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Please join us for the March APNA Meeting. There are a number of topics that will be important to all residents.
We’ll have presentations on ParkWise and related parking issues, a discussion about the new overlays the city is attempting to implement that may affect everyone in historic districts, and a discussion of APNA’s Feral Cat Policy.

The meeting starts at 7:00 pm . The agenda is attached: APNA Agenda 3-13-12

Please join us for the first regular board meeting of the association, February 14, 2012 at St. Andrew’s Parish Hall, 545 S. 5th Ave.
The agenda is attachedAPNA Agenda 2-14-12

Dear Friends and Neighbors:

I’m writing this, as Tucson and the state celebrate Arizona’s Centennial. Happy Anniversary, and lets work to make the next hundred years even better for all of us. Continue reading “Greetings for 2012!”

It’s that time of year again:  the annual membership meeting of Armory Park Neighborhood Association will be November 8 at 7 pm at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church. Key agenda items include election of new board members and officers,  election of new members to the Historic Zone Advisory Board,  and discussion of financial support for Neighbors Feeding Neighbors. Full agenda below and available for download (PDF, 1 page). Continue reading “APNA Annual Meeting November 8”

The next meeting of the APNA board will be Tuesday, October 11 at 7 pm at St. Andrews church.  Continue reading “APNA Board Meeting October 11”

With the Home Tour coming up, it’s a good time to clean up our neighborhood. Continue reading “Join in the Neighborhood Clean-up in October”

by Betts* Putnam-Hidalgo
Neighbors, the Home Tour is coming up and it’s a good time to clean up our neighborhood. As the weather cools off, its nice to walk again, but some plants are starting to get a little shaggy in some areas, and some sidewalks are shrinking to remarkably thin tiptoe spaces!  For safety and easy passage,  it’s a good idea to prune back low-hanging tree branches and  shrubs that are encroaching on the sidewalk. Continue reading “Pruning Tips”

If you have ever attended the Armory Park Home Tour, you know that it’s a chance to explore our neighborhood’s most colorful treasures.  The annual fund raising event highlights the thoughtful preservation and renovation of historic homes alongside the contextual architecture of newer homes, many of which boast green amenities such as solar power and water harvesting.  And if you walk or ride your bike through the Tour, you get to enjoy some local whimsy along the way, the small details and expressions of neighborhood character that I like to consider the Home Tour “sideshow”: street art, murals, creative landscaping, quirky paint jobs, and yard signs promoting everything from humanitarian and political causes to modern cottage industries.

Armory Park is a true historic neighborhood, distinguished by buildings and streetscapes that confirm the continuity of the past – when the Armory was an armory, and building materials were scarce – with the present and future.  Those of us who seek out a place like Armory Park to live, whether we own or rent our homes, are inspired to preserve and build on what we already have: a neighborhood that is at once lively and peaceful, walkable and livable.  One Sunday afternoon each fall, the Home Tour offers a chance to slow down, meet one another and take a deeper look at our surroundings.

For those with an eye for gardening and plants, a Home Tour in Armory Park often reveals some really lovely yards and gardens, where we imagine people spending their time relaxing or playing.  Some of the urban oases in Armory Park have taken decades to mature.  Some happened by accident.  Many are inherited, as remnants of the original gardens on historic properties that date back to before we were born.

Aside from weeds and the occasional pest, what’s not to love about gardening?  Continue reading “Armory Park: Time for a Community Garden”