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E~ ~,~ Policies The City's policies for places to live are to: 1. Maintain the current mix of single-family and multi-family housing over the next 20-years. 2. Integrate, wherever possible, places to live, work and shop particularly within the Old Highway 8 corridor. 3. Mix densities and housing types within the Old Highway 8 corridor in an effort to improve housing diversity. 4. Ensure that infill development (filling in areas surrounded hy existing housing) is compatible in architectural character and scale with the adjacent housing. S. Employ a scattered site approach to affordable and group housing rather than concentrating them in one or few locations. 6. Continue to actively enforce housing maintenance code requirements. 7. Create opportunities for reinvestment in the existing housing stock in cooperation with Ramsey County . Neighborhoods Objectives for neighborhoods I. To maintain strong and viable neighborhoods as the building blocks for the community. 2. To create a sense or feeling of place within neighborhoods and an identity for neighborhoods to enhance their desirability as places to live. 3. To maintain neighborhood quality,livability and compatibility. In the 1989 Comprehensive Plan, "planning neighborhoods" were identified in order to evaluate land use (see Foreword.) They were generally established using physical or natural features (highways, rail lines, lakes, etc.) as boundaries. These "planning neighborhoods" correlate with the current neighborhood "grid" system used by the police department to organize the neighborhood crime watch program. Neighborhoods are not specifically delineated by the comprehensive plan update, although they are tremendously important components of the urban fabric. Based on the results of two neighborhood planning events, it is evident that the perception of neighborhood varies with each resident. For some, neighborhood is where you recognize neighbors and, perhaps, know their name. For others, neighborhood is the area around and through which you walk. For still others, neighborhood is a larger area where interests are shared (e.g. crime watch neighborhoods) whether or not there is neighbor recognition. To defme neighborhoods strictly on the basis of physical edges (highways, rail lines, lakes, etc.) is, therefore, not reflective of how residents perceive or experience their neighborhood. Things identified as defming neighborhood and giving it character were physical features such as parks and local businesses. Neighborhood events, social gatherings and familiar faces were mentioned as critical elements in defining a neighborhood. In most neighborhoods, parks are seen as the central focus of the neighborhood. The conclusions that seem to be most evident from the neighborhood planning events are as follows: August 4, 1999 New Brighton Comprehensive Plan Page 5.9