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• Meeting Future Housing Needs / Aging Populations. La Porte's <br />population, like the greater population in general, is growing older. As <br />such, there will be an increased demand for adequate services and <br />resources for "aging in place." Problems in housing will become <br />if <br />increasingly evident now that the first wave of baby -boomers is <br />entering retirement; this is because Post -World War II suburban <br />housing was primarily designed for young working families, not an <br />older population. While the current housing stock in La Porte does <br />not meet the needs of an aging population looking to "age in <br />place," there is an opportunity to facilitate new development (e.g., <br />a New Urbanism development could be one appropriate example <br />as it promotes diverse, compact, mixed-use communities where <br />residential housing areas would have universal design <br />accommodations, low maintenance responsibilities, and walkable <br />connections to La Porte's main commercial areas) that may be <br />better suited to accommodate this demographic shift (see inset). <br />• Unifying the Two La Porte's. During the public participation efforts, <br />repeated conversations turned to the fact that there exists a separation <br />of east and west La Porte. Often it was expressed in simple statements <br />A CONA.M1._N!I'�,.''VISIO. EC)R. IA.. Pw:tRI..I, TEXAS 121012 i.IMAT <br />