• Encourage businesses - diversify local services/stores/restaurants
• Need a comprehensive look at which types of businesses best serve the community
• Expand the commercial area
• Work out a possible bed and breakfast venture with some of the old estates rather than demolish and redevelop
• Attracting consumer businesses
• Small businesses tax base - reliance on individual property owners
• Lack of family restaurants in Oakwood
• Downtown Oakwood isn’t people friendly
• Public space in the CBD - a place to sit and eat ice cream or drink coffee outside
• Enhancement of the residential and commercial tax base

• Speeding traffic on side streets (2)
• Traffic on Far Hills
• Traffic flows
• Traffic on Thruston - more so than Patterson Road, large trucks
• Decreasing traffic
• Narrow streets - parking on both sides makes it difficult to pass though
• Cars parked on streets - residents not using own garages and driveways
• With increased focus on getting people to visit downtown Dayton, how will Far Hills and traffic be impacted?
• Loud car radio speakers
• Speeding through residential streets
• Planning for future traffic concerns
• Enforcing parking rules near UD so that students do not infringe on Oakwood
• Transportation has to start - house to house for elderly seniors who have difficulty driving
• Sidewalk congestion - bicycle riders using sidewalks coming upon walkers quietly
• Road safety, pedestrian crossings
• Transportation for non-drivers
• Walkways

• Diversity and tolerance of others (2)
• Lack of diversity/economic/racial demographics (2)
• Isolation of the elderly - shut-ins (2)
• People moving out after their children are educated (2)
• Enhancing and promoting diversity - racial profiling
• Diversity of population - image both internal and external/ elderly and minorities
• Socio-economic segregation
• Making all residents feel welcome
• Too much focus on diversity, whatever that means
• Demographics - school needs and housing needs
• Dramatic change in demographics - much younger
• Lack of concern for neighbors’ comfort and privacy, which is characterized by changing demographics in small areas
• Lonely, isolated elderly population