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EXHIBIT A <br />COMPREHENSIVE PLAN PRIORITY 3: <br />NEIGHBORHOOD IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM <br />Target Area Investment Fund: The creation of a fund to improve HUD defined target areas by <br />leveraging future funding opportunities within the CDBG Target Areas to provide for more attractive <br />application submittals with Harris County Community Services (HCCS). One could argue that sucha <br />program exists already with the Northside Neighborhood program account. It would likely need additional <br />resources for the next round of HCCS CIP related project applications due in 2017. Such a plan is <br />currently being developed for Public Works Infrastructure in the Northside but could also include Parks <br />infrastructure as well. <br />Advocacy Based Code Enforcement Program: Various constituencies respond to strategies to <br />increase the effectiveness of code enforcement differently. This program would work proactively to create <br />the necessary alliances to educate constituencies, enlist the help of the neighborhood leadership, where <br />available, to abate problem issues, and create practices on the ground that ensure community support <br />going forward. To abate contagious blight quickly and deploy cost-mitigating prevention of serious <br />violations before owners and occupants lose the will and the means to take responsibility for their <br />property. Laws and policies should be constructed as both points of opportunity and points of <br />obstruction. In the Strategic Plan this was referred to as the carrot vs. the stick approach. Example: the <br />recommended Tennant Association item falls under the broad category of a Code Enforcement Advocacy <br />as a proactive educational and organizationalapproach (carrot). <br /> <br />