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are various reasons for local communities to document and assess
the extent and quality of their neighborhoods. First and foremost,
such planning activities are useful for documenting and assessing
a community's ability to provide its residents with a safe, healthy
environment in which to live. Documentation of the neighborhood
environment is used to assess whether it promotes the well-being,
safety and security of its occupants, including its residents and
their visitors, businesses and their customers, and the passerby's
within the larger community. Such an effort requires an analysis
of the environment documenting the range of housing alternative,
available economic opportunities, and, to the extent feasible, the
social, cultural, educational and recreational activities present
and/or that need to be fostered or pursued.
Secondly, such documentation
enables political subdivisions to critically evaluate the conditions
in order to efficiently utilize the limited resources locally available
and allows them to develop warranted plans, programs and capital
improvement schedules. Documentation prompts local community
leaders to assess redevelopment activities as well as their financial
ability to provide the necessary infrastructure to support and/or
bolster a neighborhood's existing and future housing/employment
alternatives, its social, cultural and/or recreational opportunities.
specifically, in times of fiscal constraints and ever-competing
demands on fiscal resources, such studies can help justify the technical
and financial support necessary for specific programs or project6s
to come to fruition.
Finally, documentation
provides for open communication and furthers dialogue between neighborhood
residents, businesses and community leaders, establishing the basis
for discussion and can assist local governments and community groups
in developing appropriate and mutually agreed upon plans, programs
and proposals. Neighborhood based studies can provide the
technical basis from which partnerships can develop between local
governments and concerned citizens groups. With all of this
in mind Lima-Allen County Regional Planning has prepared the following
neighborhood reports:
Bath
Leonard Report
City
View Report
Country
Club Report
Lost
Creek Report
Midway
East Report
Northwest
Perry Report
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