NCDOT Litter Sweep Fall 2016 - Statewide Roadside Litter Cleanup

NCDOT Litter Sweep - Biannual Statewide Roadside Litter Cleanup

The Fall 2016 NCDOT Litter Sweep is September 17 - October 1st.

A good portion of the North Main Neighborhood in Salisbury NC runs along the main corridor of Hwy 29. This is a wonderful opportunity for community involvement and participation in neighborhood beautification!

Litter Sweep is the North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) statewide roadside litter removal initiative.

Volunteers are requested to locally participate in the Governor proclaimed "Litter Sweep" to help beautify their communities by removing litter from North Carolina's roadways.

Volunteers are provided cleanup supplies such as orange trash bags, gloves, and orange safety vests from their respective local NCDOT county maintenance office.

A phone listing of local NCDOT maintenance offices can be found in the "Forms" link below as can Litter Sweep safety and promotional materials.

Litter Sweep is traditionally scheduled for the last two weeks of April and September.
The coming Fall Litter Sweep is scheduled for September 17 - October 1st.

Important Litter Sweep Links:

Forms

Litter Sweep Volunteer Cleanup Procedures

AAH Safety Video

Meth Lab Waste Recognition Video by the Colorado DOT (7.53 minutes).

For more information, please call the Litter Sweep Hotline (800-331-5864).

Litter Sweep and NC Department of Public Safety and the "Litter Free NC" campaign.

In addition to volunteers, the NCDOT maintenance crews devote one week of their time during Litter Sweep to pick up litter and collect orange bags from the roadsides once volunteers have completed their cleanups.

If you are interested in sponsoring litter removal along North Carolina Interstate highways, please visit the Sponsor-A-Highway Program webpage.
Senator Albertson's "Mean About Clean" Jingle Press Release

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Neighborhood Leaders Alliance Meeting

Neighborhood Leaders Alliance meeting ~ Thursday, June 23rd ~ 4PM

The City of Salisbury's Community Appearance Commission invites NOMA residents to the next Neighborhood Leaders Alliance meeting on Thursday, September 27th, at 4PM at One Water Street.

Among other items, the Neighborhood Leaders Alliance will discuss the upcoming BlockWork 2016 project, a Code Services update, and "Trash Talk"!

With questions, or for further information, you are encouraged to contact: 

Diana Moghrabi 
Senior Administrative Specialist 
Community Planning Services 
City of Salisbury 
217 South Main Street 
Salisbury, NC 28144 
Office: 704-638-5240 
dmogh@salisburync.gov

If you are interested in serving on one of the City of Salisbury's boards or commissions, you may fill out an online application by going to the Boards and Commissions tab at www.salisburync.gov. 

We hope to see a big turn-out of NOMA neighbors at this meeting! 

 See you there!



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What's Next for NOMA? Exciting Times Ahead!

This is a great time to be in the North Main Neighborhood!  

The City of Salisbury, the Community Development Corporation, and our State DOT collaborated with NOMA on a North Main Neighborhood Impact Project that has resulted in a green space at the corner of East 11th Street and North Main Street, with new curbs, storm drains, and gutters, a new attractive bus shelter, and newly planted trees.  The long abandoned (and eyesore!) gas station was demolished.  What an improvement to this City of Salisbury corridor!

The Historic Salisbury Foundation has invested in not one, not two, but THREE endangered homes in the historic district that sits at the center of this 400+ home neighborhood.  Stabilization efforts through the Foundation's revolving fund will create more opportunities for families to live in our neighborhood.

The City's Community Appearance Commission put NOMA on their 2015-16 goals with specific references to creating pocket parks and working towards implementing the North Main Small Area Improvement Plan, approved by City Council in 2007 but not as yet implemented.  Neighbors signed a letter to Council this January, in time for Council's planning retreat, asking for implementation of the Improvement Plan in that it mimics the safety concerns for our residents that are outlined in the recently approved Complete Streets Plan for Long and East Innes Streets.

Citizens were proactive in speaking out to Code Enforcement, Salisbury Police, and City Council to get the burned and abandoned home and former service station at Main and W. Steele Street ~ resulting in the demolition of those buildings, and a new grade to the lot.

We have a Fresh Egg Farm-to-Home program!  Two Pigs Farm is furnishing NOMA with farm fresh eggs!  Email northmainneighborhood@gmail.com to find out more, and/or email twopigsfarm@gmail.com to order eggs in advance.  Eggs are delivered fresh every Friday night for Saturday morning availability!

The neighborhood has rallied with a new Board of Directors and new officers.  The Board returned to the moniker 'The Old North Salisbury Association', which was always the formal, long-standing, and registered name of

the neighborhood association.  The Board has plans are in the works to get date plaques for homes in our historic district.  For more information or to order a plaque, email themainneighborhood@gmail.com.   As part of a push for membership, you can write a check for $35.00 which will include your $10.00 membership donation and $25.00 for the plaque.


The new Board of Directors hosts a meeting monthly on the second Friday, rotating to different homes in the neighborhood.  The Board meets first at 6:00PM, and then opens to a general neighborhood meeting at 7:00PM, often following the meeting with refreshments and a social hour so that neighbors can get to know one another!

So it's a great time to be live in NOMA!  There will be many more exciting improvements coming our way!

Join us!













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Preservation Opportunity in the North Main Neighborhood ~ For Free!

826 N. Main Street - For Sale - $65,000

The North Main Historic District of Salisbury is known for its inventory of wonderful vintage homes from the early 1900's.  But this kind of unique preservation  opportunity ~ and the chance to own a circa 1900 home doesn't come along every day!



Preservation Opportunity:

 

It's one heck of a real estate deal! 

A buyer can get a piece of property in a great location, not for a low price, but for no price. 

The Historic Salisbury Foundation owns the lot at 717 N. Main Street, and while the sign in the yard says “For Sale,” they will actually give it away . . FOR FREE.  

Free. . . if the buyer agrees to buy a house at 516 N. Main Street (currently Shulenburger Surveying) and move it two blocks to that lot.  The circa 1900 two-story building at 516 North Main will need to be moved soon or demolished, to make way for construction of the Salisbury-Rowan Central School Board Office. 

Architectural Rendering of the New Rowan-Salisbury School System Office at 516 N Main Street

 
Historic Salisbury Foundation will convey its vacant lot at 717 North Main Street to anyone who commits to relocating and rehabilitating the original 2-story home portion of the former circa 1900 home at 516 North Main Street, but it must be done very soon to avoid any delay to construction of the Rowan-Salisbury School System new central office building. The Foundation will donate the vacant lot if someone will pay the costs of moving 516 N. Main to the lot and rehabilitate it.  

The grass covered lot at 717 N. Main Street in the North Main Historic District, is just steps from downtown, it's level with a few nice trees, a sidewalk, city garbage and recycling, and of course, it's free for the asking . . .  if someone will pay the costs of moving the original two-story portion of the circa-1900 house at 516 N. Main St. to the lot and rehabilitate it.

The house at 516 N Main, and the structure next door that used to be the home of J & M Flowers, must make way for the new central office for the school system.  They could tear them both down, but Brian Davis, Executive Director of the Historic Salisbury Foundation, and the City of Salisbury, came up with something creative.  The City's Historic Preservation Committee approved demolition with the encouragement that they collaborate with the Historic Salisbury Foundation and work together to try and find an alternative . . . and it's worth a try.  The home, once moved, would be part of the NOMA (North Main) Neighborhood and be located within the North Main Historic District.

Challenge #1:

The house is only about two blocks from the lot, but a railroad crossing means moving the house will also take some creative thinking. Moving the home from A to B and putting it on a new foundation including site work, may cost in the neighborhood of $50,000-$60,000.  However, the new owner would be getting a two story house built about 1900 and a lot for that investment of $50,000-$60,000.

Challenge #2: 

Someone would have to step up in the next 2-3 weeks and say, "We want this house, we're going to take the lot, we're going to commit to making this happen.” Anyone interested needs to step up soon, like within the next 2-3 weeks, otherwise the house will have a date with the wrecking ball. The Rowan School System hopes to have the new Salisbury-Rowan Central School Board Office built and occupied by December 2015/January 2016 so plans are moving full-speed-ahead. 

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from 1913, when the house was occupied by Martha & Joseph T. Carson.

Boston's Alley was an African-American neighborhood where several laborers and their families lived.

Benefits:

• If the house can be saved, it would be good for environment in that it would keep construction materials out of the landfill.  
• It actually could save the school board some money to have a two story demolition that is not in a land fill with land fill use fees.
• It's one heck of a real estate deal!

Anyone interested in the house and lot package or just wants to learn more, can call the Historic Salisbury Foundation at 704-636-0103.

Picture of 516 North Main from the 1940s. We're working to find someone to move the house before it would be demolished to make way for the new Salisbury-Rowan County Central School Board Office.

To see other homes for sale in the North Main Historic District of Salisbury, North Carolina, contact Greg Rapp of Wallace Realty.  Greg is known for his knowledge of historic homes and has sold many homes in the North Main district!  Call Greg today at 704.213.6846 or visit www.realestatesalisbury.net


This article was adapted from David Whisenat's January 15, 2015 article,  "Foundation willing to give lot away for free, but there is one catch", from wbtv.com.

http://www.wbtv.com/story/27861118/foundation-willing-to-give-lot-away-for-free-but-there-is-one-catch






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Public Forum Today! Complete Streets Plan Mirrors Desires for North Main!

The Public Forum for the Complete Streets proposal that would affect major change to another of our downtown Salisbury NC neighborhoods is TODAY:

The Complete Street concept was presented to Salisbury City Council on December 2, 2014. Today, January 6th, City Council will hold a Public Hearing to receive public comment.

Mayor Paul Woodson and City Council member are urging the public to come forward for this important public input opportunity.

You can review the original presentation to City Council member in the video here:



Please consider attending the Complete Streets Public Forum at City Hall on January 6th at 4:00pm and give your input in public comment. 

If you are unable to attend (we know 4:00PM is a tough time slot for many!), please email your comments to mhear@salisburync.gov prior to the hearing. This is an accepted form of public input.  Sometimes Council will read your emailed input aloud during the hearing.

While the changes proposed deal directly with the S. Long Street and Innes Street corridor, the proposed changes mirror nearly exactly the changes the NOMA neighborhood would like to see along the N. Main Street corridor:

• Reduced road widths (a road diet!) and accompanying reduced speeds and traffic calming
• Safe pedestrian crossings
• Support for multi-modal transportation, such as bike lanes and improved sidewalks.
• Attractive streetscape and landscape schemes.

We believe that supporting this change in one of our sister neighborhoods that will be a monumental move by the City, will only make adopting similar changes in the North Main Neighborhood that much more achievable.  The proposed changes are also consistent with the North Main Small Area Improvement Plan that was unanimously approved by City Council in July of 2007, but for which little to no implementation has begun.

It is noteworthy that the North Main Neighborhood is on the 2015 goals and planning for the City's Community Appearance Commission (CAC),  who has already worked to get the 11th & N. Main Street Beautification Project in place.  The CAC, in conjunction with the Historic Salisbury Foundation, is hosting a Volunteer Day on January 24th to plant trees in our new green space at the corner of E. 11th and N. Main Streets.

The Innes/Long Street Corridor Plan link is posted in the following three locations of the city webpage and available as a hard copy for review at the City's One Stop Shop at 132 N. Main Street:

• http://www.salisburync.gov
• http://www.salisburync.gov/Dep.../Engineering/Pages/default.aspx
• http://www.salisburync.gov/.../CommunityPl.../Pages/default.aspx

For more info, you can contact:
Diana Moghrabi / City Planning Office
704-638-5242
dmogh@salisburync.gov


 

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Salisbury City Council ~ Please Implement Our North Main Improvement Plan!

Hello Friends & Neighbors!

A representative from the NOMA neighborhood attended City Council meeting on December 16th to voice concerns about the appearance and condition of the North Main Street corridor. The North Main Improvement Plan ~ approved unanimously by City Council July 2007 ~ has not yet been implemented.

The North Main Corridor is the last remaining residential corridor into the City, saved from becoming another commercially infested 'Innes Street' by the residents who live there. We are soon to become an even more highly visible corridor, with the upcoming Central School Office coming to North Main, and the highly successful programming at the NC Transportation Museum to the north. At Council's open forum portion of their agenda, our representative said the neighborhood supported reduced lane widths along N. Main Street, implementation of on-street parking, and planted medians along N. Main since that corridor is no longer the bypass for Interstate-85. All these items are per the North Main Improvement plan and are in synchronicity with our residential culture and would enhance the same.

We additionally asked City Council if, in their upcoming planning retreat in February, they would consider how to work with the Housing Advocacy Commission and the Community Appearance Commission to develop stronger ordinances to prevent the Demolition by Neglect we are seeing in NOMA and throughout other areas of the City.

Our representative had asked in an earlier Council open forum for attention and help from City Services with the street weeds growing on Main Street between the curb and the road, citing that residents along N. Main Street (who are normally charged with maintenance of this City-owned extension of their property) cannot be expected to stand in the road along this busy corridor to trim street weeds.

Speed limits are often exceeded along this wide stretch of road, and it would simply put our residents at risk to ask them to perform this maintenance, especially when the City has the tools to provide the service and provides the same in other neighborhoods. 

At the close of that open forum, Mayor Woodson said he agreed that this was endangering our residents and asked Interim-City Manager John Sofley to implement the weed removal.

At the close of the December 16th meeting, Mayor Woodson asked if the previously requested weed removal had been accomplished, we told Council members it had not, and he again requested of Mr. Sofley to please attend to.

We wished Council members a Merry Christmas & Happy New Year ~ and we hope that our concerns do not fall on deaf ears!  Go, NOMA!!

If you would like to see a copy of the North Main Small Area Improvement Plan, please contact City Planning administration:


Diana Moghrabi
Senior Administrative
Specialist Planning, Code Enforcement, Engineering
Office: 704-638-5242
Fax: 704-638-8437
dmogh@salisburync.gov

City of Salisbury
217 South Main St.
Salisbury, NC 28144










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