Blue Grass Community Foundation
East End Small Area Plan Goals and Actions
DRAFT!!!! East End Goals
The Goals of the East End Small Area Plan are designed to serve as the social and economic drivers for the planning and redevelopment of the neighborhood. The East End Plan is about improving the quality of life through a set of goals that can be used to guide planning and development decisions that will have an impact on the area.
The goals are about housing and its affordability, creating a viable and sustainable retail area, creating local employment opportunities, community and social service facilities that reflect the needs of the neighborhood and its residents, safe and attractive public spaces, efficient and safe multiple modes of transportation, and a green and environmentally friendly neighborhood.
1. Recognize, restore, and preserve the historic, ethnic, and cultural character and resources of East End.
2. Create housing that is affordable, accessible, and attractive to a diverse range of people.
3. Promote new commercial development to create a mix of uses that respects and enhances the residential neighborhoods of the East End.
4. Promote opportunities to leverage positive impacts and encourage
compatibility from civic investments.
5. Create a neighborhood where daily needs can be met by walking, cycling or transit.
6. Enhance and enliven the streetscape with landscaping, art, and signage.
7. Ensure compatibility and encourage a complimentary relationship between adjacent land uses through strong urban design.
8. Ensure that safety is a top priority through the utilization of Safe by Design Planning Guidelines.
9. Protect and enhance personal health and the local environment
10. Utilize technology to connect the neighborhood to itself and to the world.
11. Utilize community organizations to increase social capital in the neighborhood.
12. Grow a locally based economy that offers opportunities to all residents.
13. Create a green and environmentally acceptable neighborhood through the recognition of the interdependence of environmental, economic, and social equity concerns.
East End
DRAFT!!! Top Ten Neighborhood Planning Priorities
Although the neighborhood would like to see all parts of the plan implemented, certain issues are considered to be of critical and immediate importance. The East End planning team through community input from several intensive meetings identified the issues of highest priority to the neighborhood. The following elements of the plan are Top Ten Neighborhood Priorities:
1. Create an East End Community Development Corporation to guide the
continued redevelopment of the area according to this plan.
2. A suitable, community-led plan for the future of the Charles Young
Center.
3. Completion of the restoration of the Lyric Theatre.
4. Beautification of community identified areas.
5. Request that a historic survey be completed for identified areas.
6. Design and constructed signage identifying the East End, as well as a
banner program for 3rt Street and Elm Tree Lane.
7. Create and implement an infrastructure plan for repairing sidewalks,
streets, and stormwater.
8. Provide more street lighting.
9. Implement a tree-planting program.
10. Completion of the Isaac Murphy Memorial Garden and its connection to
the Legacy Trail along 3rd Street.
The Goals of the East End Small Area Plan are designed to serve as the social and economic drivers for the planning and redevelopment of the neighborhood. The East End Plan is about improving the quality of life through a set of goals that can be used to guide planning and development decisions that will have an impact on the area.
The goals are about housing and its affordability, creating a viable and sustainable retail area, creating local employment opportunities, community and social service facilities that reflect the needs of the neighborhood and its residents, safe and attractive public spaces, efficient and safe multiple modes of transportation, and a green and environmentally friendly neighborhood.
1. Recognize, restore, and preserve the historic, ethnic, and cultural character and resources of East End.
2. Create housing that is affordable, accessible, and attractive to a diverse range of people.
3. Promote new commercial development to create a mix of uses that respects and enhances the residential neighborhoods of the East End.
4. Promote opportunities to leverage positive impacts and encourage
compatibility from civic investments.
5. Create a neighborhood where daily needs can be met by walking, cycling or transit.
6. Enhance and enliven the streetscape with landscaping, art, and signage.
7. Ensure compatibility and encourage a complimentary relationship between adjacent land uses through strong urban design.
8. Ensure that safety is a top priority through the utilization of Safe by Design Planning Guidelines.
9. Protect and enhance personal health and the local environment
10. Utilize technology to connect the neighborhood to itself and to the world.
11. Utilize community organizations to increase social capital in the neighborhood.
12. Grow a locally based economy that offers opportunities to all residents.
13. Create a green and environmentally acceptable neighborhood through the recognition of the interdependence of environmental, economic, and social equity concerns.
East End
DRAFT!!! Top Ten Neighborhood Planning Priorities
Although the neighborhood would like to see all parts of the plan implemented, certain issues are considered to be of critical and immediate importance. The East End planning team through community input from several intensive meetings identified the issues of highest priority to the neighborhood. The following elements of the plan are Top Ten Neighborhood Priorities:
1. Create an East End Community Development Corporation to guide the
continued redevelopment of the area according to this plan.
2. A suitable, community-led plan for the future of the Charles Young
Center.
3. Completion of the restoration of the Lyric Theatre.
4. Beautification of community identified areas.
5. Request that a historic survey be completed for identified areas.
6. Design and constructed signage identifying the East End, as well as a
banner program for 3rt Street and Elm Tree Lane.
7. Create and implement an infrastructure plan for repairing sidewalks,
streets, and stormwater.
8. Provide more street lighting.
9. Implement a tree-planting program.
10. Completion of the Isaac Murphy Memorial Garden and its connection to
the Legacy Trail along 3rd Street.
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