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Next CTM Board Meeting.

The next regular meeting will be on January 9th at 7PM at the Clifton Recreation Center.

New Trustees

CTM is pleased to announce that the following candidates have agreed to run for open trustee positions:

Linda Ash
Linda and her husband have been residents of Clifton for seven years. She has one daughter (looking for her first job as a pediatric audiologist) and three step-children attending college – two in graduate school and one at Cincinnati State.  Linda was born and raised in Canada, further educated in the US, has lived in Argentina and Iran and been lucky enough to travel extensively with family and friends. Linda has practiced law in Cincinnati for the last 20 years, specializing in employment-based immigration.  She has been a member of the Clifton Main Street Cooperative and served on the Friendship United Methodist Church Administrative Board and Parish Relations Committee.  She is currently a member of the Cincinnati Bar Association Grievance Committee. Linda is interested in becoming more active to keep Clifton a vibrant, diverse and safe community in which to live, work and enjoy leisure time.

Bruce Bernard
Bruce Bernard seeks to join CTM to further foster the exciting urban/semi-urban environment that Clifton is, work towards a community that is ecologically friendly and economically viable and promotes diversity and reaches out to surrounding neighborhoods.   A 23-year resident of Clifton and a physician employed at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Bernard and his wife, Dr. Margaret Atterbury, raised three daughters, watching them achieve great success through Cincinnati Public Schools and a multitude of activities that Clifton offered them growing up.  A former CTM Trustee in the 1990’s, Bernard headed successful playground initiatives in Burnet Woods and Clifton School, as well as the Burnet Woods Frisbee golf, and later co-chaired the “Light-up Clifton” campaign.  He is very excited to join such an active and forward looking group of Trustees!

Brian Curwin
Brian Curwin has been a Clifton resident ever since he moved from Ottawa, Canada to Cincinnati in 2000.  He and his wife chose Clifton because of its eclectic and walkable nature.  In 2009, Brian decided to give back to Clifton by serving as a trustee on CTM.  His first three year term has come to an end, but he would like to continue to serve on CTM for a second three year term.  CTM serves a vital role in the Clifton community and Brian feels it is important to contribute to the success of CTM and Clifton by staying involved.  Brian brings a wealth of experience to the board as a scientist and administrator and wants to ensure that Clifton remains the great neighborhood that he now calls home.

Buddy Goose
Buddy Goose has lived in Clifton for just over five years, after spending the majority of his adult life in the Cincinnati suburbs of Loveland, Mason, and Sharonville.  He finds the lifestyle of Clifton much more attuned to his community values; Clifton being a place where neighbors meet each other in the local places that provide local service, necessities and entertainment.  He enjoys the entertainment aspects of Clifton, maybe a bit too much if his increased waist-line is an accurate measure.
Buddy is an avid gardener.  During his time in Clifton he has been active in converting the public parcels at the bottom of Glenmary and Vine from eyesores into the City Barn Community Garden and beautifully landscaped gardens at the bottom of Glenmary and Ruther.  Much of his activity was simply hard labor, but he also contributed to making the small organizing committee successful.  His success involved working with a plethora of civic and government organizations and facilitating key decisions.  He was also involved in the recent Ludlow Plaza garden improvements.
Besides his garden contributions, Buddy and his wife have been very active in forming a strong social core in their quadrant of Clifton (homes north and east of Ludlow and Clifton).  For four Spring/Summer/Fall seasons, they have organized monthly gatherings at various homes in this neighborhood.  Besides increasing the social quotient, the gatherings have facilitated communications about crime activity, increased reporting to the police, and most likely have improved deterrence. Buddy wants to bring Clifton out of its past and the community to its full potential, incorporating and taking advantage of the shifts in the demographics of the region.  He embraces many of the recent changes in the retail landscape on Ludlow and environs.  He wants to work within the codes of the City and the Clifton community towards full retail occupancy of the licensed retail properties from Jefferson/Nixon to lower Ludlow.

Tom Dwyer
Tom Dwyer has been a Cincinnati resident for nearly 20 years and has lived in Clifton for over four years.  He currently lives on Greendale Avenue with his wife Sharon and two children, Anne and Tommy, both of whom attend Clifton- Fairview German Language School.  He has a business degree from Ohio State University, an MBA from Miami University and is a Certified Public Accountant.  Tom is currently employed by Fifth Third Bank in the Commercial Equipment Finance group.  He has been active in the community as a soccer and baseball coach.

Michael Moran
Michael Moran is a native Cincinnatian who lived in Western Hills, Mount Adams and Oakley before moving to Oxford Terrace in Clifton almost six years ago.  He studied finance and accounting at the University of Kentucky and works as a commercial real estate broker.  He’s married to Abby Moran and they have two children, Will and Maisie, ages five and three.  Mike loves living in Clifton and wants to get more involved in the neighborhood.

Clifton House Tour Planning to Begin for 2012

Volunteers are needed to start the planning for the 2012 CLfiton House tour. Please send a note to ContactCTM@cliftoncommunity.org if you are willing to help.

Walter E. Langsam has prepared a complete description of each house on the 2009 House tour. It includes architectural descriptions of the houses: the overall Clifton development, the houses in their context, the owners and their families and interconnections, and up-to-date biographies of the architects particularized for their Clifton works.Click here to view the summary.

Form Based Codes

CTM continues to work with the City of Cincinnati to develop a better understanding of Form-Based Codes and how they could/would apply to Clifton.

On October 2nd, CTM representatives attended a Form-Based Code Neighborhood Meeting with Dan Parolek from Opticos. Reports, documentation, and presentations prepared by Opticos as part of the study were passed around during the meeting. These materials, and links to additional Form-Based Code resources and codes adopted throughout the country are now available on the web at the following location:

http://www.cincinnati-oh.gov/bldginsp/pages/-40282-/

Please stay tuned for additional updates and let me know if you have any questions.

Valerie Daley | City Planner

New CTM Committees and Liaisons Announced

In an effort to focus the efforts of CTM’s trustees and member volunteers, we have altered the structure of the organization’s key committees. 

Given today’s community needs we propose 5 standing committees that are responsible for conducting the necessary work of the organization.  In addition, each committee will focus its efforts on achieving 1 goal for 2010. Each trustee will serve on at least one of the standing committees.           

• Executive Committee
• Events Committee
• Communication, Membership, & Marketing Committee
• Housing & Zoning Committee
• Beautification Committee

In addition, each year the CTM Board will identify a limited number of ad hoc committees tasked with achieving specific, high-priority goals. These committees will be limited in order to focus the limited time and energy resources of the trustees and the general CTM membership.  This year’s recommended ad hoc committees are:     

• Clifton Plaza Construction Committee
• Green Clifton Committee

The activities and progress of these committees will be reported on the Clifton Town Meeting tab on this web site. For more information, click here

Clifton Cultural Arts Center

It's shaping up to be an exciting fall at CCAC. Check out the CCAC website for more information on fall programming at Clifton Cultural Arts Center.

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Uptown Consortium

Clifton works cooperatively with the Uptown Consortium. For more information see the Uptown Cincinnati web pages.