Silver Hill residents and other community members including representatives from the University Heights Association met on Tuesday November 10th at the Heights Community Center, to discuss a proposal put forward by City Councilor Ike Benton for a bicycle crossing where the Silver Avenue Bicycle Boulevard meets University Blvd.

Although this area is not within the UHA boundaries, representatives from the UHA and other nearby neighborhood associations were also invited to attend, as the Silver B...
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Both UHA residents and the UHA board have all agreed for quite a while now that the University Heights Association needed its own website to keep members of the community up to date with happenings in the neighborhood, as well as provide a clearing house of information for new residents who often have questions when they first move to the UHA.

However, a website is only as good as the information on it, and to for that reason we have spent quite a while looking for a site tool that will let th...
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The UHA was featured in a recent story about vehicle break-ins on KOAT TV, so we wanted to provide some additional information. The UHA board takes crime issues in the neighborhood very seriously, and endeavors to work with APD as much as possible to ensure that police respond appropriately to any crime issues in the neighborhood, and keep the UHA a safe and pleasant place for all of us.

Representatives from the UHA Board and other neighborhood associations met with APD officers at a recent ...
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Preview the landscape plan for the Lead and Coal Improvements Project here.  Click the image link below for a PDF document.

Please note these drawings are current as of April 2009.

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Mayor Chavez announced on August 13 and the City Council approved on August 17 an agreement with the Richardson administration and State Department of Transportation to use $25 million of federal stimulus funds, and an additional $7 million of city funds, for Lead Coal redesign. $4 million of the city funds must be approved by voters as part of the bond issue on the October 6 ballot. The funding will allow: 1) construction of the entire corridor, from Washington to Broadway, as one project (a...
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