Is it too late to say Happy New Year? Since we are still witnessing days of transition, I think not. Just as we look for new developments in our City and in the nation’s Capital, we can expect some changes along the Shore Drive Corridor.

Fortunately, much of the good will remain. Todd Solomon stays on as our fearless leader in the quest to protect Pleasure House Point, as well as the media spokesperson for SDCC. He will continue to be ably assisted by Tim Solanic, who also works tirelessly as our Information Officer. Leslie Cornwell has agreed to serve once more as Treasurer. I certainly do not possess the skills and abilities that they embody.

I hope that I will be able to offer a bit of improvement in the area of communication between ourselves, the residents of the Shore Drive neighborhoods, and City leaders and City Staff. I will be supported by and will support the Bayfront Advisory Committee in achieving this goal. Each party to this process of information-sharing has a unique and necessary function.

Kal Kassir, Chairman of the Bayfront Advisory Committee, and I have had preliminary conversations regarding how best to go about this. Fellow Officers of SDCC have provided me with invaluable guidance, since they know the context and contacts to be addressed. We have a wonderful opportunity, in the midst of these trying economic times, to explore new opportunities. Your ideas are solicited and welcomed as we go forward.

We are presently galvanized by the renewed focus on Pleasure House Point. Many of you are passionate about this issue. Like Americans across the country, you are now called to offer your service in this matter, and also other matters, great and small, which affect our daily lives here in our little stretch of Virginia Beach.

Join an SDCC committee:
  * Events (Town Hall, Oyster Roast)
  * Membership/Ambassador
  * Shore Drive Safety and Improvement Projects
  * Planning and Development Issue
  * Pleasure House Point (Indigo Dunes)
  * Communications

Join the SDCC contact list:

Provide us your name, email and phone number for our contact list. Contact list members will be asked to attend hearings or send emails in support or opposition to Shore Drive issues (Planning Commission, Wetlands, Zoning, City Council). Speaking at hearings is not required, willing bodies are needed as a display of force.

If all of you reading this could offer just one hour per month, we could raise an army!

Won’t you please sign up at: http://www.sdcc.info/ee/index.php/site/contact/ or email me at grace@sdcc.info [Editor:email address fixed!] to let us know which of your talents you are willing to share?

Thanks for being a part of this wonderful, vital community.

Sincerely,
Grace Moran

President, Shore Drive Community Coalition