GOAL HE-1: Housing and Neighborhoods

Livable and affordable neighborhoods with healthy and safehousing conditions, community services, well-maintained infrastructure, and public facilities that inspire neighborhood pride and ownership.

  • Policy HE-1.1
    Housing Conditions
    Support the rehabilitation, repair, and improvement of single-family, multiple-family, and mobile homes.
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  • Policy HE-1.2
    Neighborhood Involvement
    Encourage active and informed participation in neighborhood organizations to help identify needs and implement programs aimed at the beautification, improvement, and preservation of neighborhoods.
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  • Policy HE-1.3
    Complete Neighborhoods
    Improve neighborhood quality by locating or providing access to complementary services and public facilities, including the integration of community gardens and access to healthy food options in neighborhoods.
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  • Policy HE-1.4
    Healthy Neighborhoods
    Create and maintain parks and open spaces; plant trees, green parkways and medians; support healthy food options, and maintain a continuous pattern of pathways that encourage an active and healthy lifestyle.
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  • Policy HE-1.5
    Infrastructure and Public Services
    Provide quality community facilities, physical infrastructure, traffic management and parking control, and other public services to promote the livability, safety, and vitality of neighborhoods.
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  • Policy HE-1.6
    Proactive Code Enforcement
    Enforce building and property maintenance standards by proactively conducting property inspections, educating landlords and tenants, and removing blighted, unhealthy, or dangerous housing conditions while ensuring low-income residents are not criminalized.
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  • Policy HE-1.7
    Historic Preservation
    Support preservation and enhancement of residential structures, properties, street designs, lot patterns, and other visible reminders of neighborhoods that are considered local historic or cultural resources.
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  • Policy HE-1.8
    Public Safety
    Support efforts to improve neighborhood safety through environmental design, housing maintenance, rent stabilization, community-oriented policing, youth diversion activities, traffic safety, and other violence prevention measures.
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  • Policy HE-1.9
    Tenant Protections
    Provide information and resources to residential tenants regarding landlord-tenant laws that provide protection against unjust evictions, and State and local rent increase limits.
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  • Policy HE-1.10
    Parking Management
    Support innovative and creative strategies that proactively minimize parking impacts and deficiencies within residential neighborhoods, including parking management requirements, installation of parking lifts, and incentives for active transportation.
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  • Policy HE-1.11
    Community Ownership Opportunities
    Explore a right-of-first-refusal ordinance that would give a nonprofit housing organization the right of first refusal to purchase mobile home parks and publicly supported multifamily residential properties on the market to prevent tenant displacement, promote homeownership opportunities, and create long-term affordability.
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