Dear Old Town Civic Association Member:

It’s time to renew your 2011-2012 Old Town Civic Association membership. Your dues pay for the necessities of running an association: meeting rooms; correspondence, mailings, and so forth. Only with your financial support can we continue to be the recognized and respected voice for the Old Town residential community.

Membership dues are $25 per household and run from September to September each year. Tickets for the traditional Cherry Blossom Party are in addition to membership dues and will be sent out shortly. So please mark your calendars now for our 60th anniversary to be held on Sunday, September 25th and come aboard the Cherry Blossom to celebrate and socialize with your neighbors!

As you know, this has been a very active year for OTCA – with many of our efforts focused on working with the City through the Waterfront Planning process. The OTCA Board has taken a constructive approach to modifying the plan and mitigating negative impacts as identified by those of you who responded to our October 2010 survey and voiced your concerns at meetings. Some of the changes in the plan we’ve been successful in obtaining include:

Making the City staff understand that proven parking and traffic mitigation programs must be in place before development occurs is central to any rational implementation strategy.

We have some way to go, and have been working closely with the Mayor’s Waterfront Work Group through the summer as the only association represented. The mission of the Work Group is: (a) to identify elements of the Waterfront Small Area Plan for which there is agreement; (b) to clarify and define the positions on major outstanding issues; and (c) to identify opportunities to narrow areas of differences. Board member David Olinger, the OTCA representative on the Work Group, will be advocating for the modifications that you, our members, have indicated that you wish to see including more open space and the promotion of Old Town’s cultural amenities and history.

Beginning with our next membership year,  you’ll start to see some changes. Starting with the September 2011 edition of the OTCA newsletter, The Old Town Crier, we are making a concerted effort to send it out to as many of you as possible via email in order to save printing and postage. However, if you have no access to email, we will  continue to send the Crier out via mail if you check the box in the membership form and return it to us with your dues.

Please fill out the membership form below, with any names of additional household members you wish to include, and mail it, together with your check made out to: OTCA, P.O. Box 1213 Alexandria, VA 22313.  Renewing your membership in OTCA will help ensure that your interests in the community are represented and that the unique urban lifestyle that is Old Town is nurtured and protected.

                                                   Membership Renewal Form

OLD TOWN CIVIC ASSOCIATION