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• Implementation Plan ....................................................................................................... .~ Chapter 13 • Actively pursue grants such as the Governor's Criminal Justice Policy grants available for crime and drug programs. • Require fire department personnel to attend educational activities, training seminars, and conferences to maintain an awareness of new ideas, equipment, and trends in the profession. • Regularly review service areas and build additional substations as necessary to maintain a 1.5-mile service area radius from each, substation.. Consider the addition of a new or relocation of an existing fire station. to serve the western area of the community with an adequate response time. • Continue the City's partnership with the Harris County Library System to address the needs and concerns for the Edith Wilson Public Library. • Create a more prominent information center located in City Hall for ease of use by the public. • Provide a minimum of an additional 8,472 square feet at the current City Hall to accommodate the City's current and projected needs. • Research parhiership arrangements with private companies to develop a hotel and convention center facility. • Consider cooperative arrangements with surrounding area hospitals to establish a satellite medical care facility. • Continue to maintain a comprehensive training facility for police/fire/EMS to train all personnel to be qualified for immediate, humane, and sympathetic treatment of all citizens. Major Actions: Residential Development • Provide information to homeowners for correcting code violations and substandard conditions. • Create provisions in the City's development ordinances to enable the development of large-lot executive neighborhoods. • Consider incentives to encourage development of affordable housing on existing vacant parcels. • Identify pilot housing rehabilitation replacement projects to be funded by governmental agencies or private industry. • Continue to actively pursue demolition of substandard and abandoned structures. • Consider amending the subdivision regulations to require open space easements around the perimeter of residential subdivisions that abut nonresidential land uses; screening requirements providing for opaque screens between incompatible land uses; increased residential lot depths when adjacent to nonresidential land use; and additional building and parking lot setbacks when adjacent to or abutting residential land use. • Consider abandoning a portion of the rights-of--way of selected streets at their point of terminus within the city's original town area to create more definable neighborhood boundaries and to manage the flow of traffic through neighborhoods. Utilize the reclaimed area as public open space or as a neighborhood maintained green space. • Consider a neighborhood grant program for neighborhood initiated enhancement projects such as beautification of vacant lots, landscaping, infrastructure improvement, and other enhancements. • Encourage developers to establish neighborhood associations to provide assurance of long term care and maintenance of common areas and neighborhood amenities and facilities. _ Page 13-11 La Porte Comprehensive Plan Update .......................................................................................