Citizen Comments from First Workshop

Group Number Three

Facilitator: Molly McKay Recorder: Pallavi Kalia

Question #1—imagining 10 years from now…

Proudest of having kept:

• Architectural features
• Diversity ECD/racial
• Same people

Change most pleased about:

• Revitalized vacant parcels/property
• Reduction in crime (all sorts)
• Increase in retail (clothing, neighborhood serving)
• Beautification (trash/ planting)
• Maintenance
• Good family/community sense
• Equal participation
• Reputation/image as a destination
• Better communication of history
• Parking and pedestrian friendly
• Specific type of retail (not auto)

Question #2—Possibly increase density on some sites?

• Issue of scale
• (Ghetto effect) mixed within area
• Preserve existing, but no high rise
• Smaller pockets (interspersed)
• Affordable housing means increase in parking requirement too

Question #3—Assistance needed to support businesses:

• Tax abatement / Section 8 for small businesses
• Counseling/help for small businesses
• Incentives for “Greening”
• Assurance that existing businesses are accounted for/retained
• Ways to assist existing restaurants
• Marketing effort to show what’s existing in Shaw
• Market analysis for area
• Diversity in retail types