WHCA 2015 LIST OF PRIORITIES & ACTION ITEMS SUMBITTED FOR

CONSIDERATION
Submitted By
Sara Auchincloss Goberdhansingh,
Communication/Bylaws
Ethel Shelton
Traffic/Crime/Safety Cmte, Public Schools
Cmte

Priority/Action Item
Translate bylaws & membership activation form to Spanish
Streets Need to be paved
Speed Bumps (Dawson, Galt, Blueridge, Medway, & in Immediate vicinity of
Highland Elementary)

Traffic/Crime/Safety Cmte, Public Schools Better Marked & More Visible Crosswalks at Major Intersections, Veirs Mill,
Cmte, Jenny Aley
Georgia, & in Immediate vicinity of school
Traffic/Crime/Safety, Public Schools,
Jenny Aley

Sidewalks on Major Traffic Areas & On EL/MS/HS School Routes (Parker (biggest
push), Judson, Dawson, Galt, Blueridge, Fenimore, Medway)

Beautification, Jared Hautamaki

Open up the creek at Parker in the block before Wheaton Claridge Park so it can
create a more natural and beautiful feel and generally improve the creek.

Beautification, Jared Hautamaki, Public

Schools

Ensure the County remembers their commitment to improving Wheaton-Claridge

Park, putting in the new playground, in an environmentally friendly way.

Public Schools

County Funded Programs to take place at Wheaton-Claridge Park to get kids time
out in the woods.

Beautification, Carrie Hautamaki

Look into grants to get Big Belly Trashcans installed throughout neighborhood in
high traffic areas & at bus stops

Jenny Aley

Repair and improve the pedestrian path along the Broadview right-of-way that
leads from Fenimore to Dawson to Collins to Parker to Kingtree and into the
southern part of Wheaton-Claridge Park.

Carrie Hautamaki
Carrie Hautamaki

Abandoned/inoperative/tagless vehicles left in streets

Businesses being operated out of homes

Donna Smith

Traffic circle at the intersection of judson and henderson and henderson court is
needed. (6 roads intersect & county attempts at moving the stop signs over the
years has not improved the situation. Traffic circle is only remaining option.)

Public Schools

Recruitment and involvement of the Latino community at Highland in the Civic

Association (potential for County assistance/funding for translation services, etc?)

Public Schools

Involvement of students in Civic Association activities where they can obtain

student service learning (SSL) hours.

Beautification

Coordinate with local stores for grocery cart retrieval and begin a regular
neighborhood cleanup

Communication/Bylaws, Membership

A community outreach and engagement plan (get more neighbors involved and
active, translation, etc.)

Communication/Bylaws, Membership
Jason Weidenfeld
Jason Weidenfeld
Jason Weidenfeld

Communications tools (a website, an electronic newsletter, templates for press

releases, etc.)
Work w/WMATA to improve the odors (human waste), appearance (abandoned
shopping carts), and maintenance of area around outside elevator/steps to the
parking garage.
Stronger and/or more lighting along sidewalks on Grandview from Blueridge
to Avena (and probably other areas).
A campaign informing neighbors any county regulations regarding what can be
kept on their property/how to erect structures on their property to contain items
kept outside.