Business, Housing & Zoning Committee (BHZ)
The BHZ committee works with neighborhood residents and business owners to ensure the neighborhood maintains and sustains its historic nature and remains a hospitable place to live and do business. Programs and projects include:
– Creating a neighborhood business association
– Reviewing variance requests: Click here for East Harriet Checklist for Variance Request
– Overseeing the home improvement loan program
– Creating historic housing guidelines
– Overseeing the business facade improvement grant program
How you can be involved:
CALLING ALL BUSINESS OWNERS! If you own a business in East Harriet, contact business association chairperson, Matt Perry, via email or by phone at 612-839-3320 — we've started a business association and we want you to be involved. For more information on the Nicollet-East Harriet Business Association, click here.
Join us for Business, Housing & Zoning Committee meetings if you have something you’d like to discuss or learn more about. The committee meets the 3rd Sunday of each month from 7-8pm at the SW Senior Center at 36th and Bryant. Agendas will be available ahead of each meeting if you let us know you’re interested.
Contact committee chair Bruce Thomson via email or by phone at 612-822-7871 if you have an idea for a business or housing/zoning project or would like more information about anything related to the committee.
Community Building Committee (CBC)
The community building committee creates space for neighbors to participate in and share their community with one another. We connect East Harriet residents through a web of events and information that builds relationships and community among neighbors, including:
– Neighborhood events like the kite festival, garage sale, and garden tour
– Newsletters, posters, and other printed materials
– This website: EastHarriet.org
– Block clubs for social and safety purposes
How you can be involved:
Join us for Community Building Committee meetings if you have something you’d like to discuss or learn more about. The committee meets on the second Thursday of each month at Java Jacks (46th & Bryant) at 7 pm.
Contact committee chair Pam Meier via email if you have an idea for a community building project or if you would like more information about the committee.
Parks, Environment & School Committee
The Parks, Environment & School Committee works with neighbors and the Minneapolis Park & Recreation Board on a variety of programs to ensure a sustainably healthy environment and a clean, vital, safe, and active system of parks. Programs and projects include:
– Bryant/Barton Environmental Awareness Team! (Bryant/BEAT!)
– Park Board liaison
– Environmental education
How you can be involved:
Join us for Parks, Environment & School Committee meetings if you have something you’d like to discuss or learn more about. The committee meets the 2nd Tuesday of each month from 7-8 pm at the SW Senior Center at 36th and Bryant. Agendas will be available ahead of each meeting if you let us know you’re interested.
Join the Bryant/BEAT! steering committee. Bryant B.E.A.T! (Barton Environmental Awareness Team!) - a collaboration between EHFNA, Barton Open School staff and students, and community volunteers — is an exciting new program that shows neighborhood residents how each of us can improve our community's environment. From alternative energy sources to clean water, we can all work small habits into our lives that, taken together, will greatly improve the quality of our natural resources. Bryant/BEAT! tells us what works and how we can each make a difference.
If you're interested in helping with Bryant/BEAT!, please join us for our regularly scheduled Parks, Environment & School Committee meeting on the 2nd Thursday of each month from 7-8pm at the SW Senior Center at 36th and Bryant. at the SW Senior Center at 36th and Bryant.
If you'd like more information about Bryant/BEAT's 2007-08 Clean Air Focus, contact us with questions via email or at 612-824-9350.
Contact committee chair Bruce Wadman via email or by phone at 822-1164 if you have an idea for a parks and environment project or if you would like more information about anything related to our parks or the environment.
Crime, Transportation, Safety & Noise Committee
Crime, Transportation, Safety & Noise Committee members strive to make the neighborhood a safe place for residents, businesses, and visitors to enjoy and a place where vehicular traffic and parking are balanced with the needs of bicycle and pedestrian traffic. Projects include:
– Block clubs organizing
– Safe bikeway creation and maintenance
– Bus route support and promotion
– Crime monitoring
How you can be involved:
Join us for Transportation, Noise, Crime & Safety Committee meetings if you have something you’d like to discuss or learn more about. The committee meets the 3rd Monday of each month from 7-8pm at Java Jack's at 46th and Bryant. Agendas will be available ahead of each meeting if you let us know you’re interested.
Click here to send a blank email that automatically signs you up to receive regular email updates from your 5th precinct Community Crime Prevention Specialist, Tom Thompson.
Contact committee chair Chris Gallaty via email or by phone at 612-867-5572 if you have a community safety concern or would like more information about anything related to this committee.