Board members reported increasing concern by many residents on the increasing traffic on Skinker, the increasing number of minor crashes per week on Skinker, the need for a longer walk light at Waterman, and the need for a walk light at Skinker and Millbrook.
Category: Neighborhood Planning
Plans and projects for improvements in parts of the 25th and 28th wards, comprising Region V of the Women for City Living were outlined at a meeting for local residents on October 12.
Redevelopment plans for the "triangle area" were submitted, as scheduled, to the City Plan Commission on October 6th.
The Executive Board of the Skinker-DeBaliviere Community Council, Inc. gave its approval to the redevelopment plan worked out by its Housing Committee and Team Four, an urban planning firm.
More black residents — both as owners and renters of housing units — constitute a major change in the Skinker-DeBaliviere area during the 1960s, census returns made public recently indicate.
Mr. Cal Stuart will discuss the latest on the redevelopment plan.
A committee from Women for City Living is inquiring into official plans for the future use of Skinker Boulevard and McCausland Avenue.
Plans for the redevelopment of the "triangle area," the northeast corner of the Skinker-DeBaliviere area from Delmar back to Waterman and the 5800 block of DeGiverville are continuing.
Surveys of residential and commercial areas designated for redevelopment under the Neighborhood Development Incentive Program have been completed in the Skinker-DeBaliviere area.
Within the Skinker-DeBaliviere area there are approximately 2,500 children ranging from ages six to thirteen (the combined enrollment of Hamilton and St. Roch's schools.) Perhaps there are half again that many in the fourteen to nineteen age group; no figures are available.
The 353 Bill which will allow for the redevelopment of an area just west of DeBaliviere was approved by the Board of Aldermen and the Mayor in early April.
Our columnist Bob Brown, called early in April and said he'd heard something about the Job Corps Center site on Delmar and wanted to do a column on it.
