Every January, members suggest priorities for the coming year and then vote on their first, second, and third choices. Here are our 2018 priorities and planned action:

1. Improve Rolando Park Business District

In late 2017, as part of the Banner District project, RPCC board members talked with most of the Rolando Park businesses on University. Many owners are also interested in seeing revitalization and improvement to University Avenue. Look for a Rolando Park Community Council Business Group to launch sometime in the next few months. We want to work with business owners to clean up the appearance of University and see if we can attract new development. There will be many opportunities for members to participate and volunteer.

2. Traffic – Volume and Speeding

Traffic is still a priority for our community this year. RPCC will continue to promote the Community Pace Car project to encourage residents to be aware of their speed when driving in our community. We will also work with Traffic Engineering to try to secure the three traffic calming radar speed display signs that traffic studies showed last year are warranted and also look for other options to reduce volume and speeding.

3. Pocket Park Improvement

The homeless camp was vacated in January and Environmental Services cleaned the site in mid-February. We hope to have the landscape trimmed back this spring.

4. Highly Visible Crosswalks/Walkable Neighborhoods

Last year, several requests to Traffic Engineering for marked sidewalks in the community were turned down. This year, board members will be contacting Circulate San Diego and Vision Zero and looking for their recommendations on ways we can keep our community walkable and safe.

5. Continue the Holiday Giving Tree

The 2017 Holiday Giving Tree reached its goal to give a gift to every student at RPE. We already have volunteers to drive next year’s Giving Tree.

6. Presentation on the Homeless

The SDPD Homeless Outreach Team (HOT) will give a presentation at our March meeting.

7. RPE PTA Presentation

The RPE PTA will give a presentation this fall; check the fall newsletter for details.

Other suggested priorities were addressing unkept houses, adult protective services, an update on utilities undergrounding, and more participation in our volunteer Lean and Clean. These suggestions received only a small number of votes, but if anyone in the community is interested in pursuing any of them, please let us know.