Neighborhood Info

Neighborhood Message Board

Visit the neighborhood Message Board at Groups.io. Find out how to join here.

Welcome Packets

Get a Story Welcome Packet and be listed in our neighborhood address book.

Are you new to the neighborhood? Or just dropped off the radar? Add your name to the neighborhood address book. It's a handy way for neighbors to stay in contact and is only available to residents of Story. Contact the Welcome Subcommittee.

Property Tax Reduction Program

One of the benefits of living in a historic district is the property tax reduction. Learn more here. 

Bulk Trash Pickup

A new, appointment-based collection system for bulk trash items replaced the current quarterly collection program on September 30, 2024. Due to the outspoken voices in the neighborhood, the new process to move the pickup location from the alley to curbside was overturned, keeping pickup in the alleys.

To schedule a bulk trash collection click to learn more.

Report illegal dumping by calling:
     - Police Department at 9-1-1 (emergencies)​
     - Crime Stop at 602-262-6151 (non-emergencies)
​​     - Otherwise, contact Public Works at 602-262-6251.

1330 West Willetta Street

June Visual Award

It took Alexis Lowell exactly one day to find the house she wanted to make her home when she moved from Seattle three years ago. The 1930s-era Tudor charmed her and she charmed the seller with a heartfelt letter lauding the house’s historic heritage and promising to protect it.

It worked, and Alexis, with her two sons in tow, got to work. She added an awning over the prominent front window to soften the home’s angular look. Curving brick planters around the front porch got a punch of color when she added bougainvillea, again striving to soften the home’s appearance.

She went big on trees: She planted three Chilean mesquites on the east side of her home and added a lemon tree on the west. The lemon tree is a nod to the home’s history, as a neighbor told her a previous owner had grown lemons.

In another nod to history, Alexis installed a driveway gate, but with a design that allows a sight line to the mesquites and backyard beyond. After, all she figured, there probably wasn’t a gate back in the ‘30s when garages were in the back of the house.
Stroll by the home at 1330 W. Willetta to get a look at this month’s Visual Award winner.

Six Points Hardware is the sponsor of the F.Q. Story Visual Award. The monthly winners get a $100 gift certificate to the store, which sits at the western edge of our neighborhood.

The Story steering committee welcomes nominations for the monthly Visual Award, which recognizes the efforts of residents to improve the look of their home’s exterior or for their work in maintaining it. Send nominations to Diego Delgadillo at 738-0669 or e-mail to (diego3@cox.net) or Mary Jo Pitzl at 495-9202 or e-mail to (mary-jpitzl@cox.net).