Traffic/Parking

Representative from RIPTA to discuss potential new bus route in Summit

A representative from RIPTA will attend the next SNA Board meeting to hear our neighbors’ thoughts and answer questions on the proposed new bus route in Summit.

If you took part in the survey we posted, or if you have other thoughts, concerns, suggestions, or questions, please come present them on Monday, December 13.  The meeting will begin at 6:30pm with regular business, and the RIPTA representative is on the agenda to start at 7pm.  Regular meeting business will continue after.

The meeting will be held at Summit Commons (99 Hillside Ave) in the cafe (not the main dining room).  Enter in the front entrance, go right after the front desk and the cafe is on your left.

Here is some info on the subject, with comments below.

Hope you can make it!

By SNA Admin, ago

Clarke’s Flower shop zoning issue postponed until September meeting

In case you have not heard it elsewhere, the drive-thru zoning issue will not be on this evening’s agenda at City Hall.  It will likely be on the September agenda.

There is good discussion on this issue at the Preserve Providence”s Hope Street Facebook page, if you’d like to follow further:

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=147165855300258&ref=mf#!/group.php?gid=147165855300258&v=info

By SNA Admin, ago

Miriam moves date of parking meeting

Miriam Hospital has moved the date of the neighborhood Parking Meeting (see below) to April 19 to avoid conflicts with public meetings on the city’s Comprehensive Plan.

The hospital has provided this schedule of upcoming events:

Landscaping Meeting

Tuesday, April 17th 6:30-8:30pm in the Fain Building second floor Lecture Hall.

This meeting is being held solely to discuss the landscaping that will accompany the completion of the new Clinical Services Building.

Please call 401 793 4040 to RSVP your attendance at this meeting.

Neighborhood Parking Meeting

Please join us on April 19th at 6:30pm at the Rochambeau Library Community Room to discuss issues related to parking.  The Miriam Hospital has hired Vanasse Hangen Brustlin, Inc as parking consultants to help us plan for our future parking needs in an effort to reduce hospital parking that affects the neighborhood.

Representatives from the firm of Vanasse Hangen Brustlin, Inc. (VHB) will lead this meeting.  Members of The Miriam Hospital Parking Committee will also be present.

Neighborhood Tree Planting

Our newest and leafiest members of the neighborhood will be planted on Friday, April 27th.  New trees are being placed on sections of Third, Seventh and Eighth Streets beginning at 9am on that Friday.  Please call Monica Anderson @ 401 793 4040 if you are available to lend a helping hand!

 

Questions or comments?

Please call the Miriam Hospital Neighborhood Hotline at 401 793 4040 or email us at tmhneighbors@lifespan.org

 

By SNA Admin, ago

Miriam wants resident input on parking

Miriam Hospital has invited residents to a meeting on parking issues on Thursday, April 12 at 6:30 in the Fain Building on Fifth St (2nd floor lecture room). The meeting is part of a traffic study being conducted by consultants as a condition of Miriam’s approved master plan.

Officials from the Providence Police and the Providence Department of Planning and Development will be there as well.

Miriam treated more than 100,000 patients, including inpatients, emergency room visitors and outpatients in 2005, all but a very few arriving by car. A staff of more than 2,200, plus 800 or more affiliated doctors, must also come and go. With the current expansion and created a planned future growth in emergency room capacity, we can expect hospital parking needs to increase in the years ahead.

By SNA Admin, ago

Zoning Board says “no” to second driveway

The Providence Zoning Board of Review refused to grant a variance to build a second driveway at a house at 170-174 Fourth Street on August 22. SNA argued against the variance, the second parking-related variance requested and refused for this property in the last year. Former SNA Board member Bonnie Robison mobilized neighbors to oppose the variance. Two neighbors spoke at the hearing and 14 more expressed opposition by letter or petition. (more…)

By SNA Admin, ago

Takin’ it to the streets

Over the past few months, we’ve had an increased volume and variety of conversations about the streets of Summit – traffic calming, parking enforcement, signage, and resident parking permits. Some of these (traffic calming Phase I) are done deals, and some (parking permits, further traffic calming) are long term discussions. But parking signage and enforcement are every day issues. (more…)

By sna, ago

Citizens responds swiftly to neighbor concerns

SNA salutes Citizens Bank Hope Street Branch Manager Sandra Carey and Regional Manager Dennis Wyatt for their rapid action on a neighbor concerns about safety at their lot on the corner of Hope and Lauriston. Neighbors cited traffic and pedestrian safety, noise, some after-hours uses of the lot and the property’s appearance among their issues with Citizens. At the bank’s request, neighbors are now developing requests for improved landscaping. (more…)

By SNA Admin, ago