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Goals for residential development: <br />Consider programs to revitalize and rehabilitate existing housing where needed. <br />Meet the future housing needs by providing for a variety of housing options. <br />Encourage the rehabilitation or replacement of substandard housing. <br />Promote a standard of home ownership encouraging well-maintained residential properties. <br />Preserve the integrity of existing neighborhoods and create livable and safe neighborhood <br />environments. <br />Protect the attractive appearance and environmental quality of existing neighborhoods and make <br />necessary improvements to maintain the value of properties and enhance the quality of life. <br />Beautification and Conservation. <br />Citizens have expressed great interest for enhancing the visual appearance of La Porte and the <br />redevelopment and reinvestment in Downtown, along major corridors and in nonresidential areas. <br />Through public involvement it is apparent that citizens visualize attractive shopping centers, livable <br />neighborhoods, landscaped roadways, pleasant places to walk and an enhanced quality of life. They want <br />successful shopping areas that appeal to shoppers. They see the opportunities in downtown to create a <br />destination that combines a lively entertainment district in a historically significant area, retail stores <br />interspersed with restaurants and professional offices and a blend of residential units as well. <br />Goals for Beautification: <br />Improve the community character to make it a more desirable place to live, work and visit. <br />Improve the aesthetic visual environment through enhancement of site design, signage, roadways, <br />parking areas, open space and landscaping. <br />Invest in Downtown to establish a vibrant mix of places to work, live and visit, with shops, <br />restaurants, entertainment and a variety of dwelling units. <br />Redevelopment Strategy. <br />Urban redevelopment efforts require cooperative action to encourage new and sustained private <br />investment and to provide supporting rehabilitation of public infrastructure. A key part of the process is <br />determining what strategic actions the community should take to achieve its redevelopment goals and <br />objectives. Successful redevelopment will often require cooperation and coordination between agencies at <br />different levels of government as well as non-profit community organizations. This should include <br />coordination of physical improvements with social service programs, which aim to enhance the health and <br />economic capacity of residents in targeted neighborhoods. <br />Redevelopment Goals: <br />Stabilize and improve the quality of neighborhoods and other areas in decline by attracting <br />renewed private investment activity. <br />Revitalize the City’s historic downtown area. <br />Relevant Financial Policy <br />City Council voted to adopt GASB 54 which resulted in the passage of a resolution that measures net <br />financial resources available to finance expenditures of future periods. <br />iv <br /> <br />