Community Input
Visioning Exercise
Group One:
- Pride/clean neighborhood
- Leadership for other communities
- Elementary School
- Safe/diverse community
- Increase quality of amenities/restaurants/shopping
- Broader involvement of the Woodhaven community
Group Two:
- Recreation for children in apartments/specialized zoning
- Responsible apartment ownership and reinvestment
- Better transportation planning - busses and highway access
- Redevelopment of apartments/condos - more ownership in multi-family
- Better focus on education industry
- Better mix and quality of retail
- Better lighted mixed use town square - pleasant, safe, and walkable
Group Three:
- Walkable streets
- Establish good reputation
- New quality housing
- Attract new businesses
- Quality schools/programs/YMCA
- Community park
Group Four:
- Optimum density
- Be a destination known for something
- Safe, clean, green
- Sustainable
- Good infrastructure
- Stable, diverse population
Five Bold Steps
Group One:
- Reduce apartment density on Boca Raton
- Redevelop Fairway Estates as a gated community
- Implement the Plan
- Require apartments with excessive crime to have on-site management and security
- Public relations - improve public perception
Group Two:
- 85% homeownership
- Reduce number of apartment units
- Mixed-income guidelines
- Town square/central park
- Create a TIF - intensify incentives for development
- High-end retail anchor
Group Three:
- Increase Police protection
- Redevelop apartments
- Steps to restore good image of neighborhood
- Agressive program to address crime in the apartments
- Build recreation/community center and park
Group Four:
- Crime free multi-family program
- Reintroduce appropriate commercial
- Listen to community/action/implementation/feedback
- Find our allies and enlist them
- "Prime the pump" - know the market
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