<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd xhtml 1.0 transitional//en" "http://www.w3.org/tr/xhtml1/dtd/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <title>Council of Neighborhood Associations - St. Petersburg, FL</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /> <style type="text/css"> <!-- body { background-color: #669900; } --> </style> <link href="cona.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /> </head> <body> <table width="720" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="4" bordercolor="#FFFFFF" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <tr> <td bgcolor="white"><img src="images/cona1.jpg" width="360" height="116" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td> <table width="720" height="124" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#ffffff"> <tr> <td width="1" align="center" valign="middle"><img src="images/stpete1.jpg" alt="St. petersburg" width="720" height="254" border="0" /></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <table width="720" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bordercolor="#FFFFFF" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" border="0"> <tr> <td colspan="6"><img src="/images/spacer.gif" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"><img src="images/spacer.gif" width="10" height="10" /></td> <td width="150" align="right" valign="top"> <div id="links"> <ul> <li><a href="index.php">Home</a></li> <li><a href="meetings.php">Meetings</a></li> <li><a href="neighborhoods.php">Neighborhoods</a></li> <li><a href="priorities.php">Priorities</a></li> <li><a href="newsletters.php">Newsletters</a></li> <li><a href="resources.php">Resources</a></li> <li><a href="conabylaws.pdf" target="_blank">Bylaws <span class="small">[PDF]</span></a></li> <li><a href="officers.php">Officers</a></li> <li><a href="/blog/" target="_blank">CONA Blog</a></li> </ul> </div> </td> <td width="40">&nbsp;</td> <td width="475" valign="top"> <h2>2006 CONA Priorities </h2> <p>CONA has announced their list of priorities for the coming year. Compiled and voted on at the January and February meetings, they are listed below in order of importance to CONA members. For more information or to join in our effort, please access our website or contact a CONA Officer. </p> <br> <p><h1>Policing Issues</h1> Incluing staffing, budgets, community policing and officer pay. We hope to expand the Court Watch program this year to help the police and state attorney put away the repeat criminals.</p> <br> <p><h1>Environmental Issues</h1> including - environmental codes and enforcement, runoff, silting, dredging and permeable surfaces. A City of lakes, waterfront, wetlands and days of 11¯‹ of rain, has many issues. Last month a group that is organizing harbor cleanups came to ask for our help. The largest project we have ever attempted, Pinellas Living Green Expo, is going to connect thousands of people with concrete actions they can take to save power, fuel, water, money and the environment. Check out the web site: <a href=" www.pinellaslivinggreenexpo.org" target="_blank"> www.PinellasLivingGreenExpo.org</a>.</p> <br> <p><h1>Monitoring the LDR's (zoning)</h1> The new city-wide rezoning ordinance passed the Planning Commission in February after six years of discussions! Bob Jeffrey, the City staffer in charge of this huge effort, spoke to CONA in February to give us a status report. The Downtown Neighborhood Association has played a significant role in the new zoning for downtown. This rezoning process will take most of the year to work through the many approvals needed.</p> <br> <p><h1>Underground Utilities </h1> As long as Florida has hurricanes and communities want more attractive streets, we will discuss under grounding utilities. The PSC (Public Service Commission) is currently considering how to address this issue. This is an expensive and long term project. A number of beach communities are doing this at this time. St. Petersburg has placed utilities underground downtown and along some corridors like 34th St. because it is more attractive.</p> <br> <p><h1>Traffic Calming</h1> No issue causes more division in a neighborhood. The City is getting better every year at building devices that slow the traffic without ripping off your muffler. The problem is that most of us want to drive over the speed limit until we get two blocks from our home! We will renew conversations with the traffic calming staff about future plans and how to balance citizens conflicting desires. As the City's bike lanes and sidewalk system expands, this becomes an even more important safety issue.</p> <br> <a href="05priorities.php" target="_top">View our 2005 Priorities</a> <td width="40">&nbsp;</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="6"><img src="images/spacer.gif" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <div id="address"> <p>CONA<br /> P.O. 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