Neighborhoods
Planning District III contains thirty-eight neighborhoods. These are mostly low density suburban neighborhoods with some medium and higher density neighborhoods. Most of the development within the District happened in the last fifty years. The residential areas of District III are approaching build-out and few large parcels remain for new development.
The primary issue throughout the District is protecting and maintaining neighborhoods as a healthy, desirable place to live. making existing neighborhoods identifiable. This will help protect the quality of life for the future by allowing a sense of community to be built among neighborhood residents. To make the neighborhoods identifiable, it is necessary to define their boundaries and establish recognizable neighborhood entries.
District III needs connections within and between neighborhoods and connections to the activity centers, schools, parks and other facilities which serve them. It is difficult to make even short trips without the use of an automobile. Adjustments to the local road system of District III are needed to provide connections and minimize through-traffic on streets within neighborhoods.
Each neighborhood needs a place for social gathering, such as a park or school that is accessible to the neighborhood. It will provide places for neighborhood meetings, festivals, markets, yard sales and other events, as well as for informal meeting and gathering. Both indoor and outdoor meeting spaces are needed. Many neighborhoods in the district have an existing school or church that could serve this need.