Which of the above issues do you feel are most urgent

Stakeholder Meeting Discussion Results

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  J - because our neighborhood is the only intact urban neighborhood in the City of Atlanta. Live in close proximity to neighbors causing sympathetic attitude.
  
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  Develop neighborhood signage ordinance.
  
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  Enhancing walkability and parks & greenspace.
  
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  Provide more transportation alternatives. Not huge buses. 198 come through a day.
  
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  Crime and walkability are issues that go together
  
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  E - Greater mix of uses. No professional services. Opportunities with GA Ave. and the perimeter of the neighborhoods.
  
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  E - Industrial Sites.
  
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  Crime is getting better. Police posted in the park for safety.
  
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  Park clean up
  
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  B. lead to E., H., C and F (top choices)
  
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  Information sharing and education on what to do to reduce crime.
  
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  Getting the trash cans under control before spring
  
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  Greater mix of uses, lacked for 20 years
  
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  Longer working hours of retail
  
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  Live in close proximity to neighbors causing
  
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  Redev. has helped reduce crime.
  
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  Safety/reducing crime
  
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  Retaining mixed income - to have different voices in the neighborhood making decisions.
  
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  E. lead to B, C. (Needing more services and making neighborhood walkable)
  
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  Property taxes don't give us enough police protection
  
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  Each house shouldn’t have to pay money for extra security
  
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  Difficult implementation of land use plan
  
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  Daytime is a major time for petty theft, night time is for car burglary.
  
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  Enhancing green/walkable space can contribute to reducing crime
  
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  Commercial Development Opportunities 1. Ga Ave. 2. Memorial Dr. 3. Glenwood Connector
  
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  D. Infill Development affects all other design-related features within the area
  
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  Only certain blocks can participate
  
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  Not a lot of free land for higher density infill, but duplex and up would be good
  
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  Disparity of street lighting throughout the neighborhood
  
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  Crime is improving and is believed to be better than in other communities.
  
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  Scattered affordable housing would be better than open area
  
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  Greater mix of land uses helps everything
  
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  Combination solution, Oakland Cemetary as entry to GP
  
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  Make the neighborhood more walkable
  
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  Is street lighting an issue. Lighting could be improved, though.
  
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  Fix the sidewalks
  
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  More lighting on the street
  
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  Decorative lighting. Lighting in Park could be brighter, esp. lots.
  
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  The petty daytime stuff will be taken care of
  
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  It feels like there is a gap between values going up and this should not be the time for high gentrification
  
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  Enforce urban design guidelines
  
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  H. is key. Crime is keeping business out and there is a perception that Grant Park is a high crime area
  
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  Don't have authority to enforce design guidelines
  
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  Interest in retaining mixed income housing. Variation and diversity keep a community growing. remains interesting.
  
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  Allocation of police resources in Zone 3 is not seen as equitable
  
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  More police patrols
  
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  Higher end communities have less street life.
  
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  More police patrols
  
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  Trans corridor using Grant St, alternate fuel vehicles--alt to trolley, connect to rail loop
  
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  Realistically the "boat has been missed" in affordable housing
  
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  E. is important in appropriate locations to prevent negative impacts on neighbor
  
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  Disparity of street lighting throughout neighborhood
  
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  Mix of services - shops close by, services available in walking distance. Especially the Memorial corridor because zoned commercial. Mixed use development. Improvement in the schools and the school system.
  
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  More visible police patrols
  
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  Creative design will help get affordable housing into the area
  
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  Taxes make preserving income dist. difficult.
  
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  Enforcement of building code regulations to get ride of some of the trash (couches, sinks, construction debris)
  
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  Canopy over overpass
  
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  Minimum req. for affordable housing std.
  
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  Construction debris left on the curb - not being picked up
  
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  Neighborhood still needs to be veh usable
  
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  Some parts feel more secure than others - Oakland feels safer
  
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  No code enforcement to prevent renovation debris from being left outside
  
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  Walkablity in regards to fresh produce and coffee type retail
  
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  The park!! Going back to the 50s and 60s when "on the brink", the park and zoo kept the amenity in the area
  
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  Area is surrounded by poorer areas
  
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  Having a greater connection to MARTA
  
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  Auto lien placed if the city has to pick-up const. debris
  
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  Using the park and cem. as destination
  
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  Still have to make sure alarms are set
  
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  Development of destinations within the park
  
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  Property tax relief is important. People already there should be able to keep their homes.
  
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  Safety has gotten much better over the past 10 years
  
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  Commercial services, particularly a place to buy food
  
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  Streetscape Boulevard and add improvements, convert to three-lane (turn lane in middle). Add bike paths.
  
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  Income tax relief trigger legis. in the works.
  
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  Rehabing sidewalks, having contiguous sidewalks
  
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  Retain mixed income within the area--b/c the neighborhood association doesn't have broad participation from mixed income residents--bringing dif. groups of people on board
  
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  Sidewalk repairs, retaining walls, curb repairs - elderly can't afford or coordinate it - city program to help out those who can't afford to do these improvements
  
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  Commercial est. are very important. Grocery store. There is not one.
  
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  Masterplan for coordination of all ideas, with strong land use connection
  
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  Retaining the mixed-income character of the neighborhood - need to get ahead before out-pricing the area. Maintain the diversity of the people in the community. Greater mix of uses
  
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  Incremental green space (small amounts, pocket parks, planting strips
  
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  Social aspects of shopping. Interaction while shopping.
  
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  The populace has gotten more transient so people don't know their neighbors
  
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  Connecting neighborhood with the rest of Atlanta with bike trails
  
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  Make streets safer going to MLK Center
  
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  Find a way to get a small scale grocery in the area.
  
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  Encouraging appropriate infill, vulnerable resource within the community
  
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  Mixed uses - make the area more walkable, comes with the improvements in mixed use development
  
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  Pervious surface between curb and private property - tree preservation assistance
  
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  Some streets have created their own neighborhood watches (informal) to respond to crime
  
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  Trees along the curb don't have enough root space
  
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  Favorite things are walking to Grant Central and walking to restaurant.
  
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  Other issue: use revenue from outsiders, put back into park
  
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  Lack of pronounced boundaries, have definite boundaries to neighborhood
  
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  Slow the traffic down. All interior residential streets should be 15 mph.
  
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  Getting new business owners to feel comfortable in the neighborhood.
  
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  Enhancing the role of schools - concern for the quality of schools -- King Middle School
  
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  Preserving the diversity of the neighborhood, many improvements compliment one another.
  
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  Suggests leaving porch light on all day and night as a crime deterrent
  
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  Traffic laws enforced at Boulevard and Glenwood - turning movements
  
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  King Middle School’s poor quality is forcing families with kids to leave when older
  
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  Traffic signals should be coordinated throughout the whole country
  
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  Schools need to be an anchor for the neighborhood
  
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  Would not like to see big chains in Grant Park.
  
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  Community area should be developed with icon for identification
  
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  CVS has a lot of crime at that est.
  
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  Use park as focal point of redev
  
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  The Parks - the relationship of the neighborhood to the park resemble each other
  
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  Parks create a good perception and perception is what keeps an area alive
  
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  Keep historic district design with dev of commercial space
  
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  More lighting in park, in keeping with historic
  
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  Park lighting like Ren Park
  
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  Alley - whether they are public or private - maintenance - resolve the issue so that they are maintained properly
  
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  Memorial drive area has potential for commercial.
  
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  Investment in the park by the local area leads to more investment by owners in property or more people want to move in
  
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  Mem. Drive bldgs are selling. is an entrance to the community. Good traffic and is changing.
  
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  Historic Districts across the country that have a polished park are leaders
  
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  Good to have a place to stop on the way home.
  
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  Group feels that it is a new day at city hall understanding the necessity of the park but need $$
  
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  CVS is not connected to other commercial space-->people loiter, crime and pan handling.
  
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  Piedmont Park conservancy model between residents and city would be good
  
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  Item g seems to be a way to achieve other issues
  
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  Drugstore is not a welcoming place. Too much brick and no glass.
  
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  Idea of design guidelines is not clear, but commercial guidelines are more important than individual properties.
  
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  Little places in the community are more important than in outlying area.
  
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  The park needs to be a managed facility - it is a TOURIST ATTRACTION
  
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  Bringing a better retail mix to the neighborhood
  
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  Zoning issues that fit the notions of the neighborhood ideals.
  
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  Areas seems to be getting more suburban - people don't know their neighbors
  
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  Commercial / business development - see useful businesses (mix) restaurants & novelty
  
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  Grant Street should be more like San Francisco using alternative fuel vehicles, and more pedestrian friendly.
  
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  Glenwood needs traffic calming
  
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  Property taxes are not inline with the services.
  
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  Commercial nodes.
  
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  Virginia Highlands thoughts: escalating costs and no diversity.
  

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  Dev an effective land use plan that would accommodate commercial
  
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  Concerned about industrial land not covered by historic zoning. Developing in high density, which equals congestion. High traffic counts.
  
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  Orman and Grant is a block with commercial potential
  
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  Commercial and transportation corridors cause through traffic.
  
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  Memorial Drive with Capital Homes as a development area
  
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  Detailed description of land use
  
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  Boulevard, Memorial, and GA Ave. need attention with traffic calming.
  
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  Superior Rigging as a potential site for commercial dev
  
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  Park Ave. needs planting islands for traffic calming.
  
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  Find a site for land for shopping mainly grocery
  
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  Property Tax Issues
  
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  Have quality streets
  
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  Concern over future plans for the Zoo, especially parking
  
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  Boulevard Sidney to Boulevard --- develop corridor and nodes Sidney and Cherokee/ Cherokee and Atlanta/ Southside of Atlanta Avenue (vacant land)
  
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  Most of Grant Park is dependent on street parking
  
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  Tie in to other neighborhoods---Summerhill
  
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  Will paid parking at Zoo cause patrons to park on street to avoid parking fee?
  
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  Identify community gateways: Boulevard, Cherokee, Hill
  
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  Will there be better communication between Grant Park residents and the Zoo?
  
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  Do not want the area to become another Virginia-Highlands
  
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  Need to appropriate commercial development - community service, businesses, not industrial
  
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  Belief that the Conservancy will help the neighborhood deal with the Zoo
  
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  Industrial should be somewhere else
  
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  Retail and commercial services for the neighborhood: grocery store, coffee shop
  
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  Revitalize Memorial corridor - more desirable commercial, no truck parking, auto-related businesses - more grocery and pedestrian friendly
  
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  Tourist opportunities are there, but just need safe linkages
  
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  Cluster commercial/residential businesses
  
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  Boulevard corridor - streetscape, traffic control, bike lanes, landscaping - both commercial and residential areas from c-town to the prison
  
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  Concern that the city's master plan for Grant Park is sitting on shelf for years
  
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  Control the traffic, boom boxes, noise enforcement
  
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  Identify anchor businesses on the corners of Memorial and Boulevard
  
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  Placing better operations and patrols in the park right now to protect the resource
  
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  Grant Park is designed as a pedestrian park and should remain so
  
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  High property [taxes] encourages housing and condos, but doesn't offer services
  
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  Vacant lots that are overgrown - nobody claims them and they continue to be overgrown
  
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  Cherokee - S. on Memorial before I-20 - left hand apt. complex, fits in with the single family homes, good example of mixed use. Behind the Orthodox Church high-density unit mixed in, they are nicely mixed into the community. Balance between rentals & owned
  
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  Team needs to also be aware of master plan for Memorial Dr
  
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  Focusing on commercial and industrial zone--having a positive impact on neighborhood
  
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  Vacant property - Kalb Street - needs to be dealt with
  
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  Group wants to see action from the plan (formally approved or from this week) is actually implemented quickly
  
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  Schools - great schools enhance the neighborhood value
  
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  New development needs to blend in with the neighborhood.
  
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  Coalition with neighboring groups make NPU stronger
  
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  Traffic on Boulevard - it is dangerous without barrier between sidewalk and street
  
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  Feel the need for more in-neighborhood service areas - small store, doctor's office, etc.
  
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  Traffic through Grant Park is terrible, esp. truck traffic.
  
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  Boulevard Ave dev. traffic control
  
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  Boulevard needs traffic calming
  
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  Want to keep development in the same style and feel of the existing/historic structures
  
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  Need alternative truck routes. Trucks destroying trees. Noise and pollution.
  
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  The team should look at the park - pond redevelopment?
  
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  Adopt "cool community" guidelines
  
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  Atlanta Ave. , Boulevard, truck traffic.
  
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  Ban billboards
  
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  Cherokee and Sidney are fast streets.
  
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  Maintain development that encourages income diversity
  
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  Need for traffic calming.
  
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  Who can you call about commercial truck traffic?
  
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  Cruising has decreased. No cruising ordinance and sign appeared and traffic has decreased.
  
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  Cruising is troublesome in the summer.
  
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  Park is not supposed to be used for large events/festivals
  
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  Speed bumps and stop signs.
  
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  Festivals don't enforce the rules of the park
  
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  Property taxes
  
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  Sidewalks and storm drains needed!
  
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  Trash covered sidewalks. Pick issues.
  
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  Street maintenance (potholes) needs to be increased.
  
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  Sidewalks are dangerous - example Pavilion St off Cherokee - stretch does not exist
  
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  Special trash pickup is not recognized yet.
  
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  Sidewalks - garbage trucks are cutting corners and rutting sidewalks
  
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  Cannot walk on the sidewalks--broken, trash.
  
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  Trashmen dump trash on street.
  
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  The infill and development potential along the Memorial Drive Corridor
  
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  Storm drains need to be cleaned out. People rake leaves into gutter.
  
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  Memorial Drive has opportunity for viable business - 6 Ft Under & Ria's
  
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  Caging to prevent clogging of storm drains.
  
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  Taxes and home ins. are high. Not feeling that the services = fees paid.
  
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  The bridges over I-20 - make them pedestrian friendly - they are the middle of the neighborhood and they visually disconnect
  
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  Street light times crossing Georgia
  
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  The light at Hill and the Freeway - example of not accommodating residents
  
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  Rather than waiting for people to come in and rent businesses - how to attract
  
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  Structure for CDP/Front Funds
  
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  We are the largest Historic District in Atlanta
  
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  Have plenty of sidewalks just need maintenance
  
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  Attractiveness & rehab of the Ga. Ave corridor to Turner Field.
  
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  Want the plan to be good and have some teeth to enforce the plan
  
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  Parking? There is not enough w/ commercial est.
  
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  Retain residential use in interior areas, with commercial areas on exterior
  
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  Neighborhood review for commercial dev. and impact.
  
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  Development of Grant Park community voice
  
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  Parking in front of house is good--sense of community.
  
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  Memorial Drive Development --- Mixed use!
  
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  Managed approach for the area or a CDC and offer incentives to bring in the right types of mixed use.
  
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  Parking Impact studies @ Cherokee and Glenwood
  
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  Revitalize retail strip along Georgia Ave. near the stadium.
  
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  Traffic -- creating alternative traffic (bike, walk, train)
  
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  More inviting route to and from parking to relieve impact on the community (for new and existing bus.)
  
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  How can we share the tourist attractions that we have with others without being swamped - off site parking, tram, MARTA linkage, deduct ticket price from transportation, charge a parking fee, encourage people to take MARTA, putting an ad in the paper
  
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  Successful bus line, better connections with other transportation options.
  
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  Parking on the bridge is possible.
  
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  Ambassador Program or police to walk around or bike cops. Need the program Midtown Alliance Blue
  
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  Tax Credit for cleaning up your own property
  
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  Plan to deal with traffic flow from Glenwood Park development
  
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  Reconnecting streets over I-20
  
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  Money earned at the park needs to be reinvested in the park
  
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  Zoning doesn't seem to control dev pattern properly
  
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  Disparity in sidewalk maintenance - owner maintained (some people care, others don't)
  

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  More affordable housing along Memorial Drive - a good place for infill
  
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  Separate recreation and greenspace uses. Parking is an issue for those attending recreation events. Have to pay to park on your own street. Zoo/ picnic activities cause parking nightmare from Memorial Day to Labor Day.
  
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  Creation of a medium sized Publix or Kroger to shop
  
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  Find a spot for good walkable shopping
  
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  Grant Park is looked at as place that people want to get to while visiting the zoo, park, etc. It should be looked at as a place where people live and realize that those people need to get to other places in Atlanta.
  
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  Would like the zoo to create shuttle service from Turner Stadium parking.
  
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  MARTA should allow residents more spaces at MLK station parking.
  
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  Vacant lot at MLK station should be zoo, Cyclorama, and park MARTA stop.
  
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  Tunnel at MARTA station is very pedestrian UNfriendly. Should create skywalk.
  
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  Improving schools
  
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  Developing a good middle school
  
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  Developing a middle school
  
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  Rodent issues, especially in school
  
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  Schools are an important component part of the community retentnion
  
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  Lighting throughout the community
  
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  Speed limit applied to zone 3, and thorughout
  
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  Safety to walk within the neighborhood
  
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  Design style that would compliment good safety
  
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  Community subsidizes small stores for walkabilty
  
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  Creation of community center
  
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  Piedmont Park, have a mix use
  
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  More diverse businesses
  
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  Good schools and commercial development
  
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  Pool and community center in park updated
  
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  Charter School great, but Jr. High and High school need help
  
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  Someone to pick up trash full time
  
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  The house at Rosela and Blvd
  
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  Grocery store
  
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  1950 and 60 apartment buildings on Park Ave and Blvd
  
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  No cell phone towers
  
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  Quality soccerfFields for youth
  
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  Community input for dev ideas
  
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  Enforce noise ordinances
  
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  Alternative sites are being considered for greenspace
  
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  Active recreational greenspace
  
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  South side of Boulevard - towards Mead Street we need a red light district
  
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  Walkability and alternative transportation outside of MARTA
  
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  Control property taxes they are getting out of hand
  
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  Truck traffic needs to be addressed (crossing Boulevard and Moreland)
  
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  South side of the neighborhood close to the horse farm should be park area.
  
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  Sidewalks are not in good shape---have city address the sidewalk repair
  
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  Committed residents to Grant Park who may be seniors on fixed income cannot afford to live here
  
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  SAFETY--lighting
  
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  Not enough resources for what the taxes are growing to
  
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  Police visibility
  
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  Enforcement of park regulations. Should not throw out trash, hot coal ashes, etc.
  
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  Encourage neighborhood needs dev, stores, esp. along Memorial Dr.
  
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  No tract sub development
  
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  Preserve buildings that had neighborhood shops, without the forced number of parking. Allow for services and shops before rezoning to residential.
  
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  Remove the eyesores (swimming pool - example) from the park
  
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  Improve safety or perception
  
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  Needs a pedestrian friendly link to the central city and capitol area.
  
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  Restoration of original plan for tree canopy
  
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  Would like to see the fountains reinstated
  
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  Preserve the integrity and look of the neighborhood.
  
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  Utilize and convert existng greenspace
  
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  Signage should reflect HISTORIC GRANT PARK, then the zoo and the Cyclorama. Give Grant Park more identity.
  
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  Expand parks elsewhere to reduce impact on Grant Park
  
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  Improved streetscape all over
  
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  Some kind of marker - gateways streets - for example, the arch over Chinatown in San Francisco
  
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  Something that announces the neighborhood - some kind of edifice
  
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  Better pedestrian access and safer cross walks - around the park and Boulevard
  
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  Shrink the zoo and increase the park
  
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  Move the zoo out of the park
  
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  Create linkages of the historical and cultural sites - Grant Park, Oakland Cem., Fort Walker, Grant Mansion
  
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  Revitalize Fort Walker - restore and it and preserve it - observation tower
  
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  Street sweeping
  
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  More enforcement of the decisions that are made - what good is the UDC process?
  
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  Corner of Sidney and Cherokee – it’s a hazard there - traffic problems
  
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  Being able to feel that we can walk to Turner Field safer
  
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  Relationships are KEY - be more inclusive of finding who ALL the residents are
  
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  Maybe create more diverse small groups from all scattered parts of neighborhood
  
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  Bike lanes
  
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  Sidewalks should be repaired with like materials.
  
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  Concern over failing of neighborhood store (Kelly's)
  
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  Community picnicing
  
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  Reroute trucks that are forced to use Boulevard to get to industrial multi-modal facility
  
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  For the city to resume sweeping the streets
  
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  Less truck and loud city service vehicles using Grant Park and Hill / Atlanta Ave as cut through
  
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  People who are to be attracted to the NPU seem so mean to each other
  
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  What would you recommend for improvements to the Metropolitan Council of Christian Women building on Boulevard? Now issue, architect taking ideas now.
  
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  Better (safe) access to public transit might help reduce the unsafe feelings of the pedestrian areas
  
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  Runoff in the park is an issue.
  
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  Greenspace on top of new structures
  

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  The quality of life is being diminished by the lower income being pushed out
  
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  Truly ugly house on Boulevard caused historic zoning.
  
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  When the city had less money they even had people maintaining park, now not enough patrol - GONE
  
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  Gas station on Memorial has a Rapid Temp (day labor firm) with vagrant problem. Neighborhood behind gas station has high crime rate.
  
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  Embezzlement
  
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  Fraud
  
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  Mismanagement!
  
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  PEOPLE THROWING THEIR CHARCOAL ON THE OLD TREES!!!!!
  
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  Density ... all housing units to have street frontage
  
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  No gated community
  
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  Non-conformance with design regulations
  
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  No subdivision names should have to seek approval
  
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  Home Avenue house that is being built now
  
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  All areas should be able to be traveled through
  
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  Commercial encroachment in residential areas
  
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  Grid pattern of roadways to remain as an important dev factor
  
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  Don't want to see auto repair shops, huge multifamily projects, high density projects
  
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  Heavy use commercial i.e. restaurants are in the wrong areas
  
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  Property tax increases are punishing people who wish to LIVE HERE not just these people who are investing
  
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  Use needs to be in appropriate areas
  
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  Encourages safety to have commercial and restaurants within neighborhood
  
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  High density projects - Mead Street, Fuller Glue Factory, Victory House property, Eagle development / Superior Rigging, Custer Avenue subdivision, Green Street properties - don't want these
  
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  Moreland Ave development blockade
  
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  The abandonment of properties along Boulevard
  
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  Parking that is inappropriate to the area.
  
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  Condos across from Glenwood Park are a bad example of new development.
  
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  I-20!!
  
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  CVS building should have been zero lot line instead of a sea of asphalt in front of commercial building
  
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  Too much maintenance of the park - keep it natural looking
  
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  The Cove at Grant Park - clear cut the land
  
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  Queen's Bottom at Glenwood and I-20
  
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  Inappropriate infill development
  
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  Bridge over I-20 at Boulevard - they put in truck turn lanes and scared pedestrians
  
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  Don't like the town homes at Summerhill, are right at the edge of the sidewalk
  
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  Keep the alleys, do not allow them to be built on.
  
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  Grant Terrace shows how community housing is integrated in the neighborhood.
  
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  No prefab homes
  
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  No enforcement of recommendations made to developers - can't enforce the regulations that already exist
  
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  Bad fuel station design
  
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  Remove loop holes in regulations - ex. in-law suite
  
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  Parking lots in front of bldgs
  
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  Inconsistency in business hours
  
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  Setting up the historic district process - they set up to not get the voices of the people not directly engaged in the neighborhood
  
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  Architecture that doesn't fit neighborhood - 465 boulevard - 1960s commercial building
  
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  What is going on around ATL - gated communities or portions - NEVER ALLOW!
  
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  Prevent modular from coming in - Boulevard and Hansell - out of proportion, bad trim
  
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  Auto focused apartments
  
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  Commercial establishments do not have the economic support from the residents (not enough shoppers)
  
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  The piggy back facility should have never happened
  
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  Inappropriate high density
  

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  Midtown - like the vision
  
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  Georgetown, DC - newly developed appreciation for history there.
  
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  Chicago - value their parks
  
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  Seaside as an example of mixed use development
  
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  Ashville, NC - historic district -Munford – it’s cool - homes are impeccable
  
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  Madison, GA – it’s a pretty place
  
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  Virginia Highlands - commercial areas, parks, street traffic, you can walk in Virginia Highlands
  
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  Savannah historic district - off Victory Drive, 19230s and 1940s houses
  
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  Don't like Buckhead – commercialized, too, too commercial
  
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  Greenville, SC -- downtown district: clean, safe, relaxing
  
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  Savannah is model.
  
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  Savannah -- parks, greenspaces, road grid system
  
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  A little to much, but like the walkability of the Virginia Highlands
  
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  Charleston and Savannah are examples. Historic assets.
  
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  Grant Park Consv is helping and making an impact with the city.
  
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  North Charleston -- comprehensive development with private/public partnership
  
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  Neighborhood is having more say in the activities in the park.
  
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  Charleston Historic District
  
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  Flagstaff, AR -- bike lanes in city traffic
  
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  Central Business District of Ashville, NC
  
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  Savannah, walkable - homes open to the street, parks, open space, mixed-uses
  
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  Queen Anne District in Seattle
  
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  Oakpark, Ill -- interior residential, exterior commercial areas
  
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  Charleston, historic preservation, walkable.
  
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  Small Town Concept--Mayberry
  
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  Decatur, mixed use dev., walkable, open community not gated.
  
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  Madison Georgia - strong preservation district and city planner
  
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  Hilton Head
  
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  Inman Park
  
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  Glenwood part
  
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  Cannon Beach, Oregon
  
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  Downtown Savannah
  
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  Morningside along N. Highland, not the crowded bar area between Virginia Ave & Ponce
  
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  Athens
  
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  Savannah's historic district very similar with parks
  
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  Decatur a good model for Grant Park (high taxes but services are good and schools & good transport for WHAT THEY ARE PAYING FOR)
  
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  Montford Park in Ashville, NC - nicely revitalized Victorian area that used to be a slum 20 years ago
  
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  Pinellas Trail, Florida, bike trails, rails to trails. Cycling in Portland Oregon