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Neighborhood Task Force New Bern Choice Neighborhoods March 3, 2015 Introductions Role of Task Force Members Existing Conditions Breakout Discussions Next Steps 1 Introductions Who is in the room? Local professionals


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March 3, 2015

  • Introductions
  • Role of Task Force Members
  • Existing Conditions
  • Breakout Discussions
  • Next Steps

Neighborhood Task Force New Bern Choice Neighborhoods

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Introductions

  • Who is in the room?
  • Local professionals
  • Residents
  • City staff
  • Planning team

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Choice Neighborhoods

  • Holistic Plan: Neighborhood + Housing + People
  • Community Engagement
  • Greater Five Points community
  • Craven Terrace and Trent Court residents
  • Coordination with other Plans and Activities
  • End Goal: Community-driven Transformation Plan
  • Outline with Content – March 22, 2015
  • Draft Transformation Plan – August 22, 2015
  • Final Transformation Plan – February 2016

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Task Force Responsibilities

  • Engage: Actively and respectfully participate in meetings

and bring new ideas

  • Communicate: Serve as liaison to the larger community

re: the Transformation Plan

  • Listen: Identify priorities for the plan based on

community input

  • Research: Develop evidence-based strategies
  • Partner: Identify partners and help secure commitments and

resources for the Plan

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Neighborhood Task Force Existing Conditions

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Neighborhood Survey

  • What respondents liked most about the

neighborhood:

  • an affordable place to live (73%);
  • churches in the community (57%).
  • Majority are satisfied/very satisfied with the

Greater Five Points Neighborhood (70%) and believe that the neighborhood has remained stable/improved over the last year (80%).

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Neighborhood Survey

  • Most serious issues identified:
  • lack of jobs (84%)
  • crime, drugs and violence (71%)
  • The three top issues to be addressed in the

neighborhood:

  • improving existing homes (72%)
  • addressing crime and public safety issues (68%)
  • improving the public transportation network (63%)
  • Transportation issues cited as one of the largest barriers to full-

time employment

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Neighborhood Task Force Economic Development

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  • 117 neighborhood establishments employ 768 people
  • Commercial potential is limited in the near term but a

targeted program of initiatives can increase opportunity

  • Neighborhood is underserved by retail and fresh food

sources

  • Armstrong’s, convenience stores, Dollar Store are primary retail
  • Farmer’s Market in downtown New Bern offers fresh food options
  • What improvements can be made to existing amenities?
  • What types of things are missing?

Neighborhood amenities

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Most needed amenities include:

  • Grocery store (48%)
  • Large retail store (45%)
  • Doctor’s office/community health clinic (37%)
  • Laundromat/dry cleaner (34%)

Piggly Wiggly identified as most frequent source for food shopping (84%); only 18% of respondents go to Armstrong’s most often

Neighborhood amenities – residents

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Neighborhood Task Force Housing Conditions

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Source: RKG Housing Market Analysis

Property Condition

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Housing stock

  • Better housing is top-rated change residents would like to see (23%)

How can we improve the appearance of existing housing? What should new housing look like to fit the neighborhood?

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$0 $25,000 $50,000 $75,000 $100,000 $125,000 $150,000 $175,000 $200,000

All residential buildings Single family homes

Comparison of average value

Greater Five Points Area City of New Bern

$34,300 $118,500 $51,500 $176,000

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Neighborhood Task Force Crime and Safety

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  • Citywide violent crime rate declined from 2011 to

2013

  • Violent crime rate in neighborhood was four times

higher than the rate citywide in 2013

  • 23% of all crimes reported in the neighborhood
  • ccurred in Craven Terrace or Trent Court
  • What can we do together to improve

neighborhood safety?

Neighborhood safety

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Mixed response about crime:

  • More than 1 in 4 residents (28%) think crime occurs frequently
  • While a comparable 1 in 5 residents (20%) say rarely

Most residents feel safe in the neighborhood by day (95%) But 1 in 3 (30%) do not feel safe in the neighborhood at night 4 out of 5 have experienced crime

  • 47% experienced assault
  • 43% sale and use of drugs
  • 32% bullying
  • 29% assault/physical attack
  • 26% teenage violence
  • 26% domestic violence

Neighborhood safety – residents

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Neighborhood Task Force Transportation

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  • Only 1 in 3 residents has a car
  • 1 in 5 (22%) cited it as the top service needed right now
  • 1 in 2 state that transportation is a very big or somewhat

big problem

  • #1 barrier for parent participation in school
  • #1 impediment to youth participation in out-of-school time

programs

  • #1 need for those with disabilities is better transportation
  • ptions
  • Although more than ½ of households said they have no barrier

to accessing quality affordable health care; 16% cited transportation is a barrier, second only to cost

Getting around - residents

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  • CARTS operates weekday bus service with 30 to 75 minutes

between scheduled stops

  • Buses stop at Trent Court and Craven Terrace 11 times

during the day

  • CARTS will be conducting a Needs Analysis to help define

alternatives for future growth and expansion

Getting around: transit

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Getting around - neighbors

  • Only 13% of respondents rode CARTS frequently
  • Reasons for not using CARTS included:
  • don’t know the bus schedule,
  • the bus doesn’t go where they need to go,
  • the wait between buses is too long.

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  • Sidewalks are lacking in most parts of the neighborhood
  • There are no street lights in Craven Terrace
  • Residents identified better street lighting as one of top-

rated improvements to make neighborhood feel safer (42%)

  • Where do people walk? Would they walk more with better

sidewalks and lighting?

  • Would people bike more if there were signs and marked

lanes?

Getting around: walking & biking

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Neighborhood Task Force Recreation and Green Space

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DRAFT For review

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  • Four parks (40 acres) are in the study area, including a

recreation center, and four others are nearby (10+ acres)

  • RiverWalk extension across Trent Court to Liberty

Street planned for completion summer of 2015

  • Youth programming/recreation space is second-rated

change residents would like to see happen (18%)

  • Desired amenities include:
  • Outside recreation space (34%)
  • Indoor recreation space (30%)

Recreation and Green Space

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Neighborhood Task Force Break Out Groups

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Break Out Groups

  • Review existing conditions information
  • What is still missing? What other information do

you need?

  • Are there other stakeholders or agencies

that should be involved but aren’t here?

  • Begin discussion of vision and strategies
  • Plan next meetings and work to be done

before then

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Neighborhood Task Force Next Steps

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Neighborhood Task Force

  • Task force members should share your

discussions and continue thinking about vision, principles, and desired outcomes

  • Schedule and convene next meetings
  • Planning team available to answer questions

and provide help as needed

  • Planning team will support development of

detailed strategies and approaches

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Future Working Group Meetings

  • Determine and prioritize strategies for near-

term implementation

  • Identify lead entity and key partners for

each strategy

  • Define what success looks like. What
  • utcomes do we want to see?
  • Identify available metrics to measure

progress.

  • Ensure sustainability – how will work

continue after this process is over?

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Neighborhood Task Force

Thank you for your continued involvement!

This is your transformation plan – help us make it the best it can be. www.choicenewbern.com

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