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WCA Home Page
Whitneyville.org is the website of the Whitneyville Civic Association (WCA), a neighborhood association which provides residents and business owners in the Whitneyville community with a voice in civic matters concerning our neighborhood.
We organize to maintain and promote the unique social, ecological and historic character of Whitneyville. Members and friends of the WCA meet 6 times each year to share ideas and hear about issues affecting our neighborhood.
Mark Your Calendar
Upcoming Public WCA Meeting:
Thursday, March 8th
Whitneyville United Church of Christ
(Basement)
1253 Whitney Ave.
7:00 PM - 9:00PM
This Month we will be having Millie Lengenhausen of Home and Hearth Realty (1220 Whitney Ave.) speak to us about property values and real estate in Whitneyville.
After that we will have a few minutes to socialize and they we will have out regular meeting which will include the latest updates on traffic calming in Whitneyville, what the latest news and opportunities are with the Garden Club and other happenings around the neighborhood.
Parking on the church grounds or across the street in the Municipal Lot
Public is Welcome
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Please note:
After some neglect we are updating this web site. It is a work in progress and there is a bit of a learning curve we are experiencing as we do this. In most cases it will be fairly obvious if something is current or if the information is referring to meetings or events from a year or more ago. It is our intention that in the next couple of months this will, once again be completely up to date and relevant. Thank you for your patience as we work through this. (Latest update 3-05-12)
New Food Options Arrive in Whitneyville!
The Soup Girl (www.thesoupgirl.com
) and Erica Obrien Cake Design (www.ericaobrien.com
) are opening at 1242 Whitney Ave.
next to First Niagara Bank. They will be
offering soup, cup cakes and other goodies to go as well as to order.
Last month Erica brought some sample cupcakes to the WCA
meeting and they were great! Go by
welcome them to the neighborhood, try some goodies and introduce yourself.
We now have a number of places to grab a bit of something
right here in Whitneyville; the Playwright, Le Petite Gourmet, Legal Grounds
(inside Books and Company), The Whitneyville Food Market, The Swedish Bakery
(they have soup of the day too) and sometimes there are breakfasts or lunches
at the Whitneyville Church as well as occasionally Yoga and food at Your
Community Yoga Center. We are blessed
with many options of ways and places to eat without your cooking! Bon Appetite!
Traffic Study In Progress!
The Whitneyville Civic Association along with the Spring Glen Civic Association as well as other groups have been pushing for a comprehensive traffic study for southern Hamden to see what measures we might take to calm traffic and make our neighborhoods safer and more "Livable". After much preliminary work, studies, and traffic measurements we are happy to say that Hamden in now in the process of doing just that. We have had public meetings with the professional traffic consultants the city has hired to help with this issue. In one of the recent meetings the consultants gave us some background on traffic calming, what is and what is not traffic calming and what tools/options were available to us in this regard. After the "educational" component of the meeting we had the opportunity to speard out some large maps and go over our neighborhoods one street at a time looking at all the possibilities, each intersections and voice our opinions on which of the various tools might be the most effective and cost effective. We had the opportunity to educate the consultants a bit too about areas in question beyond what a simple statistical traffic study might tell them. We were able to give them a much richer context for the neighborhoods than they would otherwise have. They took lots of notes and let us know there would be other meetings for more dialogue before they make their recommendations to the city. To hear the what's happened in the past two months come to out meeting and get the low down from Lisa.
Many Thanks to the countless hours Lisa kamemoto and her team have put in on this issue
WCA's Top 5 Priority List:
(as of Sept 2011)
1. Traffic Calming Initiatives: building of a traffic circle at the 5- corner point on Mather; speed humps on key roads/locations (Mather, Treadwell, Carleton).
2. Putnam/Augur bike lane
3. Fix the Putnam and Whitney Ave crossing (the heart of
Whitneyville): repair the electric conduits sticking out of the ground and sidewalks; add bike racks.
4. Maintain funding for the Whitneyville Branch Library. Change schedule to include Saturday mornings.
New # 5: Install a bicycle rack
For additional information, contact us at info@whitneyville.org
The Whitneyville Civic Association
P.O. Box 6031
Hamden, CT 06517
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