May 2025 Newsletter MAY RESIDENTS MEETING The SRA will be holding a residents meeting on Wednesday, May 7, from 7-8:30 PM in the upstairs community room at the Strathcona Community Centre. The agenda is wide open at this point, so please come with your concerns, questions, complaints, compliments, whatever. We’ll send out a zoom link…| Strathcona Residents Association
MARCH 2025 SRA NEWSLETTER Why Are They Closing Hawks? Starting soon, CoV will install concrete barriers at the end of Hawks at Prior to close it to pass through traffic. A number of you have expressed concern/confusion/alarm: “Why!? How will I get out of the neighborhood? Whose crazy idea was this?!” Well, it was the…| Strathcona Residents Association
February 2025 Newsletter| Strathcona Residents Association
One of Strathcona’s most endearing and enduring institutions is the Free Table, located midway down the 700 block of Union St. It was started over a decade ago by Hugh Tayler, who lives in the co-op. This is its story, told mostly in his words. Somewhere between 2007 and 2011, Hugh was working on a…| Strathcona Residents Association
SRA 2024 AGM| Strathcona Residents Association
PEOPLE’S PARK “Don’t it always seem to go that you don’t know what you’ve got til it’s gone.” In June 2024, the City announced plans to build an Annex for Fire Hall #2 (located at Main and Cordova) on Gore Ave. near the intersection with Union St. The Annex would include a two-bay garage, a…| Strathcona Residents Association
At our Nov. 5, 2024 meeting, City transportation staff gave a presentation on traffic calming measures coming in the next year, including: Pender at Dunlevy – raised intersection and curb bump-outs Campbell at Keefer -painted chicane Glen at Georgia – new pinch point, with bulges and curb ramps Prior at New St. Paul’s – turn…| Strathcona Residents Association
Community Asset Bank One of the most effective ways to address local issues is to be able to rely on the talents and expertise of the people who live here. You can be part of the solution by adding your name to our Community Asset Bank. We sometimes need help in areas like social media,…| Strathcona Residents Association
A report on the first-year results from the Strathcona Area Air Quality Study has just been released - and some of it is concerning. All nine monitors measuring Nitrogen Dioxide exceeded the annual average Metro Vancouver Ambient Air Quality Objective of 17 ppb. On a few days, the monitor beside the Burrard Inlet Rail Line even exceeded the daily one-hour maximum of 60 ppb. Here's a link to the summary report. Here's a link to the summary report.| Strathcona Residents Association
SRA Minutes Monday, Sept. 16 at the SCC Attendance: 24 in person, 7 remote via Zoom • We did introductions around the room Temporary Fire Hall Annex at Union and Gore • Dan update: o Progress of Temporary Firehall at Union and Gore on pause while staff finds more options o Dan summarized current status…| Strathcona Residents Association