SoutheastNeighborhoodStrategicActionPlan_January1995_Current

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Southeast Quality of Life Strategic Neighborhood Action Plan NEIGHBORHOOD ISSUES Neighborhood Issues As a result of the comments and neighborhood perspectives offered at the public forum, the consultant team prepared a limited list of issues to be addressed within four categories. The consultant also posed an overall mission for the strategic plan, and individual mission statements for each of the four category areas: Land Use and Physical Environment, Neighborhood Security, Capacity Building and Housing. Upon review and discussion with the SEQL leadership and after public comment, the following Mission Statement was accepted. THE SOUTHEAST SIDE M/SSION FOR SUCCESS: The Southeast Side will achieve the complete involvement of every neighborhood resident and business in development of the strategic action plan and the revitalization of the neighborhood to guarantee the quality of life for themselves and each other. The Consultant team prepared four work papers, one for each of the four issue categories. These papers were designed to focus neighborhood attention on the trends which led to existing conditions, and to suggest alternative approaches toward addressing neighborhood goals. SOUTHEAST NEIGHBORHOOD SECURITY WORKING PAPER Trends and Conditions Based on discussions held in the Security Task Force Meeting on July 13, 1994, a picture emerges of the Southeast neighborhood under siege from crime and the fear of crime. A picture emerges of criminal activity in various locations in the area, including solicitation for purposes of prostitution, drug sales and use, drug houses, teen gangs and a general feeling of insecurity. In fact most recently three (3) teens were shot and a gang on bicycles (A.K.A. Dog Life Posse) may have been responsible. The neighborhood residents do not feel enough law enforcement is being provided to contain the crime and remove the criminal element from the neighborhood. 85