- Effects of general economy and loss of regional corporations, high-income businesses
- Active role in solicitations of desired businesses
- Future land use of open space in Oakwood
- Are we allowing too much development? Should we begin to think in terms of maintaining what we have rather than building new things?
- Use of City as land trust to conserve property, prevent development
- Zoning needs to be less haphazardly enforced, but many of the laws should vary from sections of town possibly. For example, in areas where neighbors live on top of one another, the fencing laws should differ from estate areas
- Increasing ordinances
Sugar Camp (10)
- Development of Sugar Camp (4)
- Acquisition of Sugar Camp (3)
- Future use of Sugar Camp (2)
- Sale of Sugar Camp
Education (3)
- Maintaining excellence of schools (2)
- Educational issues
Demographics (2)
- Future effects as predicted by demographics
- Demographic change
Traffic and Parking (2)
- Parking and traffic in neighborhoods
- Traffic issues, particularly around schools and other congested areas
Other
- Special needs servicesseniors, daycare, mentally ill, transportation for seniors (2)
- Identify perimeter of Oakwood
- Protect aquifers
- Utilities identification
- Hawthorn Hill
- Do we offer our youth enough opportunities for healthy activities?
4. Identify three (3) specific projects or actions that you would like to see undertaken within Oakwood.
The projects most frequently mentioned by Committee members related to: a) infrastructure improvements; b) purchase of Sugar Camp, c) additional recreational facilities; d) new housing options for seniors; e) redevelopment of the Park Avenue business area; and f) establishment of an architectural review board.
Zoning and Development (13)
- Establish architectural review board, encourage professional design (2)
- Review zoning to insure meeting community needs; architectural integrity, front door orientation, lack of retail, commercial, and subdivision of lots
- Limit subdivision of large properties
- Establish architectural guidelines
- Adopt a development standard that relies less on subjective decision-making and more on objective standards
- Revisit invisible fence zoning
- Increase ordinances for development in City, demolition of existing houses and the expansion of existing homes
- Revise estate/death taxes so large estates don’t have to be subdivided by heirs
- Develop land for future updating of streetscape, landscaping of Oakwood business district