of King for a while and wasn't sure what to claim. The zip is 05 so i figured it's more Avondale, but most called it Riverside.

"Did you call me a Riversider? thems fightin' words!"

Zip code, shmip code! Downing is absolutely Riverside. McDuff is the first possible boundary for Avondale. Even then, the closer you are to Roosevelt, the more Riverside it is. I guess King or thereabouts is the zip code boundary, but I don't think anyone would say European Street (or Kickbacks) is in Avondale.

Of course, this is all semantics.

Also, the information conveyed in the article really does not convey what they title says.