Committees and Activities, Barron Park (Neighborhood) Association

Index

Immediate Independent Issues

Advice on BPA Activities and Advice for BP Residents

• Letters Sent (partial)

Committees

• Beautification: Chair: vacant
  includes info on street trees and web pages on gardening
• Community-Business Relations: Chair: Markus Fromherz
• Community Safety: Merged into the Neighborhood Safety Committee
• Creeks: Chair: Christian Kalar
• Emergency/Earthquake Preparedness: Merged into the Neighborhood Safety and Preparedness Committee
• Fetes/Festivals/Events Chair: vacant
• Graffiti Hotline: Contact: Bob Moss
• History: Chair: Doug Graham
• Membership: Chair: John St. Clair
• Natural Habitat Restoration/Preservation: Chair: vacant
• Neighborhood Safety and Preparedness: Chair: Lydia Kou
• Neighborhood Watch: Merged into the Neighborhood Safety and Preparedness Committee
• Newsletters: Editor/Publisher: Nancy Hamilton
• Noise: Topic Area, not a committee
• Parks: Chair: vacant
• Schools Liaison: Chair: Christian Kalar
  • Gunn HS Athletic Field Realignment
• Seniors: Chair: vacant
  • Senior lunch (bi-monthly): Coordinator: Bob Frost
• Stanford Research Park Liaison (Noise, Toxic Releases, ...)
• Street Construction (part of Traffic Committee)
• ToxSafe (Toxic Safety) and Environmental Protection: Chair: vacant (formerly Inge Harding-Barlow)
• Traffic: Chair: John King
• Welcoming/Greeting: Chair: Gwen Luce
• Zoning and Land Use: Chair: Lynnie Melena

Other Activities and Areas of Interest

• Development (ZALU Committee)
• Housing (ZALU Committee)
• Historic Preservation Issues (ZALU Committee)
• Neighborhood Compatibility/Integrity Issues (ZALU Committee)
• Local Wildlife (Urban Wildlife)

Other Resources

• Letters Sent
• Surveys (separate page)

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Community-Business Relations

Fetes/Festivals/Events

• May Fete (primary annual neighborhood event)
• Holiday Parade/Party/Caroling Don Anderson
• Welcoming Party Gwen Luce : occurs in late August or early September: party to encourage new residents to meet other residents (and vice versa)
• Other events that are not necessarily repeated annually:
• Event Scrapbook

Graffiti Hotline

call the City of Palo Alto's Graffiti Hotline at (650) 496-5904

and/or

send e-mail to Bob Moss

Membership

• How to Join

Neighborhood Safety and Preparedness

Created through the merger of the Community Safety Committee, the Neighborhood Watch Committee, and Emergency Preparedness Committee.

• Emergency Contact Numbers
• Crime Reports:
  • CrimeReports.com, centered on Barron Park (using 700 Barron Avenue)
  • Description of the abbreviations and other codes used in CrimeReports display (from the Palo Alto Police web site)
• Emergency Preparedness activities and information
• Heads Up, A Community Awareness Newsletter from the Palo Alto Police Department (roughly quarterly)
• Solicitors at the Door (AKA Strangers) from the Palo Alto Police Department

Schools Liaison

• Safe Routes to Schools program (City and School District):
  • Local Info from the Palo Alto PTA
  • Background material (circa 9/99): Pedestrian Access to Barron Park Elementary School: assessment of problems facing students attempting to walk to the school from areas near El Camino, especially students coming from the Ventura neighborhood.
    This was given as a briefing to the Joint City/School District Traffic Safety Committee and as a document to the principal of the new school.

• Gunn HS
• Terman Middle School
• Jane Lathrop Stanford (JLS) Middle School (enrollment transitioning to Terman)
• Barron Park Elementary School
• Juana Briones Elementary School
• Hoover Elementary School
• Palo Alto Unified School District (PAUSD): for info on district and web pages of various schools

• Barron Park Preschool

Seniors

• ElderLawAnswers.com Article on Trusts has been recommended by multiple people.
• Help for Seniors
  Reverse Mortgages
• SeniorClix.com - collection of links, resources, ...

ToxSafe (Toxic Safety) and Environmental Protection

• Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) Program of the US Environmental Protection Agency
• Spic and Spam: advice on less toxic chemicals for cleaning. From the Palo Alto Weekly.
• CPI Hazard Watch (CPI is ocated in the Stanford Research Park and backs up to Chimalus)

Welcoming/Greeting

• Greeting packets are now available to any Barron Park resident who would like to welcome a new neighbor. The newcomer could be next door or down the street, an owner or renter. Each packet contains a collection of informative materials, including sample BPA Newsletters, a brief history of Barron Park, booklets on Neighborhood Watch, emergency preparedness pamphlets, utility options, area and bike lane maps, etc. Included with each packet is the latest version of Info Palo Alto, the Weekly's annual guide to everything! It's very easy to welcome a new resident with a greeting packet in hand It takes only a few minutes and is a thoughtful way to introduce yourself and to carry on the great Barron Park tradition of community and connection.
• Block Parties: Require a permit which should be completed at least 10 days before the event.
  Block parties are free during certain months - pattern has been July and September, but double-check. For more information and a downloadable form, see the City's page on Police Code Enforcement.

Other descriptions/overviews of the Barron Park neighborhood:

• Barron Park from the 2000-11-17 issue of the Palo Alto Weekly