• Continue to support Oakwood City Schools and promote continued cooperation between the City and the schools to maintain a quality educational system.
• Identify opportunities to further enhance the park system, natural areas, and open spaces as important community assets.
• Promote continued improvement and replacement of aging infrastructure facilities and services.
• Identify opportunities to improve traffic safety and traffic flow, bicycle and pedestrian circulation, and public transportation.
• Promote significant local input and participation, which has helped establish consensus and support for planning policies and recommendations.

GOALS AND OBJECTIVES

The goals, objectives, and recommendations of the new Comprehensive Plan are based on: a) the 1989 Comprehensive Plan, b) advice and suggestions from the 25-member Comprehensive Planning Committee, and c) input received from the Oakwood community as a part of the community outreach activities.

Goals and objectives each have a different purpose in the planning process:

• Goals describe desired end situations toward which planning efforts should be directed. They are broad and long-range. They represent an end to be sought, although they may never actually be fully attained.
• Objectives describe broad actions that should be undertaken in order to advance toward the overall goals. They provide guidelines for further study of specific projects, with economic justification a priority, in order to implement appropriate actions to accomplish the objective.

The objectives are presented in the form of Existing Objectives and New Objectives, defined as follows:

• EXISTING OBJECTIVES: Objectives that are currently being addressed and are considered to be of continuing importance. Many of these were identified in the 1989 Comprehensive Plan. The City should continue to pursue these objectives.
• NEW OBJECTIVES: These represent new or expanded initiatives that the City should pursue.

1. COMMUNITY IMAGE and CHARACTER

An attractive and distinctive community image and character that build upon Oakwood’s unique traditional qualities and characteristics, and help distinguish it from other communities in the Dayton region.

1. Retain Oakwood’s “small town” atmosphere and character by maintaining Oakwood as primarily a residential community offering high-quality housing choices and premier neighborhood areas.
2. Retain the attractive tree-lined streets, open space character, pedestrian scale, and other distinguishing qualities of the Oakwood community.