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Upcoming Meetings and SouthWorks Tour

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Hello neighbors, 

The Spencer Road Neighborhood Association will be holding its March meeting on 3/15 from 1-3pm at Tompkins Community Action. There we will be discussing grant funding and organizing our spring neighborhood clean up.

In addition:

You are invited to join the Spencer Road Neighborhood Association for two upcoming opportunities to learn more about the SouthWorks project. These are opportunities specifically geared towards us who live downhill from this project, as we may have specific concerns about traffic, stormwater runoff, etc. 

There will be a meeting Monday 3/3 from 6-8pm, and a tour Saturday 3/8 tour from 1-3pm. Please let your neighbors/friends who live in the Titus Flats and Spencer Rd areas know. Details below.

The SouthWorks project is the planned adaptive reuse of 820,000SF of existing factory space (formerly the Morse Chain/Emerson Power Transmission factory) on a 95-acre site which straddles the City and Town of Ithaca. This mixed-use project will include both commercial and residential spaces, renovations & new construction to create a mixed-use neighborhood integrated into Ithaca’s South Hill.

During the Monday presentation, Rob Lewis, Development Project Manager, and Sarah Barden, Community Outreach & Leasing Coordinator, will provide a history and status update on the project, with a focus on how SouthWorks will relate to the downhill neighborhoods of Spencer Road and Titus Flats. Featured topics will include stormwater management, traffic studies, housing plan, Gateway Trail activation, and 2025 occupancy & art opportunities. Please bring your questions, curiosity, and ideas! The presentation will Monday 3/3 from 6-8pm at Tompkins Community Action (601 Spencer Rd). Parking is available. Use the side entrance (there will be a sign on the door). 

During the Saturday tour (3/8, 1-3pm), Rob & Sarah will provide a brief overview of the project, then lead attendees on a walking tour of the main complex of existing factory buildings, with ample opportunity for discussion & questions. This tour typically involves several flights of stairs and 1-2 miles of walking. Attendees should use the entrance across from South Hill Elementary School at 620 South Aurora Street. Please plan to be there by 1pm. The tour will leave the meeting point at 1:15pm; it will not be possible to catch up to the tour after the group has left. If any attendees have mobility limitations, please contact Sarah in advance so we can adapt the route. All attendees must wear closed-toed shoes and sign a waiver.

Contact information for questions about either the presentation or the tour can be sent to Sarah at sbarden@shiftcapital.us! Please RSVP so you can be notified directly in case of any changes to the event dates/details.

Upcoming Meeting

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Come meet your neighbors this Saturday, January 11th at 11 AM in the community room of Tompkins Community Action (at the Buttermilk Falls end of the street) to share concerns and coffee (or juice) and snacks.

Since the Department of Public Works does not have public meetings at the moment, we will talk about what else we can do to raise our concerns about traffic and the need for improved signage. If there are other issues you would like to share, this is a good time to bring those to wider attention.

As always, please remember that the entrance to the community room is in the rear of the building. Take the driveway immediately on the right after you enter the property, then turn left into the parking lot. There will be a sign on the door.

September Neighborhood Meeting

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We’ll be getting together again for our next neighborhood meeting on Saturday, September 7 at 11:00am. The meeting will take place in the community room of Tompkins Community Action at 701 Spencer Road, the Buttermilk Falls (south) end of our street. As a reminder, the entrance is in the rear of the building, near the walking trail to Buttermilk Falls State Park.

Here is the planned agenda for our meeting. If there is anything you’d like to add to the agenda, please attend the meeting to share.

As always, we’ll have coffee and some snacks, and some open time for neighbors to share what’s going on.

Road Signage Information Gathering

After our June meeting, we shared this Road Signage Info Gathering form in order to collect suggestions from neighborhood residents about their suggestions for road signs needed along Spencer Road. If you have any suggestions for signage, please complete the form. We will compile responses during this meeting and prepare a request to the city.

Summer Neighborhood Picnic moved to 503 Spencer Road

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Update (8/18 at 10:00): Unfortunately it looks like the rain isn’t going to stay away long enough to make Buttermilk Falls a viable option for us, so we are taking up Rain and Bill Deets’ generous offer and are moving the summer picnic location to 503 Spencer Road. See you there at 11:30!

Update (8/17 at 11:00): Due to the rain starting currently, and the likely event of heavier rains to come, we are postponing our neighborhood picnic. For now, we’re going to use our rain date of tomorrow, Sunday, August 18 at 11:30. We’re going to keep an eye on the forecast through today and tomorrow morning, and if rain threatens tomorrow as well, we will likely need to cancel the picnic entirely.

Spencer Road Neighborhood Association Picnic. Aug 17 at 11:10am at lower Buttermilk Falls State Park.

Come celebrate the summer and meet your neighbors at the Spencer Road Neighborhood Picnic at on Saturday, August 17 at 11:30am at Lower Buttermilk Falls State Park. Please bring your favorite picnic foods to share — as well as your own plates and cutlery, if you can! — and come relax and chat in the park. The park’s hiking trails and swimming area will likely be open, so you can explore this local gem while you’re there!

Parking is available at Buttermilk Falls State Park for $9 per car for a full day. The park is also accessible via a short walking trail behind Tompkins Community Action at the south end of Spencer Road.

Looking ahead…

Our next formal meeting will be on Saturday, September 7 at 11:00am at Tompkins Community Action on Spencer Rd. Among other business, we’ll be planning our fall neighborhood cleanup taking place on Saturday, October 5.

June Neighborhood Meeting

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Our next neighborhood meeting will on Saturday, June 15th at 11am in the community room of Tompkins Community Action. The entrance to the community room is in the back off the rear parking lot. Take the driveway immediately on the right after you enter from Spencer Road, then turn left once you reach the rear of the building.

As always, we’ll have coffee and some snacks, and we’ll share our ideas and concerns. In particular, we are wondering about having a neighborhood picnic at Lower Buttermilk Park sometime in August, and we’d love to hear your thoughts.

May Neighborhood Clean Up

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Spencer Road Neighborhood Clean Up Saturday May 4th (rain date May 5th)

Please join your neighbors at 10:00 am on Saturday, May 4th for a big spring cleaning event along Spencer Road. We’ll meet on the 400 block (outside 410 Spencer Road) at 10:00, where the neighborhood association will provide some heavy duty trash bags and we’ll split off to gather up trash.

Everybody is welcome to join a follow-up pizza party at noon at the Amici House of Tompkins County Action at 701 Spencer Road. We’ll have a chance for some informal chatting at the Amici House.

If there is substantial weather (i.e., rain), we will instead meet at on Sunday, May 5 at same place and time.

June Meeting

Our next formal meeting will be on Saturday, June 15 at 11:00, likely at Stone Quarry Apartments again, where our primary order of business will be organizing some efforts to request some new traffic signage in our neighborhood.

Upcoming Meeting and Neighborhood Clean Up

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April Neighborhood Meeting

Our next Spencer Road Neighborhood Association meeting will be Saturday, April 6th at 11am. This time we will be meeting in the community room of Stone Quarry Apartments, 400 Spencer Road. Please join us to meet our new city council representatives, Phoebe Brown and Kayla Matos. We’ll have coffee and some snacks, and time to get to know each other and to share our concerns about the Spencer Road community.

Parking is extremely limited at the apartments, so walk if you are able; otherwise, plan to park on the street. There is also limited seating in the community room, so bring a folding chair if you can. Those of us who live closest will bring some extras to share.

May Neighborhood Clean Up

Please join us on Saturday, May 4th at 10am (rain date: Sunday, May 5th at 10am) to pick up trash along our neighborhood streets and sidewalks.

Meet up with the neighborhood group on the 400 block at 10am. Trash bags will be available for use. Filled bags can be dropped off in the 400 block at the sign posted. Please collect only road-side debris; don’t include your household trash or garbage.

Come join your neighbors as we work to make this a better community for us all!

February Meeting

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Our next meeting will be on Saturday, February 24 from 11 to 1 in the Community Room at Tompkins Community Action (701 Spencer Road), on the Buttermilk Falls end of the street.

To get to the meeting room, you will need to go in the back entrance. Go up the driveway on the right before you reach the main building. There is parking in the rear if you will be driving. The entrance is on the parking lot side.

As always, there will be coffee, juice, and some snacks. Bring any concerns to share and come say “hi” to your neighbors. We look forward to seeing you there!

December Meeting

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Our next meeting will be on Sunday, December 17 from 11 to 1 in the Community Room at Tompkins Community Action (701 Spencer Road), on the Buttermilk Falls end of the street.

To get to the meeting room, you will need to go in the back entrance. Go up the driveway on the right before you reach the main building. There is parking in the rear if you will be driving. The entrance is on the parking lot side.

Note: We were originally going to hold this meeting on Saturday, the 16th, but had to move it due to another commitment to the room space.

Upcoming Meeting

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Our next meeting will be on Saturday, November 18 from 11 to 1 in the Community Room at Tompkins Community Action (701 Spencer Road), on the Buttermilk Falls end of the street.

To get to the meeting room, you will need to go in the back entrance. Go up the driveway on the right before you reach the main building. There is parking in the rear if you will be driving. The entrance is on the parking lot side.