Neighborhood Info

Neighborhood Message Board

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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.

712 W Portland Ave

March Visual Award

It was an old house in the desert, but it just didn't feel right. The gray color on the exterior of the English Cottage Revival home Amber Jelsma bought with her husband, Neal, didn't feel desert-y. Plus, it downplayed one of the home's most eye-catching attributes: stained glass panels atop the front-facing windows.

But thanks to some help from Dunn Edwards paint and research on historic homes, they found the right color: a soft green called Desert Sage. It was appropriate, given the low-water use plantings that flanked the front of the house.

Taking a cue from that, the couple repainted the window frames, using a three-color scheme to make the windows pop and to highlight the stained glass panels which depict the sun, moon and palm trees.

There's now a new project for them to tackle: nailing down the age of their home. All the information Amber said she's received indicates it was built in 1936. But a survey done by the Arizona Historical Society puts it at 1926, making this home in the oldest section of F. Q. Story a century old.

Whether 90 or 100 years old, this house has earned the Visual Award for March. Check it out at 712 W. Portland.

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).