Greater Warren / Conner Community Meeting (missed first 15 minutes)

6:28PM Jan 18, 2024

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Good minute, I am another member of the planning development staff at CB trade. And primarily my role is managing many benefits projects that are just like gold so you can meet them it's ordinates. Just a little bit of background because we are talking about how to use funds from previous committee benefits agreement that many of you are likely familiar with that was for this to Lantus, formerly known as the Fiat Chrysler expansion back several years ago, and part of that community benefits agreement was that the scientist has made an $800,000 donation to a neighborhood Impact Fund and that was negotiated by the neighborhood Advisory Council. And the community had to be including the committee benefits package. And the only thing that was stipulated in that agreement was that the funds are to be used for projects recommended by the planning study, which is the process we've been going through for the past year. So this is exactly what the agreement called for us to do, to receive the funds to have the communications committee about how they wanted to bribe me, but how do you it was fun to use it and then come up with a plan for implementing it if we can go to the next slide. So and then sort of question we've been asking, in addition to having the long term planning study is how to use the short term term implementation funds, and asking the community through a series of public engagement, like Eric just kind of described the public meetings, focus groups, to Community Survey, the community ambassador is going out for doing surveys surveys online as well, largely, and we'll get more into the into more detail about this. But feedback has been evenly split between focusing on what we termed as like, resident or individual Senator projects, and then projects that have maybe a larger community impact that can be, you know, enjoyed by more than just one individual homeowner, for example. So what we're going to do in a few minutes is kind of break down some of the specific options we've come up with for how to divide up the funding based on the all the feedback that we've received. If we can go to the next slide, please, it's okay. Now, I don't remember if I was going to speak to this, or if this was you, Eric. All right. I'm going to hand it back over to Eric now. But thank you for the opportunity and look forward to the continued discussion.

Exactly. So as I mentioned, we've been asking questions throughout this process of where do people want to see the money spent? You know, $800,000, it's, it's only going to be spent so far. But throughout the the first public meeting and second public meeting, they asked, if you got your choice, how would you how would you split the money up? This breakdown of kind of preferences here is based on both community meeting too. And the 102 survey responses that we received. So generally are kind of high highest level of priority are around small business support community or corridor improvements in home repair grants. The others continue to kind of fall off but but those are the ones that we've heard, particularly on repair grants are the ones that we've heard consistently throughout this project. And wanting to make sure that as we move forward, that is included in each of the options. So even though we have an even split between directing the money to either individual grants or homeowner homeowner grants to do home repair projects, or a larger community improvement, there is a major benefit here, we want to make sure that folks are aware of how far that's going to get spread and what the impacts of that might be. In addition, we heard a number of other kind of comments that were outside of these buckets here. Things like flight enforcement tickets support for that. Food always to cease run by block clubs, prepares the streets, sidewalks and streets, removal of dead trees, blight removal, making sure that everything is ADA accessible within the neighborhood. And then upgrading traffic signals to to match demand for traffic in the in the neighborhood. So before we get into the kind of options here, we've got a one on to sort of preface this with the projects are based on all the feedback we've heard from the community meetings, all the input from previous planning that we've received research from other planning documents and other communities that have implemented something similar to this around the country. A big piece of this is what the city's actually capable of implementing. Some of the projects that we've initially come up with have initially come up with. It seems good on paper, but there's no actual mechanism for actually doing it. And then your feedback today, both at this meeting and then tonight's can person meeting is really going to decide the final sort of direction that we go with with this project. So we've broken it down, I think we mentioned them resident impact focus, and then the resident focused impact and neighborhood focus impact. And the idea behind this is to show those resident focused impacts are going to be much more individual things like many grants to community agencies, support for individual small business owners, Home Repair grants, things like that, and you're smaller, smaller in size, smaller and scale, and the impact is going to be relatively small. When we talk about a neighborhood focused impact, we have things like a park improvement or support for local developments, supporting additional resiliency hubs in the neighborhood or enhance doing a streetscape project. And those are going to have a larger geographical impact because people are going to come down to say streetscape project and be able to enjoy that. But it's going to be a small sort of impact to each individual person. So the way we kind of wanted to do is focused these more on the hybrid option of how can we get a little bit of impact to the greater community while also maintaining some funding for some of those smaller, smaller projects that are going to directly benefit homeowners. And so option A, this is our resident focused impact here. The breakdown, you can kind of see here on the right of the screen, or the majority of it is dedicated towards home repair 600,000 of the $800,000. This based on our conversations with with bridging neighborhoods and others, that funding would be enough to prepare approximately 30 to 40 homes in the neighborhood. The community grants those would be up to 615 $1,000 grants for the community organizations within the neighborhood. And then potentially another, dedicating 60,000 or more to a community youth space. And then the last bit of this is a $50,000 grant to connect business owners to existing business support programs by tapping folks in the neighborhood block clubs, community ambassadors to go out and basically tell folks about the projects and the the technical support that's out there, connect those residents to existing programs. Since home repair is a big part of this, wanting to visually show you the visual of this and a little bit different way 30 To 40 homes that seems like it's that's not not too bad. But when you think about on the scale, the neighborhood got 4200 homes in the neighborhood 30 to 40 Homes is about 1% of the total investment or total total number of residences. And you can see just based on this graphic, but that's that's one out of every 100. It's a drop in the bucket, and it's definitely needed. But we want to make sure that everyone is aware that what what is being proposed here is as a relatively small benefit to the larger neighborhood, but will be a large benefit to the each of those individual homeowners who would who would potentially receive the money. Option B still still maintains that home repair, it's less than than than option A because the larger portion of the $100,000 is spent on a neighborhood activation and this could be support for micro retail space to encourage local entrepreneurs to come out and and get a foothold in the neighborhood. This could be improvements to a local park. This could be opportunities for streetscape enhancements or lighting improvements or branding along a certain corridor. And then it could also be used to support the development or expansion of an existing resiliency hub in the neighborhood. Seen seen some of this similar type of work happened in other neighborhoods in the city. But still given the desire for Home Repair and then the community, we decided that this was still a very important part of what people wanted to see the money spent on and this $300,000 could be spent to rehab or repair approximately 15 to 20 homes given the budget. So before we go any further, we talked about the kind of preferred options. We talked about home repair. This is the the items that are the projects within home repair that that would actually be eligible for for funding and these are essentially those those projects that are that are critical. Safety repairs to homes. And those are things like new roofs, furnaces, plumbing, drain replacements, electrical panels, general electrical improvements, drains within your, your, your yard, portrait placements citing anything that's going to keep you in your home. Because it's a it's a safety issue. And that's what bridging neighborhoods that the group that would actually be implementing this is, is focused on. So we can, we can pause here and think we have potentially have a poll. If not, if the poll isn't working. We can we can do it via chat, but we want to know, which one do you prefer, after seeing that that more detailed breakdown of how the money could be spent? Which way do we want to go with this? And, and there's going to be, I think, a sub question of, if you choose Option A, what is your preferred project? Yeah,

so I will go ahead and launch the poll. Let me know if y'all see it. So are people seeing a pool? I see it. Okay. And I don't know if it's helpful to go back to any of the graph the size of the pie charts, that people want to see those again, this the option A versus option B breakdown.

Just let me know and I can go back. Yeah,

so Can folks. Attendees, are you are you all able to see the poll and so please go ahead and begin want to get your feedback here?

We still have responses coming in? Just great. Give a few more minutes.

Another two minutes or so and yeah, so far, I've had 13 people complete the poll.

I know we have a mix of city folk city staff who probably shouldn't be completing the poll. Thank you. But you know, residents who are on this are stakeholders from the community. We'll give you a few more minutes. So far, it's 13 folks who have completed.

Seems like we're kind of at the 13th Is there anyone who has had an issue to have an opportunity to complete the poll up to this point? I do one last call. You can let us know you didn't chat or come off mute. We didn't get a chance to. Otherwise we'll be left call

looks like 13 which is great. Really appreciate it. I am gonna go ahead and end the poll now. If anyone had any issues with it, definitely reach out to us. Make sure to record your response

otherwise, you Um

and I think appreciate everyone doing that.

Ask if folks have any questions like, Brenda, you've got your hand up. Yes.

I got a question. I'll, in answering the poll, it wouldn't submit.

You didn't have an opportunity to submit?

No, I did not.

Okay. Brenda, it miss Butler, if you want to either send by email or chat me your options. Or we can we can follow up with you and get your response, because it will be getting responses tonight as well. But I'm

okay, I can do that. I can do that. But I do have a question. Are you ready to go to the floor for question?

Yeah. Okay. So some questions.

Okay. This forum that we're having today is, is impacting the total 800,000 novice, correct?

Yes, this will determine how you know whether we go with Option A or Option B, based on the community's feedback. Okay,

so. And you mentioned the home repair program by what was that group called?

Bridging neighborhoods,

bridge and neighborhood? Okay, so Haven't they already completed 30 to 40 homes?

Yes, this would be an additional project for them to work on. So part of the money that we've discussed today, in the case of option a $600,000, would would go to bridging neighborhoods for them to deal with 30 to 40 more homes.

30 to 40? More, yes. Additional. Okay, so. Okay, so the first started avoiding that idea, it did not come out with this 800,000

No, no, no, this is

we did No. No. Okay. So, so, so right now, we, we are at the point where we can get another 30 to 40 homes. Repair, correct? Yes, for

option A, but for option B, it would be more like 15 to 20.

Okay, so would be, it's only 15 to 20 homes to can be done at $15,000 per house,

something like that, you know, at the end of the day, it's going to come down to the repair per application more so then, you know, even split the money. So like, if somebody needed, say, a hot water boiler, or like a new boiler and a hot water heater, that might be significantly less than a roof, right. So it's not like the say, you're going to get changed based on what you needed. But it is to say we were prior towards prioritizing the, you know, an individual's greatest needs. So, you know, so that hopefully, it can be spread out as far as possible.

And in discussions with bridging neighborhoods, they've indicated that construction costs have gone way up since probably the first round of this. So we did take a more conservative approach of assuming things are going to cost more just because that's the way things are right now. Like Brandon said, If there's less costly improvements that some folks have, then that money is going to go further, but I think we assumed 20,000 or more, maybe 25,000 per home, just just given where, where, where things are in terms of hiring contractors right now. Okay,

so question in the first round, first round with the home repair, they the bridge in Michigan, they concentrated on a certain area. However, we never got a report on what area and what holes were repaired during that phase. So I tend to get till we get that report before we can decide on the next phase of money to be spent so that we could decide what area we want that money spinning.

So I can speak to it because I know there have been multiple phases and there was a first phase that was only on Bennett. So in a second phase, which was not focused on a particular area, but was open to the whole impact area, and I believe a report has been shared before I see that put me on the spot. Director rosow, but if if you have additional details from bridging neighborhoods about that report, maybe we can deal with that offline. Or if you want to speak to it now. Yeah, I

can speak to it quickly now. Thanks, Aaron. Ms. Ms. Butler, we've dealt with the neighborhood Advisory Committee throughout the entire phase two home repair process. So from the implementation application stage, all the way through construction all the way through completion, and a map that has dots on the map showing where all the houses were located. In the 50, home repairs that we did through Phase Two has been shared. And of course, we're not going to provide specific addresses to the public. That's not our business to do

that where we ask him for we're asking for air for neighborhoods. So

Gotcha. Yeah. So so the majority of all the home repairs were dotted, strictly around the Fiat Chrysler assembly plant, we can probably provide the specific neighborhoods but I don't believe in Amy may be able to speak to this a little bit more. But I don't believe we had many home repairs that went into the the area that this project is focusing on.

And giving me an answer like that, then you don't ask for it. You're not answering the question under the impact funding. That was that was in the first phase that was dedicated for home repairs, and home repairs. monies that was dedicated around Beneteau came out a different fund a money? No,

that's that's not accurate.

Okay, okay. So let's say that it did the Beneteau. Improvement, home Hall repair and improvements that was done, came out of this pot of money. No,

I'm sorry, let me let me back up. And let me let me be 100% clear, there was an addition, at the at the audit, I don't want to take up too much time, because we have a lot more to get through in this meeting. But there was $1.8 million dedicated just to home repairs separate from this 800,001 point 8 million split between. And there are two phases, one, first phase one to Beneteau, the second phase went to the rest of the impact area. So that's what happened with that particular money. And I and I think the bridging neighborhoods group, we could we can probably provide that map that we provided to the neighborhood Advisory Council, if you want to see the dots have, or some sort of information about where those took place on offline. But um, to be perfectly clear, none of the home repair from the previous phase came out of this money we're talking about here today.

Okay, that's the understanding that I'm trying to get. Because Butler,

the other thing to say, would be to say, we haven't necessarily defined a ranking system right for how future homes will be selected. But one thing we have heard from the community is that they would like to see if this indeed does, you know, if everybody says we want these home repairs, one thing we we've heard is that they want it to be open to the whole area as opposed to just one you know, street so that folks that you know, live in the impact area but aren't necessarily the closest to you know, the salons, this factory still have a chance to receive the benefits. So that being said, we don't believe going forward like geography would be that first qualifying factor.

Okay, that was my understanding also. Okay, we can move on. Thank

you, Miss Butler.

I get allow for

any other questions, please put in the chat and someone from the team should be able to answer them. And we'll have a little bit of time hopefully at the end to talk about the Focus Area concepts. So this is this is separate from the CDO. This is long term planning recommendations for greater Warren Connor are specifically looking at those five focus areas that we have We talked about earlier on and that kind of project. And really, the goal is to find spots of concentrated activity and build on that activity as we, as we go through into the future and hopefully build on some of the activity that comes out of whichever CBO option is preferred by the community, both are going to have some some some definite impacts to, to the neighborhood. And we want to make sure that we capitalize on, you know, home repairs in a certain area, making sure that there's some complementary investments there as well. So this is a detailed map, if you come to the to the meeting tonight, you'll be able to see this six foot by four foot map and get really close into all the different recommendations that we've got. But what I want you to focus on, as part of, you know, when you're looking at this, and we're gonna go through a lot of these in detail is starting to see some of these overlapping areas of color. So we've got Connor and Warren here that are, there's a lot of potential opportunity there and out in somebody's neighborhood notes throughout the neighborhood, and improving the parks and adding new connections to the rest of the city and into the neighborhood. Each one of these individual recommendations is tied to one of those focus areas. And our hope is that as we start to pick some of these off and implement them, they're going to continue to build the activity and and sort of more things will follow behind that. So the broken down at the highest highest level improvements here are recommendations by each of the focus areas, starting with neighborhood stabilization. The goal is to focus on areas that are going to benefit from some of the specific stabilization efforts that the city has at their disposal. So this is things like rehabbing ready, vacant home stabilization, taking empty houses, importing them up and fixing the roof and making sure that they can be rehabbed at a later date, demolishing those that are just too far gone and causing blight and issues, and then activating vacant land in a way that is beneficial to the community and helps improve the beautification and what the what the community would like to see. And the goal with this is the overlap of all those other focus areas, commercial mobility, parks, sustainability, so that when there starts to get a higher density of people living in an area, they have places to go, they have parks to visit, they got places, there are ways to get around. And again, that that activity builds on itself. First, focusing on preservation of homes and home structures, we've got a couple of areas within the neighborhood, those circled in yellow there that have could be targeted either for rehabbing ready, which we've indicated this here as we get the sort of rehabbing ready first zone. And then the other two locations on the west side of the neighborhood would be more on that home stabilization. This is all based on where recently sold homes that occurred where the dlba currently owns property. And starting to build on what's what's happened currently, what's happened over the last five years, a goal is that this will not be the only place that that we get rehabbed and ready, it was going to be more of start to build the build the activity there and then switch to another zone within the community. We've come up with a concept that we're calling resiliency zones. And this is an opportunity or a strategy to help address some of those really high concentrations of vacant land within the community. So you're looking at this map here, the dark purple, that's that's your areas, I just have lots and lots of empty lots that are owned by the dlba in most cases. And I want to combine the idea of this kind of vacant land treatment with improvements to residential property, building new homes, rehabbing other homes, so that there's something that looks similar to this in concept. This is an idea that we've come up with starts to find pockets of existing homes, add in new potential homes. But then all of this green and yellow here that you see are kind of goldish color are either vacant land strategies or community spaces that would be maintained by the or not maintained but utilized by the community. So these vacant land strategies could be things that are just sort of clean mode lots that could be wildflower gardens that are that are not really mode, but are intended to be sort of Talaash grass. It could be green stormwater infrastructure to improve some of the flooding in the neighborhood, community open spaces, micro parks, neighborhood agriculture, there is a farm, or there's a number of urban farms within the neighborhood. And potentially even some small scale solar systems that could go on top of houses or on some small lots to concentrate some of the power generation within within the neighborhood. And it was it just a couple of these shown from other areas and the city. Things like edge treatments fit within some of those other categories, but are intended to reduce dumping and illegal use of the of the properties. But this is kind of what they might look like they're not it's not set in stone. But in the chat, let us know, what would you like? Would you like to see any of these installed in your neighborhood? are we way off base here? What other potential kind of vacant land improvements would you would you be willing to support within the neighborhood

resiliency hubs, there are a number of existing resiliency hubs in the neighborhood and some potential new ones. Really, the goal with this is to establish that network of kind of community spaces that residents any resident would have access to. And each one of these potential locations here would have a specific set of resources for the community. And this could be places to go when there's bad weather like today. places that have alternative energy systems that don't fail when it rains or thunderstorms, places to get workforce development or community education, internet access. places that have medical support or social support, places for kids in the neighborhood to go and interact with others and have a safe space to be after school, places where food can be distributed. And then just general community meeting spaces. You know, brilliant Detroit, Eastside community network. And those two are sort of already providing some of these services. There's the Canfield consortium community hub that's been planned and identified. The forthcoming champion Park sports stone Connect is one of these. We've called out a potential area kind of down there and the southeast portion of the neighborhood along Mack avenue for potential location. But this is intended to be sort of a place that you go when you when you have some some need and could be anything from eating to talk to your neighbors two hours out of my house and I need to stay warm. parks and open space. So a big a big topic here we've got one of the largest parks in the city within this neighborhood in Chandler Park. But residents are really interested in trying to improve the smaller space solid park spaces that are not actually on the park that are more tucked within the neighborhood. Do they want to see better do I want to see better connections to those parks, but then also improving the safety and aesthetics within within Chandler park itself. Brewer Park has been talked about a lot. It is slated for improvements in Phase Five or six GSPs parks plan. The this is something that the Parks and Rec Department is looking at thinking about but we thought going into the next couple of years, here's some opportunity to activate the park with a small amount of investment that would sort of set things up for the future. Those future practice zones seem like there are things like pathways trees, sort of ongoing mowing of the larger lawn there. But then holding space for things like basketball courts, playgrounds, pavilions, plazas and other things that the neighborhood wants. This is intended to be kind of a stopgap between what now and when GSD would would take this on essentially. And there would be a lot more engagement and planning that would go to the very specific aspects of things like amenities that would actually happen within this park. Brand I see your hand up

you're on mute by the way.

Okay, Oh, just to piggyback on Chandler Park, what is the have you set with this last plan? Have you set the funding amount, that dollar amount that's going to go into channel apart?

There's no set amount that is dedicated for any of the parks improvements. That's coming for PDD at least and I know Brennan or Aaron, if you have a better answer to that question. These are all conceptual ideas that there's nothing I can say

about Chandler Park is that in, in keep in mind for these like long term Freek framework recommendations, right, these are kind of things that, you know, we can get the community to kind of buy on buying on some things now, the city may, will hopefully be able to budget for these type of like longer term recommendations. Right. So Chandler Park, I believe, has received probably over a million dollars and improvements over the last few years. And, you know, they will continue to kind of work within the parks budget on that, right. So I just want to make sure that we're clear that, you know, as far as Chandler Park goes, and as far as Brewer Park goes in phases, five and six, that's coming from like, a different pot of money within the city that is reserved for the parks plan. So since they had invested so heavily in Chandler, I think in like phases, I believe one or two of that parks, General, and let me just for the whole for the whole Carl GSD is the General Services Department. And they maintain, you know, like the open spaces, they're the ones that come and mow lots and stuff. And so they have kind of their own budget for all of these things. And so what we're talking about in terms of, you know, like, what we're looking at today is, you know, things that will come from, largely from a different pot of money that is budgeted by, you know, somebody over my head that, you know, kind of shares the city money with the different departments so,

so that, let me

know why didn't even mention the news in the framework, you know, funding is getting ready to be put in.

We want to make sure that there's some priorities to essentially, if you put things in a plan, then you're better set up to get funding in the future. So there's opportunities for grants, there's opportunities for outside funding outside of the city, but those things have to be on a planning document in order to be eligible for them. And

okay, so let me just let me just say this Sterlet is already gay. of funding. appropriation to channel Park, channel Park should not even be in this period. We should be concentrating a rural Park. The community would like to concentrate on Brewer Chandler, because there was a press conference and everything where the letters came out and presented a check to channel Park. So Chandler Park already got that piece of the pack from the Lantus with this Newt with the new with the new plan. We're

we're talking about River Park right now. Okay.

So let me just add a little bit to the whole discussion. This is Alex, I want to chat with Park Conservancy. So the city of Detroit, the GSD department has done a city why master plan for all the parks in the city of Detroit. And so they have kind of like a timeline of how they want to address each of those parks, all those parks community and input to those parks. And in some of those activities, some of these things can be amended as they get closer to putting some of the buildings, some of the different products. And so as far as chantler go, the money that's been raised for Chaplin has been raised to GSD. They do two grants, some come from the general fund, some of that money to check for proper servicing raises the dollars that came from the lab tests because no dollars in this funding source for check the park for anything. The dollars that came from Savannah was a separate pot of money. But Chandler Park had not anticipated nor does it anticipate getting any of the dollars to do that. any particular thing as far as new amenities in the park. So just want to just clarify that. As far as the Borough Park and other parks, we want to do whatever we can to help other parts of also part of the Trump parks coalition. So there'll be other dollars in addition to these dollars, you talked about grants and things that we want to use to try to improve other parks in the area as well. So we're not just about Shetler park, but we're about all the parks in that area.

Yeah, we have here you miss Butler, when you talk about the importance of Brewer Park getting some love here and and it will, but but we're talking holistically for the whole neighborhoods. So yeah, so anyway, that's why we're talking about where we're parked right now.

Thanks. Well, Courtney, I want to make sure you space to pipe up Courtney, on the team with us.

So I just wanted to mention that, you know, some of the reasons why we wanted to get a plan, at least a preliminary plan for into this document is just what Eric mentioned that, you know, opportunities come up as we're waiting for GST to D to do their larger investment. And that will then include a whole planning process onto itself for the park. But in the meantime, what we want to do is make sure that as funding opportunities come available, whether that's still Lantis, whether that's another local person and nonprofit that wants to do work in the park, that those investments are done in a way that is in line with what the community is looking for what we've heard through this process, and also doesn't build things that get in the way of that broader and bigger investment that you all want to see with, you know, gathering spaces, pavilions, basketball courts. So the intention of this plan is is really to say when and if and in order to get those investments now and maybe even potentially spend some of that CBO money. We have a plan that says let's start making investments, whether that's sidewalks, pathways, tree plantings, and prep for that bigger project. That will be a few years down the road. So just wanted to bring some clarity to some of the reasons why we do these things. One, to get ready to, to bring the dollars to the table, and to make sure we don't step on our own toes by making investments that are according to a broader plan.

Thanks, Courtney. So we just got done talking about you in the park. Chandler Park Drive is owned by the responsibility of DPW. So not a npsd responsibility of Parks and Rec responsibility. It's a really wide streets 50 feet wide, which is really what a four lane road should be. And so there's some some opportunity here to set or connect through Chandler Park to channel or Chalmers neighborhood and down to the shoemaker bike lane and just sort of do some some aesthetic improvements to the roadway over the course of the next few years with with street improvements. So we came up with a couple of concepts here that utilize the the existing space in a way that might make it a little bit easier for folks to get around. One One is an option that has bike lanes, that would be buffered and separated with a bollard so that there's a little bit more protection there but also dedicated some on street parking for folks who are using the street or using the park and it was a lot of parking areas within within Shanna Park. And so folks park in the street kind of wherever they want, formalize that and make it a little bit more understanding of where that parking should go. The other option could be a boulevard and this is probably a little more expensive given the need to add a median there with landscaping in it but as parking on both sides of the street helps narrow the roadway down and make it easier to cross the roadway and you have twice as much parking along along the street and potentially even some space for green stormwater infrastructure within there. So these are two options. This is going to depend mostly on what DPW budget is moving forward. If you if you have particular preference, let us know in the chat. But these are some some ideas that essentially could connect part of one half of the neighborhood to the other through chanin Park Drive, which isn't a very heavily traffic street. But I would guess if the if the opportunity was there to walk or bike through counterpart people might use that.

To emphasize that these are again long term framework recommendations right this is we are no longer talking about the CBO funds

drive between what major streets police

from Connor to Dickerson so the yellow line you see here

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why bother golf? Anyone to the golf course? Yeah. Okay, so

that's the area going through the park. Okay. All right. Okay.

And you say this to you that's that's a pretty that's a lot of traffic that goes through that

at a lot of traffic yesterday is and and we do need some more stock stole water infrastructure work done in on the park. Now we do need that. Right.

I'm gonna continue because we're more talking about community greenways are another thing that we've heard. Conner Creek Greenway was a pretty beloved piece of the neighborhood until it was relocated with this the Lantus expansion. I think most people agree that it's not much of a greenway anymore. It's kind of a bike lane now. So we were looking for some opportunities to add some additional neighborhood greenways that better connect the neighborhood, they'll see Chandler park there, there's the opportunity to launch in the park drive to go a little bit Bolduc Park as immediate section there, that could be a great little roadway for someone walking or biking. There's some opportunities on the on the west side of the neighborhood to go connect through or park down to some of the neighborhoods south, you've got an opportunity on grey street here or Dickerson kind of around that area to go all the way down to Jefferson and both of those kind of north south routes would would connect you to Belle Isle. And really, the goal of this is just to make it easier for people to get around. These could be anything from a true off street Greenway to assign route to something that has bike lanes and painted options on the street. Nothing that's that's specifically laid out at this moment. But getting the lines on the map is one half of the of the of the of the challenge. The other thing to consider is that the iron Bell trail runs through here. It I think is going to be rerouted to Warren, where there's already some some bicycle connectivity, and trying to better connect the neighborhood to that iron belt Trail, which could receive some some improvements in the future, given the amount of state money that's out there, trying to see that that move forward. On the commercial economic development side, we focused we heard pretty clearly that residents want to shop in their neighborhood, there's not a lot of options for getting everyday services within the boundaries of the planning area. And so we've identified a couple of nodes, we're calling them areas intersections within the neighborhood that that could be that should be focused on from an economic development standpoint. So we have two primary nodes and two secondary nodes and the primary nodes are things that are probably likely to happen earlier on in the development of this plan, given that there's already some activity there people know that there's shops, but how can we build on the existing activity? A secondary nodes are ones that are maybe a little bit farther away, they may require some additional financing, or other activity generation there. So first one is the main one. There's already a lot of shopping here. But we heard the desire to have more walkable shops with at the Conner and Warren intersection. There's some of the big box stores. They're shown in red on the west side of Connor. There's a lot of existing residential homes, the Parkside homes, Fox Creek neighborhood, but then then there's some future development that could be slated to the northside of Parkside. Fox Creek is a neighborhood that could see additional single family home rehabs, and then the probably the biggest opportunity here is are those areas in pink where you have the still Lantis factory and capitalizing on the 5000 or so workers who come into the neighborhood A day each day and utilizing they need places to eat, go to lunch, do some grocery shopping. How can we use that also to support us the same shops that folks who live in the neighborhood need. There's two major transportation corridors here and Connor and Warren, two major DDOT bus routes. So this is more of a regional focus when it comes to how we look at the, the improvements to to this quarter. So these these improvements may be more shopping, large shopping related types of activity. When we look at our other primary node, we're going to focus on altar and Mac purely because of the Mac altar square development there that's doing pretty well. There's a lot of activity there, the parking lots mostly fold. Most of the time, there's always shops, there's a couple grocery store, grocery store and some other shops. And there's a number of commercial buildings on either side of that development there that have you ever been redeveloped or developed or could be the future of some active development happening just south of there. There's some activity on the residential side in Morningside and Grosse Pointe Park that could filter over. And then more opportunity for for future development within this area. The goal is that you start to establish some some commercial development or commercial activity here more than what's already there, and it spreads to the west closer to the center of the neighborhood. Our secondary nodes first one is at Chalmers in East Warren. There's some existing commercial activity, it's kind of sporadic. There's a lot of opportunity for both infill development with along east Warren but also within the neighborhoods to the north and the south. You've got an amenity in royal Skateland is the Korean playground. And then again, you're fairly close to the Morningside neighborhood, which in East English village, which could filter over with the right mix of businesses. East Warren and Chalmers are both data routes, the swans a major transportation route. And so focusing on that area where people are transferring the bus or just generally driving down each day, that's a captive audience that you could hope hope to bring in some additional revenue into a local business. This would be a more neighborhood focus barber shops, your pharmacies, your hardware store, kind of kind of shops in this area. And the last one is a long term recommendation on Shoemaker. There's a quite a bit of publicly on property along along Shoemaker. This is a similar type of quarters to some of the other SNF corridors we've seen where there's been a publicly building that's been eligible for gap financing. Close to the to the DDOT, terminal close to still antas you're near the I 94 interchange. But this is a longer term opportunity and can start to form the kind of central node of the the neighborhood redevelopment neighborhood resiliency zones that you see here. And in terms of activation, there's no again no dedicated money like like some of the other strategic neighborhood funds sites. So at this moment, we're thinking what are what are the the strategies that someone could take and start to activate these but thinking things like pop up retail, activating the public spaces around that so that there is some of that activity generation facade improvements or facade improvement grants to help out the local business owners who are trying to get stuff going on their own activation, or placemaking. So some quick quick, easy activation strategies to start to get people to come to a certain area. A lot of those corridors were slated for street improvements through safe streets for all and and other streetscape plans and making sure that those are coordinated with a commercial development and then long term development of city owned buildings as they become available. I mentioned the streetscape projects, safe streets for all plan as are safe streets for all. Funding is used to improve safety along a number of quarters throughout the city. Those are shown on kind of a light, bright blue there and the next year so DPW is going to be coming out and essentially doing some public engagement to Say, what do we need to do here to improve safety along? Connor, East Orange Shoemaker. Mack Avenue recently went through a streetscape planning process. There's some some improvements that are planned for Mac Avenue, potentially in the future. And then we mentioned the channel Park Drive potential improvements as well. The goal with this is to coordinate any, any development that you see in those yellow boxes there with some of the improvements that are gonna go to the streets so that there's kind of a if there's, if there's improvements to sidewalks, let's make sure that that maybe there's some improvements to the commercial buildings surrounding that. On the mobility side, a lot of the recommendations that we've developed have revolved around safety and speed reduction. And making it easier to get around the neighborhood. So I 94. So the northern border, there's a lot of traffic that comes through there and feeds into the to the neighborhood, make sure that there's some safety improvements there.

And then thinking about how to kind of slow vehicles down and go actually go the speed limit in that 25 3040 miles an hour, miles an hour over the speed limit. improving safety along i 94. And just general comfort on that, do some other recommended to plant some trees and additional buffering along the service drive so that block sound blocks some of the pollution coming from i 94. And then anywhere where there's a crossover or a bridge over 94, ensuring that there's high high visibility crosswalks, traffic lights and things that are going to make sure that vehicles are aware, potentially pedestrians crossing the streets. We talked to DDOT, about better connecting residents, both within the neighborhood and to other parts of the city. Those blue dots you see there would be areas that are slated for infrastructure improvements. So this could be benches, shelters, signage, bike racks, anything that's going to be that's going to make your trip waiting for the bus a little bit more comfortable. And then the large green dot you see there and center is the idea for a mobility hub or transfer location where East Warren Connor and there's another route that that transitions here, I think it's the shoemaker route folks could get off, they could wait in a relatively comfortable space. Maybe it's a heated shelter or two. And make that transfer in an easy way. There's also a space for buses to stop Park, drivers could get out and use the restroom. And just more of a formalized transit location within this this part of the city. Slow streets is a big push right now with with the DPW. You've seen the speed hump program around the around around the city and particularly the neighborhood. But there's some other other options that we could explore with DPW on how to reduce vehicle speeds and particularly how to reduce cut throughs from any commuters or truck traffic that may be using your particular neighborhood street. speed humps are a big one chicanes, which you see, kind of in this in this box here where or this one here where folks have to kind of go around it makes you continue to go 25 miles an hour if you're on a residential street, there bump outs to make crossing easier pedestrian crossing islands. Even things like mini roundabouts, which seem kind of scary and in a photo but are actually quite easy to navigate and really helped us slow fast moving vehicles down to the to the actual speed limit. I mentioned truck routes. There's a lot of truck traffic through this neighborhood, servicing the steel Lantis and plants and surrounding areas. Our recommendations are to really step up the enforcement of those truck routes and see them they're on and kind of the blue, light blue and the dark blue. Essentially, they're coming in from either Mack Ave. Or if that's Harper up there, and coming down to the plants. As part of those truck routes, we want to encourage and recommend industrial buffering. So things like street trees, plants, sound walls, if needed things to help keep the noise down, keep the pollution down and not feed in or filter into the surrounding neighborhoods. And the big thing is discouraging truck traffic and any kind of commuter traffic from using the neighborhood roads as a cut through. I heard quite a few folks at our last community meeting saying that people were coming off a 94 and using French road and others on the west side of the neighborhood to To get to the Atlantis plan and if you have thoughts on or have seen trucks or people who are coming to work at Factory using your neighborhood streets, let us know and then we can start to identify where some of those heavy heavy traffic locations are and recommend some of those slow street options for for those roads. Finally, the this is a larger recommendation for not touches this neighborhood but would be kind of a larger city wide recommendation but changing the Warren and forest one way pair so that's one way into town one way out of town to two two way streets similar to every most other streets we see in the city. The one way streets really foster high speeds. People missing stoplights. Encouraged direction is only in one one way. And there's enough space that we could transition both of these roadways for us and Warren into a standard three lane road that has the center turn lane, maybe as bike lanes we have on street parking, and really sort of encourage people to actually drive the speed limit. And I personally live on a one way street on on third. And people drive fast on those because it's wide, open and straight. And if we can put some operators some some ways to kind of slow folks down, hopefully we'll see some some improvements and safety. Next steps at the end of the slide deck. in person meeting tonight. If you want to come if you have neighbors who want to come at 6pm Samaritan center, we're gonna go through all the same stuff, we've got boards, we've got interactive activities, want to hear your feedback at at that meeting and see quite a few chats here that we're going to take into the record. Based on the voting, today, we're going to make a final selection on the CBO funding option. We'll let everybody know what that looks like. Following today's meetings, really get into the development of those final recommendations for each of the focus areas. That'll feed into the development of the final plan itself. And then we're gonna come back to and probably April timeframe and, and present out all the things that we've learned everything that we've heard, and give you a very detailed list of and view of everything that is slated for the neighborhood and in the next couple of years. I will stop talking because I've been talking for a while now. And we got about 15 minutes left. And Brendan goes on open up for a couple questions. Discussion. Yeah, we have. Erica Mobley has her hand up. Great. Erica,

I was just wondering if you could go back to I think it was the second or third slide where we are in the process that have like the timeline on it. Yeah, absolutely. One second.

Gotta take it. There we go. Get in there. There it is.

Thank you so much.

Any other questions or thoughts from folks on the call?

I just want to, you know, let everybody know, my email is in the chat. If there's anything that you think of, you know, after today, you know, if this, if this puts a thought in your head, and you need a couple of days for it to kind of fully fester. And you think of anything, just reach out, let me know. As by no means today, meaning like, we're done taking feedback, we are always learning and we just want to make the best frame our plan we can for the residents of the area and you know, make sure that we're taking all of your advice into consideration. So as you can kind of see, I'm going to estimate that our next meeting will be in April and I can't promise there will be no snow. But we are thinking probably first second week of April. And so you know we're going to be kind of finalizing the feedback that we get from this meeting. Everything we've heard in the poll, everything we read in the chat, and also any feedback we get tonight, and we will be recording all that out in April with with some of the final recommendations. So, again, I really appreciate everybody taking the time today. And and if I don't speak again, thank you. But yeah, we still have a couple more minutes if anybody has any further

comments or questions. There was a question about Harper. In this plan, no. And I, if I'm not mistaken, I believe Harper is outside of our study, hurry.

Yeah, I think it took the other side 94

That that would likely be in a future planning study, given that it's outside of our I'll go to the next. I'm not sharing my screen. But yeah, 94 is the is the northern border.

I'll just chime in as well. I echo everything that Brendan said. And Eric said, but just putting that I put the website of the plan in the chat as well, which is where this, you'll be able to find this presentation later this week, the recording all the previous presentations, survey results. And, and the like. So please check it out there. And there's, there's an email list you can ascribe subscribe to although if you're on this meeting, we're going to put you on email just so you'll get email updates as well. So we really want to stay in touch.

One one question real quick, the survey, how'd you all get the survey out to people?

We had it. I believe it was on the postcard that we sent in this early summer. It was on the websites, pushed it at the public meeting. And then it was also most of the responses we got were through the the community ambassador program. So we essentially found people in grocery store and on the street walking around and said, Hey, can you take the survey for us? And

now, are you still looking for additional survey responses on that?

At this point? No. But we may come back with another survey, sort of wrap everything up?

All right, thanks.

The thing I could say to the Alex is, by all means, you know, it's not like I'm going to take that the results off and retaliate them. But again, like we are still open for feedback. And if you if you want to just go ahead and complete that or you know, anybody who, you know, may want to also chime in and give their feedback, we happy to hear. And so like I said, there's so there's so you know, a couple months where we're going to be kind of compiling everything that we heard. So it's not too late for us to get the feedback. But that survey, that first survey is both as of now. Okay.

No, just in the future, whatever I can do to help you get surveys out. That's all I was thinking. So it's good. Thank you.

All right. Well,

I hope to see sunny all tonight. If you're willing to brave the cold. Yeah. Any any other feedback, please let us know.

Yeah. Thanks so much for the presentation, guys is Ms. Butler. They may not see you tonight. Okay.

Okay. You probably won't see me tonight, but thanks

to the call me. Okay. Miss Butler, you got my number, right.

I'll call you in a

few minutes. Thank you, darling. Thank you. Okay. All right. Everybody. Stay warm and stay safe.

Thank you, you as well. appreciate everyone. Hopefully, tonight.

You come to pick me up.

Can't call me. We can we can figure something out.

All right. Okay. So we'll see you later.

Thank you. All right. All right. Good day.