2000-11-06-2000 Special Called Workshop Meeting

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• ......................................................................................................... Implementation Plan Chapter 13 • Provide technical assistance to neighborhoods in drafting new or reviving lapsed deed restrictions and restrictive covenants. • Determine the feasibility of providing a pocket park or improved public open space in the downtown area for pedestrian congregation, with benches, a gazebo or bandstand, appropriate plantings, historical information, public art, etc. • Consider the creation of a municipal improvement district or public improvement district, which would have the authority to levy an assessment apportioned for downtown improvements. • Increase the City's role in marketing and promotion by establishing "a Convention and Visitors Bureau and by dedicating a lazger share of hoteVmotel tax revenues to local tourism and business promotion activities. • Implement and annually update afive-yeaz Capital Improvements Program (CIP). Major Actions: Implementation • Establish annual review procedures for individual City departments to prepare a report to City Council, concurrent with the annual budget process, on completed or initiated programs and improvements that are in conformance with the Comprehensive Plan. • Establish an ongoing Citizen Action Committee (CAC) to undertake special projects and coordinate citizen activities towazd implementation of the Comprehensive Plan. • Provide an annual report to the citizens of La Porte via the local newspaper or a newsletter regarding Comprehensive Plan accomplishments achieved in the previous year, goals for the upcoming yeaz, and recommended refinements or amendments to the plan. • Assign to a representative of each City department the responsibility of tracking external funding opportunities in their program area, and appoint an overall coordinator for the City. • Conduct annual reviews of the zoning ordinance and subdivision regulations and make amendments as necessary to conform to recent changes in law, common planning practice, and to accommodate local development trends. CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM (CIP) A Capital Improvement Program (CIP) is a five-yeaz planning process that has a direct link to the City's annual budget and appropriation cycles. The City's annual Capital Budget puts the CIP into action. The first year of the Capital Improvements Program becomes the basis for the Capital Budget for that fiscal year, and the remaining four years are the long-term capital programming document. The CIP is updated annually. The current year is eliminated and another year is added at the end so that it will always be a five-year program. The CIP process is a mechanism for analyzing the city financial condition and projecting what it is likely w be in the near future. By undertaking a financial analysis as part of the CIP, the City is able to predict, with reasonable accuracy, its capacity to finance capital improvements after it has paid its basic Page 13-1,t :...................................................................................... La Porte Comprehensive Plan Update