Gravois-Jefferson Historic Neighborhoods Plan Benton Park West NE Dutchtown Gravois Park Public Working Meeting #1: People 29 November 2016
Gravois-Jefferson Historic Neighborhoods Plan Community Plan: a public document which ● contains specific proposals for future development and public improvements in a given community. Based off engagement with local residents and ● community leaders, it provides policies and a long-range physical development guide for elected officials and citizens engaged in community development. Project Partners: ● Resident Steering Committee ○ Rise Community Development ○ Dutchtown South Community Corporation ○ Local aldermen and other stakeholders ○
Benton Park West Gravois Park Dutchtown (northeast area) The area is home to approximately 13,000 ● residents, diverse in age, race and socioeconomic status. The planning process will go through Summer ● 2017, and feature multiple public meetings, group focus sessions, one-on-one conversations, and other forms of engagement. The Plan MUST be representative of the rich ● diversity of these neighborhoods. This requires intentional outreach to: Young People ○ People of Color ○ Lower-income Individuals and Families ○
Gravois-Jefferson Historic Neighborhoods Plan PROGRESS UPDATE
Gravois-Jefferson Plan: Public Kick-Off Meeting: November 1, 2016 Previous Meetings Steering Committee Meeting #1: September 29, 2016 Steering Committee Meeting #2: November 10, 2016 Additional Engagement with residents, business owners, local organizations, churches, non-profits, schools, and more.
Gravois-Jefferson Plan: Community Feedback Input from over 120 people in the form of 1,000+ pieces of data have provided the following insights: Key Areas of Focus for the Planning Effort should be: ● Health and Safety Youth and Families Economic Development and Prosperity ○ Mapping and Cataloguing of Community Characteristics show: ● Strengths Opportunities Challenges Diversity in Race, Age, Connect Schools with the Vacant and Abandoned ➔ ➔ ➔ Ethnicity, Lifestyle Community Properties Density Minority-owned Business Crime and Safety ➔ ➔ ➔ Beautiful Architecture Expansion Concerns ➔ Cherokee Street and Community-engagement Employment Opportunity ➔ ➔ ➔ Commercial Areas ● We need to ensure our process is representative of the racial, socioeconomic, and age diversity of these neighborhoods. The process should engage residents and not prioritize outside stakeholders
Gravois-Jefferson Historic Neighborhoods Plan DRAFT VISION STATEMENT
Gravois-Jefferson Plan: Community Vision Word Cloud
Gravois-Jefferson Plan: Draft Vision Statement “ Our vision is for accessible, sustainable, inclusive neighborhoods where families and individuals thrive in a diverse and historically rich, engaged community.”
Gravois-Jefferson Historic Neighborhoods Plan WORKING MEETING #1: PEOPLE
Working Meetings: Timeline During today’s meeting, we will be using the theme of People to study the Planning Focus Areas. We will take each of the ten topics and consider how they impact families and individuals living and working in the area. Our second and third Public Working Meetings will focus on the theme of Housing and Neighborhood . Therefore, we have tailored our conversations to focus on People. Neighborhood: Spring 2017 Housing: Winter 2017 People: Fall 2016
Working Meeting Theme: People During today’s meeting, we will be using the theme of People to study the Planning Focus Areas. We will take each of the ten topics and consider how they impact families and individuals living and working in the area. We will focus the majority of our time on the three areas expressed as highest priorities: 1. Health and Safety 2. Youth and Families 3. Economic Development and Prosperity Other Focus Areas: Education and Training; Housing; Empowerment, Civic Engagement and Equity; Public Space and Urban Landscape; Mobility, Circulation and Transportation; Arts and Culture; Air, Water, Energy, Sanitation and Environment
Working Meeting Theme: Discussion Format for Three Key Focus Areas Discussion Format ● With Whole Group Share what people stated as ○ strengths, opportunities, and challenges related to focus area ○ Deliver data/information on focus area ● In Three Breakout Groups We will focus the majority of our time on the Brainstorm strategies to address the ○ three areas expressed as highest priorities: focus area 1. Health and Safety Discuss existing work addressing ○ 2. Youth and Families the topic 3. Economic Development and Prosperity Define goals and success related to ○ the topic Discussion Format for Other Seven Focus Areas ● There will be stations throughout the room where you can discuss these topics
Health and Safety Focus Area #1 Image Courtesy of STL Public Radio
Health and Safety refers to the mental, emotional, and Health and Safety: physical well being of a person and how they interact with Community Conditions their environment. Strengths Opportunities Challenges Great community Community-based Crime (violent, and ● ● ● gardens with healthy Policing youth-led) food Clean up image Garbage and trash ● ● Restaurants as places of Slow down cars on roads Drug use and trafficking ● ● ● safety and community Disease and obesity ● Guns ● Perceptions of danger ●
Health and Safety: Crime and Safety (2016 vs 2015) Data and Information Concern seems to be highest around Cherokee, ● Chippewa and Meramec Benton Park West ● ○ Robbery down 29% Access to Medical Needs Aggravated assault down 8% ○ ● St. Alexius Hospital in area ○ Burglary down 10% Grace Hill South Health Center, Preferred Family ● Property Crime down 14% ○ Health Clinics, and a Walgreens Healthcare Clinic ● Gravois Park are nearby Robbery up 50% ○ ● Lower-income residents, especially in the southern ○ Aggravated assault up 36% third of the area, are within a Burglary down 48% ○ medically-underserved census tract ○ Property Crime down 20% Dutchtown (includes full neighborhood) ● Healthcare and Disease ○ Robbery up 14.9% More than 21% of people without Health Insurance ● Aggravated assault down 2% ○ ● Higher than City average for rates of Diabetes ○ Burglary down 33% (12%) and Obesity (more than 34%), Property Crime down 6.7% ○ ● Asthma rates in City of St. Louis higher than state and national averages
Youth and Families Focus Area #2 Image Courtesy of Dutchtown South Community Corporation
The Youth and Families focus area highlights the Youth and Families: contributions, needs and importance of these groups in Community Conditions the long-term success of our neighborhoods. Strengths Opportunities Challenges ● Our families and youth ● Connect schools and ● Lack of opportunity for are very diverse students with young people ( jobs, ● They make up strong community after school programs) pockets of neighbors Involve youth in Youth-led crime ● ● community decisions ● Youth lack mentorship and leadership Families struggle with ● ● Welcome refugee and internal language immigrant families barriers
The Youth and Families focus area.... Youth and Families: Data and Information Young People ● Over 30% of population is UNDER 18 (Benton Programming to support youth lead by Thomas ● Park West: 31% youth population; Gravois Park: Dunn Learning Center, Neighborhood Houses/ 33% youth population; and Dutchtown: 28% youth ASAP, Cherokee Street Reach, Yeyo Arts Collective population) ● Neighborhood Accountability Boards in ● Schools: Froebel Elementary, Meramec Elementary, Dutchtown and Gravois Park Fanning Middle School, KIPP Wisdom, Carnahan High School, Roosevelt High School Families ● Approximately 12% of families have a primary ● Average household size is greater than 3 people language other than English Large number of households with children are led by ● ● Approximately 49% of households with children are single mother living in poverty Our neighborhoods have higher percentage of ● families with children than nearby neighborhoods
Economic Development and Prosperity Focus Area #3 Image Courtesy of Nebula Coworking STL
Economic Development Economic Development and Prosperity refers to the and Prosperity: ability of residents to thrive and prosper through financial well being, wealth building, and economic stability. Community Conditions Strengths Opportunities Challenges ● Entrepreneurship by ● Minority-owned ● Jobs for people of all refugee and minority business development abilities and populations ● Jobs in the backgrounds Diversity of industries neighborhood for people Ways to develop ● ● and businesses in the who live here community without area Building wealth for pushing out low-income ● ● Density of low-income families and people neighborhoods bring long-term residents Job training and ● greater purchasing ● Getting youth to work education for jobs power
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