2024-2025: TCNA Board and Activities

July 2024 through June 2025, Officers
  • President: Pat Hawthorne (Gardens of Guilford, Stony Run Lane), Calvert Covenant Renewal Workgroup, Chair Membership Committee,  Member, Greens Committee
  • Vice President: Garth Thompson  (Ridgemede Road), Public Safety Committee, Chair, Events
  • Past President: Julia Frazier (Canterbury Road), Calvert Covenant Renewal Workgroup
  • Treasurer: Bill Bass (Cloverhill Road)
  • Secretary: Bonnie Boland (The Colonnade, Canterbury Road), Member Greens Committee

Board Members:

  • Jack Boyson (Tuscany/Lombardy)
  • Josh Cohen (Cloverhill Road), Events
  • Linda Eberhart (Tuscany Road), Newsletter Coordinator
  • Brandon Ellertson (Cloverhill Road), Chair Streets Committee
  • Eric Elton (Cloverhill Road), Greens Committee, Co-chair, Calvert Covenant Renewal Workgroup
  • Nancy Lee LaMotte (Ridgemede/Ridgewood Condo, Ridgemede Rd), Residential Permit Parking Coordinator, Membership Committee, Calvert Covenant Renewal Workgroup
  • Maureen LaPorta (Ridgemede Road), Neighborhood Restaurant Liaison, Events
  • Rosalyn Mansouri (Winthrop House, Charles Street), Membership Committee
  • Amy Mutch (Tuscany Road), Calvert Liaison Committee Chair, Calvert Covenant Renewal Workgroup
  • Jo-Ann Orlinsky (St. James Condo, Charles Street), Membership Committee
  • John Warshawsky, (St. James Condo, Charles Street),  Public Safety Committee
  • Julie Watson (Canterbury Road), Webmaster

Neighborhood Committees and Workgroups 

Please contact any of the committees via our emails to volunteer or to offer ideas and thoughts click here.

 

2024-2025 Calvert Covenant Renewal Workgroup
This committee meets with the Calvert School Headmaster to discuss the possible renewal of the TCNA and Calvert School Covenants which will expire in 2026.
Mike Travieso, Chair, (Tuscany/Lombardy)
Members, Pat Hawthorne (Gardens of Guilford) , Julia Frazier (Canterbury Road), Nancy Lee LaMotte (Ridgemede Ridgewood Condo), Eric Elton (Cloverhill Road), Amy Mutch (Tuscany Road), Arna Margolis (Tuscany/Lombardy),  Nick Kouwenhoven (Tuscany Road), Fred Lazarus (Ridgemede Road),  Ferd Latrobe (Canterbury Road)

 

2024-2025 Calvert School Liaison Committee
This committee meets with the Calvert School Headmaster four times yearly to discuss neighborhood issues. Covenants are in place that determine the required membership of this committee.  Committee reports are included in the TCNA newsletter.
Amy Mutch, Chair. Committee members: Ferd Latrobe (Canterbury Rd), Ned Lewison (Gardens of Guilford), Arna Margolis (Tuscany/Lombardy), Nick Kouwenhoven (Tuscany Road).

 

2024-2025 Communications Committee
The Communications Committee sends out email newsletters 6 times a year in addition to neighborhood updates as needed.  The TCNA website is updated on a regular basis throughout the year.
Members: Linda Eberhart, Newsletter Coordinator,  Julie Watson, Webmaster, John Robinson, Photographer
Other Committee Members, Ann Finkbeiner, Nancy Lee LaMotte, Maureen LaPorta, Julia Frazier, and other board members who provide committee reports on a regular basis

 

2024-2025 Events
TCNA sponsors an annual picnic for all neighbors, organizes the First Friday Happy Hours (which hopefully will begin again soon) and organizes socials at the membership meetings (wine, cheese, desserts).
Committee Members: Josh Cohen, Maureen LaPorta, Garth Thompson, Pat Hawthorne

 

2024-2025 Greens Committee
This active committee maintains TCNA’s 4 neighborhood gardens.   The committee also works closely with Friends of Stony Run to maintain and improve the TCNA area of Stony Run Walking Path.
Eric Elton & Patrick Mutch, Co-Chairs,
Friends of Stony Run Board Member, Eric Elton. Members:  Pat Hawthorne, Bonnie Boland

 

2024-2025 Membership Committee
The membership committee hosts socials after the membership meetings and develops ways to welcome new residents in the area.  More recently the membership committee has been liaising with the neighborhood condominium associations to increase membership and interactions. The Committee sends out dues notices and invitations to new residents and non-members to become members.

TCNA Accomplishments

2024-2025

Special thanks to everyone who made all of this happen.
  • Partnered with the owners of the Broadview Apartments to complete the traffic-calming plan for 39th Street.
  • Helped organize volunteers to design and plant plants and shrubs in tubs/planters on 39th Street.
  • Held a thank-you reception with the Broadview at Cypriana Restaurant to celebrate the completion of the traffic-calming plan
  • Maintained and improved our 4 public gardens and green spaces.
  • Arranged with the city Forestry Division, Department of Recreation and Parks, for 8 new trees to be planted on Cloverhill Road, 39th Street and Tuscany Road to replace trees that died or were damaged.
  • Initiated a request with DOT to conduct a traffic survey on Tuscany Road and later expanded to include the intersection of Tuscany, Canterbury and Highfield Roads.  Engaged Councilwoman Odette Ramos to facilitate an initial meeting that was held on June 3rd with representatives from TCNA, DOT, Councilwoman Ramos’s office and Calvert School.
  • Monitored traffic along Tuscany Road during school morning drop-off and afternoon pick-up and reported issues to Calvert School via the TCNA-Calvert Liaison Committee.  With the school, implemented several changes to reduce traffic congestion.
  • Requested support from Delegate Elizabeth Embry to get final sign-off from the Assistant States Attorney’s Office for the Linkwood Road project.  Start date: TBD but soon.
  • Held an open community meeting to discuss traffic safety issues in the neighborhood that will be included in a master traffic safety plan.
  • Surveyed RPP residents in T-C to determine interest in participating in the new electronic system for permitted parking or remaining with the paper system.  The survey results indicated a desire to remain with the paper system through June of 2026.
  • Negotiated agreements with Gardens of Guilford, Ridgemede/Ridgewood, and Tuscany-Lombardy authorizing TCNA to negotiate and execute a new agreement with Calvert School to replace the existing Agreement of Restrictive Covenants, which are scheduled to expire June 21, 2026.  With members of the Calvert Covenant Renewal Work Group, drafted an agreement which was discussed with Calvert School at a meeting in May and subsequently updated.
  • Negotiated an extended 2-year agreement with Calvert School allowing them to rent out their athletic center to outside independent schools during squash season.
  • Reported 8 street light outages and monitored repair/replacement street lights throughout the neighborhood.
  • Reported issues with trash, loud music and abandoned cars on the Tuscan Hills property (west side of Linkwood Road) to DPW and Councilwoman Ramos’s office and will continue to monitor as the owners, Chasen Properties, have now filed for bankruptcy.
  • Worked closely with JHU to keep neighborhood informed about current and new projects near or in Tuscany-Canterbury.
  • Sent out 6 full newsletters and 23 special notices and alerts to our mailing list of 758 with an average of 75% neighbors opening the emails.
  • Received 25 (as of 5/31) New individual/family members this year.  For the first time in years, the five high-rise condos on Charles Street and Canterbury Road are dues-paying members at the institution level.
  • Resumed First Fridays (now called Meetups) at the Ambassador in February (est. 70+ attended).
  • Increased information on the TCNA website with 217 pages including 10 current photo galleries.
  • Supported the 6 neighborhood restaurants including the Hopkins Market opening by providing information in the TCNA newsletter and on our website.

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