New Bern Choice Neighborhoods January 15, 2015 Existing Conditions - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

January 15, 2015

• Existing Conditions
• Survey Highlights
• Next Steps

Stakeholder Meeting New Bern Choice Neighborhoods

Existing Conditions

• Data collection sources
• Census and American Community Survey
• GIS data from county and city
• Conversations with city staff
• Healthy Survey information
• NBHA resident characteristics
• Market studies (residential and retail/commercial)
• Resident and neighborhood surveys
• Resident survey complete (272 household respondents – 52% rate)
• Neighborhood survey ongoing (84 respondents so far – 100 goal)

What does the data tell us? How does it inform our planning efforts?

Demographics

Trent Court/ Craven Terrace Greater Five Points City of New Bern Population 1,181 3,343 29,524 Race White 4% 7% 58% Non-White 96% 93% 42% Age Under 5 11% 10% 8% 5 to 17 27% 18% 15% 18 to 24 13% 12% 10% 25 to 54 33% 37% 37% 55 to 61 7% 10% 9% 62 and older 10% 13% 22% Average HH Size 2.26 2.30 2.25

Neighborhood Characteristics

• 40% of workers employed in education/healthcare or

accommodation/food service sectors

• Average median income in the neighborhood is $8,000

less than city

• Poverty rate is 50% higher
• 21% of houses are owner-occupied, compared to 54%

citywide

• Over half of residents in some parts of the

neighborhood do not have access to a car

Neighborhood amenities

• Four parks (40 acres) and a recreation center are in the

study area, and four more parks are nearby (10+ acres)

• Neighborhood is underserved by retail and fresh food

sources

• Youth programming/recreation space is second-rated

change residents would like to see happen (18%) What improvements can be made to existing amenities? What types of things are missing?

Neighborhood amenities – residents

Most needed amenities include:

• Grocery store (48%)
• Large retail store (45%)
• Doctor’s office/community health clinic (37%)
• Laundromat/dry cleaner (34%)
• Outside recreation space (34%)
• Indoor recreation space (30%)

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

Service Provider Inventory

• 24 of the 47 providers identified are within ten-minute

walk (half-mile) of Trent Court or Craven Terrace

• 14 education providers identified, including early

learning, after-school programming, and adult education Are these services useful? Which ones are missing? How do we increase utilization of services?

Service utilization - residents

Most recognized/utilized services include:

• RCS- Religious Community Services (70%/19%)
• Craven County Health Department (61%/10%)
• MERCI Clinic (58%/3%)
• YMCA Youth Programs (54%/4%)
• Salvation Army Food Assistance (51%/11%)

Very limited education utilization

• 7% enrolled in 2 or 4-year college
• 7% enrolled in job training/career advancement program

2 in 3 residents (68%) say they have no trouble accessing services

Neighborhood safety

• 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 – residents

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

70% of residents have experienced crime

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

Source: RKG Housing Market Analysis

Housing stock

• Average assessed value for all buildings in study area is $47,700
• Average value for residential buildings in study area is $34,300
• The citywide average value for residential buildings is $118,500
• 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?

Implications of flood hazards

• Over half of the neighborhood is vulnerable to storms and

flooding

• Trent Court: 65% of land within flood zones
• Craven Terrace: 28% of land within flood zones
• Many vacant lots are located within flood zones in the northern

part of area – federal money cannot be spent in flood zones

• Vacant lots near Queen and Broad Streets are opportunities for

new mixed-income housing and other uses outside flood-prone areas How can we increase resilience to flooding in future development?

Getting around - residents

• Only 1 in 3 residents has a car
• 1 in 5 (22%) cited transportation 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 options
• 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- transit

• 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 Does the bus go where people need it to? What are

• ther barriers to using it?

CARTS will be conducting a Needs Analysis to help define alternatives for future growth and expansion

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

Getting around- walking & biking

• 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?

Survey highlights

Resident Survey

• Priority improvements at Trent Court
• Private back yards
• Larger units
• More attractive buildings
• Priority improvements at Craven Terrace
• Attractive landscaping
• Playgrounds
• BBQ pits/picnic area

Employment/ Financial Stability

• Only 2 in 5 (38%) of adults are employed full or part-time

Nearly half (48%) of households have earned income

• 1 in 5 (19%) of adults are unemployed/looking for work

Biggest barriers: Transportation (46%), Affordable childcare (31%), No job experience (21%) 1 in 5 (18%) adults does not have a high school degree

• 1 in 3 (30%) of adults are unemployed/unable to work
• Credit Repair: 2nd most cited service needed right now

Health

• 37% of Heads of Household rate their health as fair to

very poor; 34% among Other Adults

• High usage of Carolina East Emergency Room (34%)
• Nutrition and physical fitness programs ranked third

and fourth among the services needed right now

• Lack of parks/playgrounds (11%) and lack of indoor

recreation facilities (7%) ranked among top three barriers to being more physically active

Children and Youth

Early Learning: 1 in 3 children under age 5 (31%) are not enrolled Special Needs: 14% of households have a child with special needs Parental Engagement: 1 in 5 parents (20%) never participate in PTO Out-of-school-time programs: Only 26% of households have children who participate

• 56% of households have children interested in future

participation

• Biggest barriers: transportation (40%); lack of awareness

(27%); schedule (20%)

Resident Survey

Where do residents get information?

• 3 in 4 from the NBHA meetings/newsletters
• 3 in 5 from word of mouth (friends/neighbors)
• 1 in 3 from the Resident Association

15% participate in church groups/faith based organizations 3 in 4 want to participate in a CNI resident advisory group

Residents value their neighbors

• 37% say neighbors are what they like most about the neighborhood

Ongoing Neighborhood Survey

• Neighborhood and public housing residents are similar

and share same concerns and priorities

• Most respondents have lived in the community

between 1-5 years (38%) or more than 20 years (30%).

• 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%).

• What respondents liked most about the neighborhood:
• An affordable place to live (73%)
• Churches in the community (57%)

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Ongoing Neighborhood Survey

• Educational attainment levels are relatively low and 76%

have annual household incomes of less than $20,000.

• The two largest barriers to full-time employment were a

lack of necessary job skills/education (63%) and transportation issues (50%).

• If a household had children under the age of 5, most did

not have them enrolled in a preschool program.

• If a household had school-aged children, most were

satisfied/very satisfied with their children’s school.

• Most felt that their health was only good or fair (83%).

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Ongoing 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%)
• Most respondents get information about the neighborhood

through word of mouth (72%) followed by television (60%)

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Next steps

Establish Goals and Outcomes

• Further analysis of data
• Focus groups and Task Force mtgs
• Service priorities and gaps
• Neighborhood opportunities
• Housing design studies:
• Trent Court: redevelopment
• pportunity in northwest corner
• utside flood zone
• Broad, Pollock, and Queen Streets

have opportunities for redevelopment

 Highest visibility/biggest impact  Mixed-income  Outside flood zones

Focusing our effort

• What sites are most

appropriate and feasible for redevelopment?

• What is right building scale in

different areas?

• What building types are

feasible?

• What neighborhood

improvement efforts should we focus on?

CNI Planning Structure

New Bern Housing Authority & City of New Bern

(w/ EJP, Planning Coordinator) NBHA (w/ EJP)

Housing Lead

NBHA (Tharesa Lee)

People Lead

City of New Bern (w/ Swiss Bear)

Neighborhood Lead

Craven Community College

Education Lead

Craven County Schools

Education Lead

• Adult Education
• Employment

Readiness

Steering Committee

(CNI Partners+)

• Healthcare
• Health Self-

Sufficiency

• K-12 Ed
• Early

Childhood Ed

Possible Focus Groups Focus Groups

• Transportation
• Safety & Crime
• Recreation & Green Space
• Economic Development