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Southeast Quality of Life <br />Strategic Neighborhood Action Plan <br />Success <br />Critical measures of success will include the adoption of Neighborhood Land <br />Use planning documents which allow the City and existing and future residents <br />of the neighborhood an opportunity to predict and plan for the future public and <br />private investments. Particularly important will be the ability to set a limit to the <br />encroachment of non-residential uses into the residential area and the protection <br />of the core residential area through land use controls. <br />The Southeast Neighborhood, through the development of SEQL, must establish <br />a mechanism for monitoring change. The Land Use and Physical Environment <br />Task Force, or its successor standing committee, must regularly inventory and <br />report progress and defeats. Among the items to be monitored are changes to <br />the use of land, (new homes built or located, homes demolished, new <br />businesses established, new parks established, etc.) changes to the zoning or <br />land use designations, improvements or declines in the physical condition of <br />property or buildings, and physical improvements or declines in the condition of <br />public infrastructure or utilities. <br />How Does the Strate Address the Goals? <br />The Task Force's four point strategy and the actions which further define this <br />strategy are aimed at implementing a series of goals for the neighborhood: <br />The Task Force cited the continued erosion of the residential core of the <br />neighborhood through abandonment, demolition, and conversion to institutional <br />uses as a significant influence on the quality of life within the neighborhood and <br />the prospects for continued existence. There is a critical mass of homes within <br />a limited area below which the sense of place, the economic stability, and the <br />neighborhood's social structure are no longer viable. The neighborhood need <br />not be completely residential, thus the strategy for establishing an appropriate <br />balance of uses in their appropriate locations. The Task Force calls for a <br />cooperative effort between the neighborhood and the City of South Bend to <br />adopt a Neighborhood Land Use plan and to implement and defend the plan <br />through appropriate revisions to the zoning ordinance, map and other <br />development controls, <br />51 <br />