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Many of the physical and social problems in our neighborhoods are
caused by a lack of communication between neighbors and co-operative effort
among neighbors. Residents have many of the ideas and available resources
needed to solve neighborhood problems but they need to be motivated and
organized. Neighborhood leadership
development has not been adequately encouraged nor nurtured.
We should decentralize and broaden the decision making process
for some neighborhood land use planning and zoning decisions, ordinance enforcement review and management
decisions for some city services with neighborhood councils. By
giving neighborhood residents real official review power in city decision
making that affects the neighborhoods, a participation motivation factor
for resident involvement in neighborhood councils is added.
The City should pay for regularly organizing neighborhood
residents for social and community project events. To accomplish this the City should encourage leadership development by
contracting with individuals, organizations or businesses for each
neighborhood or block event. Payment should be based on the level of
success achieved in organizing and running the social or project event that
brings diverse people and groups together and improves the neighborhood's
physical attributes.
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