Ridgway Historic Neighborhood Association

01/08/2022

The rainbow ends at Ridgway Historic Neighborhood!

08/17/2021

From Santa Rosa Mayor Chris Rogers

What is this new striping on Ridgway Ave? It’s potentially going to be Sonoma County’s first class IV cycle track protected bike path. This design would create a protected bike path between parked cars and the sidewalk. Bicyclists wouldn’t have to worry about cars backing away from the parking spots into the road and into their path. No traffic lanes or parking spaces will be eliminated, though the traffic lanes would be slimmed (from 22 ft and 14 ft wide to 11 ft in both directions).

Staff is collecting input from the public on the proposal until August 21st.

This new design is intended to:

- Implement protected lanes, as is called out in the City’s Bicycle and Pedestrian master plan
- Shorten pedestrian crossing distances along the street
- Slow the road speed on Ridgway Ave in front of the high school

To register comments, reach out to Mike Vanmidde, Associate Traffic Engineer, at [email protected] or calling 707-543-3819

08/11/2021

The City of Santa Rosa has plans to alter the layout of Ridgway Avenue. If you would like to provide feedback on the design and also be invited to attend a Zoom meeting on the project, please contact Mike Vanmidde, Associate Traffic Engineer – [email protected]

07/26/2021

MESSAGE FROM THE CITY OF SANTA ROSA REGARDING ALTERNATE PARKING DURING THE SLURRY SEAL PROJECT
Supervising engineer Grant Bailey has arranged for Ridgeway neighbors to use Santa Rosa High School’s student parking lot while our streets are being repaired. The SRHS parking lot will be opened at 8 a.m. on Monday. Neighbors should have time to move their cars to the parking lot before crews set hard closures of affected streets.
“The facilities manager at Santa Rosa School District returned my call and left a voicemail stating they will open Santa Rosa High School’s parking lot Monday morning for the residents of the Ridgeway district to use during the slurry seal project in your neighborhood. Please note, the parking lot will be open until the evening of Thursday July 29, 2021 and I suggest all vehicles be removed from the parking lot before 4:00 pm on that day. Additionally, Ridgeway is scheduled to be slurried on Tuesday July 27, 2021 and access to the parking lot may be restricted due to work activities – please plan accordingly if you are going to use this lot."

07/17/2021

The Ridgway Historic Neighborhood Association is looking for new Board members! If you would like to join the board, please email [email protected]

06/12/2021

Join us for an Independence Day celebration on July 4 from 3pm to 8pm in the Denton Way cul-de-sac. Bring a dish to share and enjoy some fun with your neighbors! Questions? Reach out to Ed and Rhonda Henicle. 🇺🇸🎆

08/19/2020

Michelle Marques here, your Communications Coordinator. The fires to the west of us are prompting evacuations. They are not impacting our neighborhood. (We are in Zone 3 for future reference.)

If you are trying to figure out which zones are under evacuation orders, here are the maps referenced in the recent Nixle alerts:

http://nixle.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/pub_media/user63422-1597800299-media1

And

http://nixle.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/pub_media/user63422-1597803024-media1

As of 9:05pm on Tuesday, August 18, there are mandatory evacuation orders for the following zones:

1B3

Entire area Zone 1D (1D1, 1D2, 1D3, 1D4, 1D5)

2E1, 2E2, 2E3 and 2E4

There are warning evacuations in place for zone 1C2

Please consider these evacuation orders to remain in place until told otherwise by the sheriff's department.

Stay safe! It's always a good idea to have your go-bag ready. And be sure to subscribe to Nixle alerts by texting your zip code to 888777.

08/06/2020

The County of Sonoma is considering the purchase of Hotel Azura as part of California's Project Homekey to help house the homeless vulnerable to COVID-19. You can attend a virtual meeting about this plan on Friday, August 7 at 5:30pm Pacific. Here is the link for the Zoom meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0vcuqhrj0jG9fgsosrTxyarWUZUmbM9vCs

You can also learn more about Project Homekey by clicking here: http://sonomacounty.ca.gov/CDC/Homeless-Services/Project-Homekey/

07/13/2020

If you are seeing and smelling smoke right now, there is a vegetation fire to the southwest of our neighborhood.

Santa Rosa firefighters are at the scene of a 2nd alarm vegetation fire in the 2000 block of Stony Point Road and in the area of Muledeer Lane

155pm The fire spread has been stopped.

228pm Veg Fire - Stony Point / Muledeer Ln is under control. Drift smoke spreading north in Santa Rosa.

Photo courtesy of Santa Rosa fire department