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ABOUT
VISION AND INITIATIVES
POLICY PLAN
2030 CONCEPT PLANS
IMPLEMENTATION CAMPAIGNS
PERFORMANCE DEVELOPMENT
SCHEDULE AND PROGRESS
REPORTS AND PUBLICATIONS
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Policy Plan
For Intergovernmental Collaboration
PUBLIC DISCUSSION DRAFT
BASED ON OKI LAND USE COMMISSION RECOMMENDATIONS, NOVEMBER 2004
Introduction |
Transportation |
Public Facilities and Services
Natural Systems |
Housing |
Economic Development
Land Use |
Footnotes
HOUSING
Policy Opportunity:
15. Alignment of Hamilton County and local government comprehensive plans
will help to assure a diverse mix of housing choices – in terms of size,
price, type, transit accessibility, and location and maintain and improve
the quality of the housing stock, property owner’s assets and the
community’s fiscal strength.
Implementation Policies:
15.1. Hamilton County and local government comprehensive plans should
include a housing element that assesses the physical condition of the
jurisdiction’s housing stock, provides for the maintenance of the
community’s character, fiscal strength, and property values, and ensures
that safe, decent housing is available for all residents. Hamilton County
and local governments should use the OKI comprehensive plan guidelines and
regional policies to assure consideration of housing in the context of
transportation, land use, economic development, public facilities
(including schools), natural systems, recreation, intergovernmental
coordination, and capital improvements18.
15.2. Hamilton County and local government
comprehensive plans should include/establish housing policies that support
revitalization, re-development, and re-investment in existing housing
stock, where appropriate.
15.3. Hamilton County and local governments
should use housing/property maintenance codes to protect the community’s
character, fiscal strength, and property values, and should enforce with
legal action, when appropriate.
15.4. Hamilton County and local governments
should pursue public and private funding and technical assistance to
improve and maintain the housing stock in their communities, where
appropriate.
Policy Opportunity:
16. Alignment of Hamilton County and local government comprehensive plans
will help to provide for higher density housing convenient to transit and
services such as shopping, daycare, and parks.
Implementation Policies:
16.1. Hamilton County and local governments should use the policies of
their comprehensive plans to encourage mixed-use19
, transit-friendly development20,
where appropriate.
16.2. Hamilton County and local governments
should use the policies of their comprehensive plans to provide for
increased housing densities near transit stops and economic activity
centers, where appropriate.
16.3. The Hamilton County Caucus of OKI
representatives should work with OKI to assure that OKI’s long-range
transportation plan acknowledges transit needs identified by Hamilton
County and local government comprehensive plans and transit providers,
whether or not project funding has been identified.
Policy Opportunity:
17. Affordable housing21 and a
desirable range of housing choices, in terms of price, size, type and
location can be more consistently available throughout the county and the
region by working with homebuilders, state agencies, and housing authorities
and aligning Hamilton County and local government comprehensive plans.
Implementation Policies:
17.1. Hamilton County and local governments should use the policies of
their comprehensive plans to encourage a range of housing types,
densities, and affordability within their communities.
17.2. Hamilton County and local government
comprehensive plans should assess the condition of their existing housing
stock and the current and future housing needs of residents and workers.
17.3. Hamilton County and local governments
should continue to work with developers, public housing authorities, and
private landlords to ensure the availability of scattered-site subsidized
housing22.
17.4. Hamilton County and local government
comprehensive plans should provide for varied rental and homeownership
opportunities, as well as alternative housing options for various segments
of the population, such as garage apartments, granny flats, mixed
residential/office/commercial structures, and multi-family buildings,
where appropriate.
17.5. Hamilton County and local governments
should review and revise their zoning, subdivision, and building codes,
where appropriate, to 1.) reduce unnecessary regulatory barriers to build
affordable housing (such as large lot sizes, minimum unit size and floor
space, setbacks, etc.), and 2.) establish regulations that promote the
building of affordable housing units (such as zero lot line development,
cluster development, accessory apartments, high-density zoning, mixed-use
buildings, modified site improvement standards, alternate construction
techniques, etc.).
Policy Opportunity:
18. Public school districts can affect and be affected by surrounding
neighborhoods. Hamilton County and local governments can work with their
school districts to address the actual and perceived problems associated
with their students and the surrounding neighborhoods.
Implementation Policies:
18.1. Hamilton County and local government comprehensive plans and related
policies should encourage public and private actions/programs that: 1.)
attract and help keep families with children in the urban areas to improve
the balance between urban and suburban, and residential and commercial
growth; 2.) enhance existing neighborhood schools; 3.) provide school
facilities to meet the demand of the community as it changes; and 4.)
improve the physical and environmental conditions of all neighborhoods,
where appropriate.
18.2. Hamilton County, local governments
and school districts should work together to identify and resolve crime
and safety issues that affect surrounding neighborhoods, where
appropriate.
Policy Opportunity:
19. Hamilton County and local governments can assess and prioritize for
action the socioeconomic issues prompting migration in and out of their
jurisdiction.
Implementation Policies:
19.1. Hamilton County and local governments should encourage public and
private efforts to create and maintain safe and livable neighborhoods
where people want to live, work, learn, play, shop, and grow a business.
19.2. The housing element and policies of
Hamilton County and local government comprehensive plan’s should encourage
a diverse mix of housing choices in order to attract and provide housing
options for all income levels.
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No foreign policy - no matter
how ingenious - has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a
few and carried in the hearts of none.
HENRY KISSINGER
I never had a policy; I
have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Community COMPASS
Participants
Awards
Glossary of Terms
Community COMPASS Process
Other Plans (local,
countywide, state)
Alignment with OKI
Indicators
Smart Growth Principles
Hamilton County Treasures
Community COMPASS Publications
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