| Sustain
an Involved, Tolerant and Inclusive Community |
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Maintain
Diversity |
- Increase
public involvement and community interaction
- Work together to decrease
isolation
- Promote citizen participation and diversity in the planning
process
- Encourage ecological and cultural tolerance
- Foster greater communication, diversity, cooperation, and
civility
- Foster concern for
common good of entire community
- Involve all residents, early in the planning and policy
making process
- Reach for the common good
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- Celebrate diversity in population, neighborhoods, built
environment
- Maintain
an economically diverse housing stock
- Celebrate diversity among ages, income levels, housing,
and education
- Develop a vibrant 24 hour community
- Avoid
becoming a bedroom community
- Promote and maintain cultural diversity and
economic diversity
- Increase diversity in schools and community
- Retain
mature population with senior and empty-nester housing
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| Sustain
the Mature Character of the Community While Growing and Evolving |
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Create
Positive Changes Through Community-Based Government |
- Maintain neighborhood character
- Insure that new development strengthens the existing fabric
and is compatible with what already exists
- Champion the needs of older residents for housing and quality
of life
- Design for
quality not quantity
- Control impacts of new subdivisions that increase
density
- Insure that the town is desirable and livable for all economic
levels
- Reduce impacts of teardowns on density, compatibility,
scale, diversity
- Formulate regulations to protect character (F.A.R., setbacks,
street width, etc.)
- Preserve the residential character and integrity of the
community
- Maintain existing
housing and population density
- Attract young families, preserve and maintain values, provide
daycare
- Balance impacts of larger houses and higher taxes they
pay for schools
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- Change ways government governs to achieve goals and objectives
- Respect and embrace professionalization of government
- Use a business
approach to raising and spending revenues
- Avoid forcing people on fixed
incomes to move out of community
- Provide services to meet the human needs for all population
groups
- Create realistic expectations about paying for desired
services
- Identify alternatives to more taxation
- Recognize
the cumulative costs and impacts of local regulations
- Maintain a healthy balance between the public good and
private rights
- Consider effects of tax caps on School Districts, Park
District, City Increase collaboration by City, Park District,
School Districts, etc.
- Balance the use of government regulations
and incentives
- Develop and maintain an excellent physical infrastructure
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| Create
a More Effective and Efficient Transportation System |
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Maintain
a Healthy Local Economy |
- Link neighborhoods, with the schools, parks, and open spaces
- Support
and implement the Greenways Plan
- Reduce Westside/Eastside separation
- Provide
non-vehicular connections
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- Maintain a strong and vibrant Downtown
- Improve the vital Skokie
Highway corridor
- Support local businesses
- Create a stable community through economic vitality which
respects the environment
- Provide incentives
to retain and attract businesses
- Protect and strengthen the neighborhood
business districts
- Increase the non-residential tax base
- Provide adequate parking for customers, commuters, and
employee
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| Protect
the Environment |
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Sustain
a Philosophy of Preservation |
- Enhance natural relationships to Lake Michigan, and the
ravines, bluffs, wetlands, forests, prairies, open spaces,
flood plains, rivers and other natural resources in Highland
Park
- Preserve natural settings and the prevalence of nature
over the built environment
- Create a legacy for future generations by protecting the
environment
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- Maintain Highland Park's sense of place, character, and
history
- Maintain quality of architecture in residential and public
structures
- Preserve
the quality of residential neighborhoods
- Protect natural, historic and physical resources, and natural
beauty
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| Maintain
Excellent Schools |
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Focus
on the Arts |
- Promote
lifelong learning for children and adults
- Maintain a strong quality school
system
- Maintain excellence in education and encourage high expectations
- Preserve architectural quality of school facilities
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- Support cultural institutions
- Encourage public art
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