- Negative effect of businesses attracting non-residents
- Home swimming pools, lawn blowers - lawn services with 3 or more people cutting
- Charge extra for 2-inch water main
- Isolation of the elderly
- Hand selection by the Council, who pick friends and families over those more qualified
- Increasing amount of money available to the City and how best to use those funds
- Need for tougher zoning
- Availability of tornado sirens - are we covering all of the City
- Upgrade/cleanup bikeway on North East area
- Acquire land from NCR for City buildings or park area
- Acquiring Sugar Camp
- Stop the razing of historic homes
- Inconsistent checklist of guidelines in order to obtain certificate to sell your home
- Annexation
- Loud car radios
- What we could call perpetual piles of garbage on the street every week
- Health of citizens
- Increasing tax burden for real estate taxes on fixed income population
- Need for architectural review board rather than Planning Commission
- Lack of diversity (age, life style) on plan committee
- Length of time permitted when constructing a house in Oakwood
- Pre-sale building inspection
- Inspection of rental occupancy of multi-family buildings
- Noise in community, car radio
- Transportation to the business district for elderly
- Ridiculously late delivery of mail
- Hills and Dales Park - usage, management and continued upkeep
- Promote City events
- Historic significance
- Property inspections appear to be overdone
- Regulation of exterior house colors
- Community security issues and concerns
- High taxes
- Social issues of teens and senior citizens
- Security lights not being shielded
- Pet control
3. List, in order of importance, the three (3) most important issues discussed thus far.
The issues rated most important by Oakwood residents and business persons related to: a) housing and residential areas; b) demographics, c) other development issues, and d) community facilities and services.
The specific issues most frequently citied included: a) housing for the elderly, b) historic and architectural preservation, c) the future of Sugar Camp, and d) recreational facilities.
Housing and Residential Areas (28):
- Housing for the elderly (8)
- Break-up of large estates (3)