Calapooia Middle School, 11/19/98

• Safe
• Friendly
• Neighbors look out for each other
• Skinny streets
• Walkable:

1. all services within a 5-minute walk
2. five-foot wide sidewalks
3. planting strips with street trees
4. access to public transportation

• Streetscape-homes form an outdoor room, a pleasant shape:
  1. front porches
  2. garages set back
  3. front porches with a wet-bar
  4. mixed use
• Smart Development creates Great Neighborhoods:
  1. efficient use of land resources
  2. full utilization of urban services
  3. mixed use
  4. transportation options, multi-modul
  5. detailed human-scaled design
• Adopt ODOT's Smart Development Code Handbook

South Albany High School, 11/23/98

[Ed.: The following comments from the general discussion at South Albany High School are listed in the order that they were spoken. No effort has been made to group them in anyway.]

What Makes a Neighborhood Great?

• Kindness to others (not mean)-work through Neighborhood Watch
• Acceptance-openness
• Livability (long and short term)
  1. Raise family
• Eliminating hazards

1. i.e. Road rage, highways, streets
2. Cloverleaf
3. Patrol of area

• Care about and respect others
• Provide facilities SRVC for others: transit, accommodate needs
• Open spaces
• Get to know your neighbor
• Train and educate Girl Scouts/Boy Scouts/Boys' and Girls' Club, county fairs, etc.
• City declare block party week
• Citywide group fed by neighborhoods
• Follow through-do something
• Student prior
• Do more to get students out and involved

How to Get People Engaged in Neighborhood...

• Access to open space-park-walk
• Keep people in sports and families
• Provide facilities
• Have family places-sports complex
• Set achievable goals then celebrate (communicate them)
• Make it affordable and easy to access
• Worry about $$ after we have a plan
• Build a community center
• Be an example for others
• Tough on crime
• Accessible
• Good housing for the poor
• Accessibility, i.e., curb cuts, uneven pavement
• Harness service and community organizations
• Get rid of pollution
• Bring pride and beauty out
• Bike, rollerblade, skateboard facilities safer; Willamette trail
• Facility that provides opportunity for youth within walking distance
• Organize to keep these efforts "alive"; put ideas to work
• Change outside opinion
• Improve "beautify" Parks & Recreation Empower City Council-annual meeting-use newsletter
• More "stink" to keep what we have
• Spread common interest and pride
• Look to and leverage citizens and groups
• Citizen engage!
• Neighborhood breakfasts
• Find "doers"
• Get people to sign up "to do"
• Unite and stay united

1. No gates
2. Have a variety of housing
3. Options Citywide

• "Do it!"
• Communicate
• Use school facility more often; let school serve as nucleus community center
• A community "summit"
• Students in the street
• Find help
• Get neighbors together
• Take this info back to boards and organizations you are members of
• Take pride in Albany because it is nice
• Strengthen Neighborhood Watch
• Volunteer clearing house
• Skate park
• Change streets (Casa Villa, Lehigh)
• Coordinate curb access with PP&L
• Join Albany Optimists' Club
• Volunteerism
• Slow traffic: especially on 34th, support street bond issue)
• Programs kids want to go to!
• Keep an open mind to growth
• Took 24 years to get schools at no $ cost
• Neighbors' responsibility-take it!

What to do now?

• A structure for Great Neighborhoods via wards and Council member help
• Organize ideas into categories; get back to us
• Focus on small area and issue(s)
• Focus on Neighborhood Watch and enhancing communication
• Train leaders
• A city university