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COMMUNITY MEETING 2

MEETING NOTES

On Thursday March 14th, 2019 from 5 to 6:30pm at Lincoln-Gavin Elementary School, the residents of the Chicago Heights Downtown/East Side Choice Neighborhood provided input on the future of their neighborhood.

To begin the meeting, residents were given question cards that asked them what their ideal neighborhood would include in three words and allowed them to provide additional comments. Residents were also given stickers to identify preferred residential and commercial building types. After a short presentation from Bill James of Camiros, Tim Kollar of The Housing Authority of Cook County facilitated a Family Feud style game explaining the results of the recent Resident Needs Assessment Survey. Residents then broke into groups to “plan” their community by completing a sticker activity in which they identified their preferred locations for a variety of potential housing types and retail development on a map of the Downtown/East Side Choice Neighborhood.

The results of all activities and photos from the evening’s activities follow.

March 14, 2019

WHAT SHOULD THE DOWNTOWN AND EAST SIDE BE LIKE IN A WORD?

Residents were asked to give three words to describe their ”ideal” neighborhood.A Word Cloud of the results is shown below. The larger the type, the more frequently that word was mentioned.

WHAT IS THE MOST IMPORTANT THING FOR YOUR IDEAL NEIGHBORHOOD TO HAVE?

1. Parks

2. Access to needs

3. A community/fitness center and a food pantry, as well as for my neighborhood to be clean, safe, and well-lit

4. Recreational activities for the kids

5. Townhomes, single-family homes

6. Transportation, healthcare, programs for all ages, community events

7. Food stores and to clean up 12th street

8. Businesses and a multipurpose facility

9. Investment in continual growth and the wellbeing of the youth

10. Programs for youth and seniors

11. A place we’d all be happy to visit and feel safe and secure

12. Beautiful homes in a safe neighborhood

13. Kids to be safe

14. Safety

15. People to respect each other

16. No boarded up houses or buildings

17. New businesses and homes

18. A new playground for the kids with baseball fields and after school programs

19. More reasons for people to get out of the house and come together – for community events, recreational destinations, or other general conveniences

20. Ranch style homes to accommodate the elderly as well as a community center and school

21. Safety

22. Good police work day and night

23. Great neighbors, close to shopping, safe communities, pet friendly, close to affordable housing

24. Stores, everything

25. Parks, grocery stores and bike trails

The following comments were also provided by residents.

WHAT KINDS OF BUILDINGS WOULD YOU PREFER TO SEE?

COMMUNITY MEETING 2Visual Prefernce surVey

single-family Homes

Townhomes

use the colored stickers to tell us what kinds of buildings you think should be built in chicago Heights! for each building type, there are several styles to chose from.

Place your stickers here!






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Residents were given the opportunity to vote on their favorite residential and commercial building types. The voting results are shown below:

WHAT KINDS OF BUILDINGS WOULD YOU PREFER TO SEE?

COMMUNITY MEETING 2Visual Prefernce surVey

Multi-family Homes

commercial Buildings

use the colored stickers to tell us what kinds of buildings you think should be built in chicago Heights! for each building type, there are several styles to chose from.







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13

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WHERE SHOULD NEW DEVELOPMENT GO?

Residents used colored stickers to decide where new buildings should go. They were provided a set number of stickers, depending on the level of density for the type of development as well as blank stickers that could be used to add neighborhood amenities like parks or community centers. Below is a description of each sticker type. Finished maps can be seen on the following pages. Text circles do not cover any stickers.

GroceryStore

GroceryStore

SeniorBuilding


Bowling Alley

LaundromatStore

LaundromatStore


Banks

MixedUse

McDonalds/Fast Food

DrugStore

SeniorHousing


TownSquare

VAHospital

WalkingTrail

Park/Community

Garden

Community Garden


LearningCenter

Bowling/Skating

SchoolPlayground

Park


Park

CommunityCenter

BikeTrail

RecCenter

SchoolPlayground

Park

Bowling/Skating

MEETING PHOTOS

THANK YOU FOR YOUR PARTICIPATION!

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