Montecito Neighborhood Group

Montecito Neighborhood Group

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Our neighborhood consists of appoximately 110 single family residences. The houses range in years built from 1928 - 1948, with a few newer homes powdered into the neighborhood.
Our Historic sub-committe could use your help in researching the neighborhood. As of May 10, 1999 our boundries have expanded south to Indian School Road and north of Campbell Ave. So we now also have approximately 300 multi family housing units and 50 commercial buildings included.

Our neighborhood has been registered with the City of Phoenix since 1985.

We are strategicly located 1 mile from the Biltmore shopping center in the heart of the Camelback Core.

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About our association

May 14/01 ADOT meeting

Tonight we met with Bill Rawson and Fred Garcia of ADOT concerning the new HOV lane addition to SR 51 in 2003. Hopefully our sound wall will be heightened at that time.

Speed Humps Letter

May 14, 2001
1701 E. Roma Ave.
Phoenix, AZ 85016
Greg Stanton Councilman
City of Phoenix
200 W. Washington St.11th Floor
Phoenix, AZ 85003-1611

Dear Mr. Stanton,
We the board members of the Montecito Neighborhood Association feel we have been politically manipulated in our recent Fight Back. In 1997 we had a traffic study completed on 17th Street, from Indian School to Campbell, through our neighborhood. We were told, by Traffic Mitigation, after the study that we were eligible for three speed humps along this stretch of 17th Street. We were told that the Phoenix Traffic Department would pay for the speed humps but that we would have to pay for their painting. Also being told that we could place signage along 17th street and were given options to review. At that time we formed a sub-committee to review the options and make recommendations to our board.
During this time we received notice that our neighborhood was to be involved in a Fight Back. This Fight Back was three years long and began in March of 1998. This Fight Back was eventually chaired by Lisa Hubbard, from the Neighborhood Services Department of the City of Phoenix. We mentioned out mitigated speed humps from the first meetings of Fight Back and were assured that the Fight Back money could help up pay for the painting of these speed humps and to be patient. At the second to the last meeting of Fight Back in February 2001 we were told that there was enough money to do the three 17th Street speed humps and one on each of our 4 East-West streets. Lisa brought the new forms that needed to be signed by neighbors nearest the site of the speed hump locations. These new forms were a shock to us, not only did we have to apply for the 4 new speed humps but also for the 3 mitigated ones.
We turned in one form for one East-West street, Glenrosa Ave., as a test run in February and the counters were put in the street. We received our notice from traffic that if we wanted a speed hump at that location it would cost our Association $1200.00! We are willing to succumb to the fact that we are not going to succeed in getting speed humps on our 4 East-West streets, but we want the ones on 17th street that were promised over 3 years ago. At our final meeting of Fight Back we were told that there are no funds left for any of our speed humps and that the time span had run out on the 17th Street traffic mitigation.
In conclusion we feel that the City of Phoenix has manipulated us into thinking we were going to get the painting of our speed humps paid for and in reality it was a ploy to rob us of what was originally conceded, the speed humps themselves.

Sincerely,
Montecito Neighborhood Board of Directors