Community Area Planning Book 2000
Part 1, Section II: Products
The main benefits of the CAP initiative
will be tangible, non-tangible and ancillary products,
as follows:
Tangible Products
- Community area plans that take into consideration
the diversity of areas of the city, but which are
also linked to the bigger picture -- the Comprehensive
Citywide Plan (Comprehensive Plan)
- Identification of community needs, based NOT on
what we think those needs are, but rather on what
each community area realizes their needs are (Capital
Improvement Plan)
- Implementation strategies and benchmarking procedures
(Unified Land Development Regulations, capital improvement
program, etc.)
- Identification of funding sources (Capital Improvement
Budget, Bond Referendum, Grants, etc.)
Non-tangible Products
- Creating a sense of interconnection or community
- Outreach
- Better communication
- Sense of social responsibility
Ancillary Products
- Updated citywide database
- Improved efficiency in providing services and facilities
to address community area needs
- Improved interdepartmental coordination of actions
to meet community area needs
- Equitable disbursement of resources to all community
areas
- More effective use of taxpayer dollars
- Proactive, not reactive
  
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