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Spring 2014 News From the East Ocean View Civic League www.livingeov.com

SAVE THE DATE! INSIDE In conjunction with The Great American Cleanup and Keep THIS ISSUE... Norfolk Beautiful, the East Ocean View Civic League will sponsor a Litter Cleanup on May 3rd. The • A Letter From the event will be based out of the EOV Recreation Center parking lot President located at 9520 20th Bay Street. Please plan to help pick up litter • East Ocean View from 9-12:30 followed by a picnic Civic League Minutes lunch and dedication of our new Kayak ramp from 12:30-2:00.

• Great News for our Volunteers will be asked to work in Beaches! the following areas: Call Ann if you can help out with a truck • Beach and Bay Streets north of East that day. • Senate Approves Ocean View Avenue House-Passed Flood • 1-10th Bay A picnic lunch of hamburgers and • 11-21st Bay hotdogs will be served to all volunteers Insurance Bill • East Beach and Bay Breeze Point following the cleanup. Display tables will • Harbor Walk and the area bordered by be manned by the EOV Medical Center, • New Residents Thompson Road, Little Creek Road Coach Dwight, as well as our project and Pretty Lake sponsor from 12-2pm so volunteers can learn more about our community. • Adapting to Sea Groups will be dispatched from REC to Everyone is encouraged to get involved. Level Rise their targeted locations using a shuttle van If you or your group wishes to become from New Life Christian Center. Bags and a sponsor, please contact: Ann Bolen gloves will be provided. You are requested 362-0337. The RAIN DATE is May 17th, to wear closed toed shoes. No flip flops are same time. We hope the event is a allowed. Pick- up trucks are needed. We chance to meet new neighbors and get could use 2 more trucks to insure volunteers our community looking great in time for have sufficient water and supplies. the summer.

Upcoming EOVCL Meetings Meetings are the first Thursday of each month at the East Ocean Community Center EOVCL Board of Directors Meetings Last Thursday of the Month Civic League Information

LETTER FROM PRESIDENT EOVCL Spring…finally! BOARD Wow—what a horribly long winter! I can only hope that, under all the dead stuff in the garden, there’s new growth. Up, down, up, down—the temperature that is. 70 Wednesday; 30 yesterday; 2014 OFFICIALS 70 again tomorrow…Let’s all hope that, by May 3rd, we’ve finally settled on, oh, about 75 degrees, President mild wind, lots of sun. We’ll be having our Neighborhood Cleanup that day and other activities. John Greene I recently returned from a vacation to portions of SE Asia. I’ll say only that it’s significantly different [email protected] from anywhere else I’ve been before and, no matter what your circumstances, I’d hazard a guess that you’re better off here in many respects. Some beautiful areas, to be sure, but so, too, is the Vice President “good, ol’ USA!” Ann Bolen I want to give a “shout out” to both Ann Bolen for our Newsletter and to Steve Van Leeuwen and [email protected] his company, Ciniva Web Agency, for their efforts keeping our Civic League “rag” and website Secretary (www.livingeov.com) looking very “21st Century-ish.” There’s lots of information—particularly with spring approaching—from monthly Calendar updates and Items of Interest online, including Ann Freeman upcoming Mayoral and Ward 5 debates and City election, Garden Committee events, Yard Sale [email protected] rules, under “EOV Events;” to available EOV Studies, Meeting Minutes, and our Newsletter, under “Resources.” If there’s something you’d like to add that would be of interest to everyone, Treasurer not just a select few, please let me or Ann Bolen, our VP and Newsletter Editor, know. Jeff Lewis [email protected] I think that’s it. Let’s see what new developments Spring brings!

DIRECTOR-AT-LARGE John Greene Willie Smith President, East Ocean View Civic League Rodney Hammonds Amanda Skupin Mayor’s OV Task Force Meeting Summary Mike Joyner On March 20, the Mayor’s office held a meeting at the Pretlow library. Attendees received updates on: Juanita Snead • Water and Sanitary Sewer project: Phase 1, Pump Station to serve EOV is 88% complete. Phase 2, new Steve Van Leeuwen water and sewer lines for Pretty Lake Ave. west of Shore Dr. connecting to Pleasant Ave. up 21st sewer lines John Hadfield from Shore Dr. to 15th Bay St. along Pleasant Ave- Planning 100% complete, still needs to be bid out and Jim Casey the plan is for construction to start in the Fall of 2014 with a completion date of Summer 2015. • Police report shows crime statistics are down • Transit Extension study presentation given. More citizen input is sought to help EOV Quarterly is published determine preferred corridors between The Tide and Naval Station Norfolk. Public urged to provide input/ by the East Ocean View preference by going to www.gohrt.com/nsntes or contacting Transit, department of Civic League planning- 757-222-6000 Send comments, applications • Ocean View Crew which is a membership program to support quality family events exclusively for Ocean and payments to: View Beach Park is looking for tax deductible donations. Email: [email protected] or go to their EOVCL website www.festevents.org Help keep Big Bands on the Bay, T.G.O.V. Beach Music Series, The Shore Thing Concert, The 4th OV Crab and Seafood Feast and Outdoor Art Show going! P.O. Box 14172 • Economic Development updated presented by Tommy Smigiel. The Dairy Queen is to be torn down on Norfolk, VA 23518 Little Creek. Starbucks, Yogurt shop and Cellphone Store looking to occupy space. Phase 7 of East Beach is underway. Working to get smaller boutique grocery store or organic grocery, yoga studio & ice cream shop. Want to place an ad? Ships Cabin is for sale. Ramada Inn/Senior Center site under contract. City purchased the Traveller’s Inn Contact Ann Bolen at: site for better beach access. This summer there will be a 3-story Hippo water slide located on Community [email protected] Beach. Vendor will also offer umbrellas and beach chairs for rent as well as coordinating Food Trucks in the 757-362-0337 parking lot. They will be providing security around the water slide and beach area from 8pm to 8am each day. Kmart on Little Creek site is for sale. Sam’s Club and Kroger are both studying this site. Costco in Norfolk will be relocating to Beach in the future as their membership is primarily from VB.

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East Ocean View Civic League Minutes Summary January, February, March 2014 In January, the Civic League Board for 2014, as voted In 2009 the zoning was changed to allow a 5-story, upon during the December meeting, was installed by over age 55 condo community, to be built on the site; Councilman Tommy Smigiel. Board members: John it was never built. Mr. Colby wants to build 6 single Greene, President; Ann Bolen, Vice President; Jeff Lewis, family homes, approx 2400-2600 square feet, and Treasurer; Ann Freeman, Secretary; Members at Large: priced around $350,000. The membership unanimously John Hadfield, Juanita Sneed, Steve Van Leeuwen, Amanda approved supporting his rezoning request. Skupin, Willie Smith, Rodney Hammonds, Jim Casey, Mike Joyner. Councilman Smigiel addressed several initiatives In March, Mr. Lee Rosenberg, Environmental Ser- that are moving forward, which are: East Beach Phase 7, vices Manager, City of Norfolk, spoke about the sand/ which includes a boutique hotel, high end seafood res- shore replenishment project that will begin March taurant, organic grocery store and a Towne Bank branch; 2015. The replenishment will begin by the Little improvements to Shoppes at East Beach; Bay Oaks Park; Creek Base and continue to Willoughby. The project improvements to Shore Drive and Little Creek Road; code is a combined project with the Federal Government enforcement on blighted properties; and the Pump Station and is being funded with money that was set aside upgrade. Tommy commented that EOV “has been studied due to Hurricane Sandy. Mr. Jim Boohaker, Director to death” and shared several results the City has learned of Development, East Beach Company spoke to the from these studies and that the EOV Steering Committee membership concerning Phase 7 of the East Beach he is a member of would be dealing with, including: the Development. The last phase of the construction Shore Drive/Little Creek trailer park that is for sale; a new is designed to be a combination of residential and floodgate under Pretty Lake Bridge; beach sand replenish- commercial units. A major change in this area is the ment project; curbs, sidewalk and drainage improvements removal of the public parking lot next to Ships Cabin. 1-22nd Bay Streets. Mr. Ed Maulbeck gave a presentation The property is owned by the East Beach Corporation about his intent to build an Indian Motorcycle dealership on and will be used for future development. The City city-owned property located on Shore Drive near the new is aware parking is going to be a problem for those Sherwin Williams Paint store. He asked for and received wishing to use the beach this summer and is working Civic League support. Last, Mr. Jorge Romero from Jessy’s on a solution. The schedule for Community Garden Tienda gave a short presentation regarding his desire to events on Pleasant Avenue was announced: Spring expand the restaurant by 40 seats by adding an outdoor Clean-Up and Planting April 26; the Strawberry Festi- seating area, and to increase his liquor license to sell val, May 31; the Watermelon Festival on July 12th. alcohol as well as beer and wine. A vote taken to support Jorge’s request to expand his seating and was passed with unanimous support by the members present. Mr. Rob Blizard, Executive Director of the Norfolk SPCA, highlighted February’s meeting. Mr. Blizard has been Ex- ecutive Director of the SPCA in this area for a year and gave a brief history of the SPCA in this area. The SPCA works with the City of Norfolk under a “fee- for-service” agreement, primarily neutering and spaying cats and dogs. They also run a “no kill” shelter, with the focus on Trap, Neuter, Release (TNR) of cats. Mr. Blizard explained there is a great need for volunteers to walk animals in the shelter and help out where needed. Mr. David Colby, a builder, made a presentation to request zoning change at 3401 East Ocean View Avenue back to R-12.

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Great News for our Beaches! Feline Medicine & Boarding* The 7.3 miles of the southern Chesapeake Bay The Cat Hospital of Tidewater extending from the tip of near the HRBT to the Federal navigation channel of the Little Creek Inlet has been identified as a 6048 E. Virginia Beach Blvd. Norfolk, VA 23502 fundable important project through Section 501 (757) 466-­‐9151 www.cathospitaloftidewater.com of the Water Resources Development Act 1986 *For boarding info,call us or visit our website. (PL 99-662), as amended. It was noted that the project that was started in the early 1990’s was never finished and the project area remains The total initial cost is estimated to be $18,300,000. vulnerable. With the support of Senators Warner The project will create a 60 foot wide beach berm, and Kaine and Representative Rigell, funding at an elevation of 5.0 feet above mean low water was identified to provide the placement of for the entire 7.3 mile shoreline. It would bring approximately 1,200,000 cubic yards of initial the beach out to the existing breakwaters along fill and the subsequent periodic nourishment the Willoughby Spit-Ocean View shoreline. It of 445,100 cubic yards of fill every nine years is anticipated construction will start as early as thereafter dredged from the Thimble Shoal calendar year 2015. Auxiliary Channel named the “designated borrow area”.

Commissioner’s Office to Target Yard Sale Violators

Last fall, Evans Poston, Norfolk Commissioner of A solution was implemented to target Friday the Revenue, was asked about repeat violations yard sales because that’s when most violators of the City’s yard sale ordinances. A meeting was seem to begin doing business. A call to 664-7892 arranged with several Civic League Presidents pointing out locations where someone seems in the City’s most affected areas. The result is a to be running a business instead of a yard sale campaign to rein in yard sale violations. is needed to help fix this problem. When you call to report a possible violation, please let Norfolk’s regulations allow citizens to hold two yard them know that you’ve made notes about what sales per year. Each yard sale requires a $5 permit you have observed and can testify if needed. issued by the Commissioner’s office. Perpetual From there, Norfolk will do their best to quickly yard sales adversely impact property values and inspect the location, assess compliance, and – if wreak havoc on a neighborhood’s peace and warranted – issue a violation notice. With citizen quiet and it’s very clearly against the law. input, Mr. Poston is hoping to solve this problem.

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Spring 2014 6 www.livingeov.com Community News More Development for OV On March 18, 2014, City Council voted to accept a contract of sale from ZP Development for the old Ramada Inn site and the OV Senior Center. There will be a public—i.e., Community, City Planning and Council—review period of 180 days, followed by an additional 180 days to close on the transaction. The $3 million dollar purchase offer includes a plan to erect approximately 250 market rate apartments and 20,000 square feet of retail space. In addition, the developer has offered to make improvements to the restrooms located on the public beach across the street. Councilman Smigiel has said there are plans in the works for a new location for the senior center. For now, it looks like it will be over a year from now before any dirt is moved.

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Senate Approves House- SHERWIN-WILLIAMS Passed Flood Insurance Bill Opens New Store on Shore Drive

On March 13, 2014, the U.S. Senate passed the With the scenic beauty of the Chesapeake Homeowner Flood Insurance Affordability Act of Bay only steps away, Ocean View is an idyllic 2013, H.R. 3370, by a vote of 72-22. This legislation location for Sherwin-Williams, the nation’s would roll back many of the rate increases that National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) policy largest specialty retailer of paint and painting holders have been charged or are expected to be supplies. Located at 7937 Shore Drive, the charged shortly. store is the go-to resource for residents of Ocean View and surrounding communities, As FEMA began to unveil the new flood maps, providing everything they need to ensure it became clear that many policyholders face their painting projects turn out great,” said substantial premium increases, prompting many Margaret Fox, store manager. “Our staff lawmakers to call for the premium increases to be offers a high level of personalized, one-on- delayed or lowered. To this end, H.R. 3370 would one service, with expert advice to help with permanently repeal most of those rate increases. In everything from color selection to choosing addition, rates would be lowered for those borrowers the right product for the job.” who purchased a home after the law passed in 2012 and faced a steep premium increase. Their The store offers Sherwin-Williams latest paint rates would first be reverted back to the subsidized products for every situation, as well as a broad rate that applied to their home before the sale, and selection of wallpaper and painting supplies. then increased gradually (no more than 18 percent per year) until the premiums reach actuarial rates. In addition, Sherwin-Williams easy-to-use color Policyholders who have already paid the increased selection tools provide both homeowners premiums would be refunded. and painting professionals with the latest technology and personal service to explore To make the bill revenue neutral and allow NFIP to and identify their perfect colors. Homeowners build up sufficient capital reserves, the legislation are invited to join Sherwin-Williams new would place a $25 surcharge on NFIP policies Preferred Customer Paint Perks program and for primary residences and a $250 surcharge on receive a coupon for $10 off any purchase premiums for commercial properties and non- of $50 or more. The store will be celebrating primary residences. The bill would also require National Painting Week beginning April 7, FEMA to issue a report within 18 months examining 2014. “Every year, in celebration of National whether flood insurance remains affordable for Painting Week, Sherwin-Williams stores reach homeowners. out to their neighborhoods to find ways to Senator Mike Lee (R-UT), plans an amendment to contribute to the greater good,” said Fox. “We H.R. 3370 that would prevent policyholders who hope to work with Ocean View residents and purchased a second and/or vacation home after Biggert-Waters was enacted from receiving refunds nonprofits to engage in these kinds of projects authorized by H.R. 3370 This will be proposed and to make a positive difference for residents and voted upon as a stand-alone bill later this Congress. the community.”

The bill will now be sent to President Obama, who is expected to sign it into law.

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Join the EOVCL Civic League Membership Application Name (1) : ______Name (2) : ______Address:______

Serving the Ocean View Community City:______Get Involved Today!Zip code:______for over 25 years! Date Resident of EOV:______Home Phone:______Come join us Sunday Work Phone:______Email:______mornings at 10am. Signature:______Membership shall be open to any resident, business owner or property owner in Planning Districts 6 & 7, the East Ocean View section of the city of Norfolk. (Note: This geographic area is that por- tion of the city bounded by the Chesapeake Bay on the north, 1st Bay Street on the west, Pretty New Life Christian Center Lake on the south eastward to the point of Thompson Road, then along Thompson Road to East Little Creek Road then eastward to the Little Creek Naval Amphibious Base.) Membership dues 3921 Pleasant Avenue shall be $10.00 per person or $15 per household per calendar year. Dues shall be due and pay- able by January 1st, or the first scheduled monthly meeting of each calendar year. Membership Norfolk, VA 23518 shall be considered lapsed if dues are not renewed by February 1st. Members whose member- 757-362-8015 www.nlccva.org ships are lapsed for a year or longer shall be presumed to have discontinued membership and any renewal after that time shall be treated as a new membership. Dues for new memberships beginning on or after July 1st shall be half of the full year membership. A member whose membership has lapsed may re-activate their membership by the payment of dues.

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Carl Cowen 8420 Highland Street Mario Echeverria 4091 Lighthouse Cove William Ewsuk 9523 17th Bay Street Every week, we are honored to be joined Roberta Farrington 4171 Mariners Point Road in East Ocean View by new families moving Margaret Gardner 4635 Pleasant Avenue, #4 here. They come from other parts of the re- Levi Goodin 9556 16th Bay Street gion, the state and often other places in the 9532 15th Bay Street country. By whatever means, and whatever Janet Hendrick encouraged them to be a part of our com- Richard Herring 9552 16th Bay Street munity, we welcome them all. We hope they Regis Lance 4175 Mariners Point Road will also chose to become a member of the Dana Lantz 8268 Captains Way East Ocean View Civic League, a group of like minded folks seeking to strengthen the Mary Law 4821 Pleasant Avenue ties that bind us and make this area an even Taylor Lyne 4011 Harbor Walk Avenue greater place to live! Robert Polk 4134 Seafarer Avenue The list of names and addresses below was Abigail Rhoden 8118 Ships Crossing Road taken from the “Homes” section of the Sat- Jorge Romero 8130 Ships Crossing Road urday edition of the Virginian-Pilot. If you’re Glenda Spiewak 4135 Seafarer Drive new and we missed your name, contact us so we can correct the error! David Teague 9529 4th Bay Street

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Adapting to Sea Level Rise John Greene

This article summarizes a presentation I attended recently by Mr. Skip Stiles, Director, Wetlands Watch. Some of the information is similar to what I wrote about last quarter; I will try not to repeat. Wetlands Watch was founded 13 years ago by former Mayor Mason Andrews. It began out of concern for and to preserve and protect projected wetlands projects.

Stiles began by saying, “The sea has risen and fallen approximately 400’ for over 400 thousand years. Today, we’re at a peak.” The sea level rise in Hampton Roads is, in fact, the Newport News shipyards to NASA at Wallops second only to New Orleans and Galveston, Island. For the beach, the impact is the loss of TX. Hampton Roads is the largest population sand: a 2.5’ rise in sea levels is a loss of 250 feet of area at risk, though. Miami, FL, has a greater shoreline. Nearly everything along the Sandbridge population, but lower rise; Galveston has a coastline is gone, as is most of the eastern shore. higher rise, but lower population. He added that, for every 2’ of rise over the next 100 years, Nearing the end, he asked rhetorically, “Will it all 50-80% of wetlands will be under water. And be okay again in 1000 years? A good question but that is independent of storm tides, such as it’s unlikely we’ll be here to know. Planning for the with Hurricane Sandy and nor’easters, though future must start now!” For our purposes, a “tide he stated they’re not higher necessarily. Many gate” has been proposed to prevent storm surge areas have been infilled—, the Opera at Pretty Lake Bridge. That’s anticipated to cost House, Chrysler Museum, e.g.—thus the flood $50M and the City of Norfolk is moving forward impact is greater. with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to secure funding. Better maps and models are needed to He said that tides will rise anywhere from predict flooding. Building designs need to take 1.5’ – 7.5’, and the impact on our region, into account rising tides (“Don’t build in a flood economically, will be significant, because zone!”) and new zoning solutions are required (“3’ $0.45 of every dollar comes from the Federal freeboard, e.g.”). Hampton Roads cities need to Government, and the region extends from work as one region, not on separate solutions.

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