The document provides a summary of a planning initiative for the West Side Park neighborhood of Newark, NJ. It outlines the planning process, reviews previous plans and best practices from other cities. It analyzes neighborhood strengths and issues related to leadership, crime, poverty, housing, and quality of life. Recommendations are made to address these issues through organizing residents, economic development, public safety improvements, housing strategies, education partnerships, health services, and enhancing recreation opportunities. Next steps involve forming working groups to advance the strategic plan and attract funding for implementation.
The New Jersey Chapter’s CPAP team was invited by the South Ward Children’s Alliance in Newark’s South Ward to support the creation of a community needs assessment that could be used in their efforts to improve public education in the South Ward. The Alliance has become increasingly aware that addressing problems in the community, such as housing, crime and recreation, is a critical part of improving the South Ward’s public schools. The CPAP was asked to support their efforts to identify social issues in the surrounding neighborhoods and how they should be prioritized. The long list of social issues in the area creates unstable environments where education becomes a huge challenge for students. The overarching goal is to create a stable life for students so they can do better in school. A major component of the field work was to work with parents of children in the schools to ensure their points of view. The team conducted a review of data provided by the Alliance, researched additional sources for data, combined them with the views of the parents and produced a final presentation of the work, including maps, data, and results.
While this was a very different kind of project for the team, considering the close link with public education, the team was enthusiastic to do it. Two of the team members brought strong backgrounds in urban public education to the project. The team’s analytical approach provided the Alliance with important information they will use to consider programs to address the neighborhood’s most urgent needs.
The team members were:
• Molly Coon
• Michael Kolber
• Christopher Kok
• Nadia Mian
• Deborah Schulze
• Tom Schulze
In this webinar, Bruce Harrell, Community Program
Specialist in the Los Angeles Regional Office
of the State Council on Developmental Disabilities discusses:
- What Self-Determination is
- How it works
- How to decide if it is right for you
- How to enroll
- When it starts
The New Jersey Chapter’s CPAP team was invited by the South Ward Children’s Alliance in Newark’s South Ward to support the creation of a community needs assessment that could be used in their efforts to improve public education in the South Ward. The Alliance has become increasingly aware that addressing problems in the community, such as housing, crime and recreation, is a critical part of improving the South Ward’s public schools. The CPAP was asked to support their efforts to identify social issues in the surrounding neighborhoods and how they should be prioritized. The long list of social issues in the area creates unstable environments where education becomes a huge challenge for students. The overarching goal is to create a stable life for students so they can do better in school. A major component of the field work was to work with parents of children in the schools to ensure their points of view. The team conducted a review of data provided by the Alliance, researched additional sources for data, combined them with the views of the parents and produced a final presentation of the work, including maps, data, and results.
While this was a very different kind of project for the team, considering the close link with public education, the team was enthusiastic to do it. Two of the team members brought strong backgrounds in urban public education to the project. The team’s analytical approach provided the Alliance with important information they will use to consider programs to address the neighborhood’s most urgent needs.
The team members were:
• Molly Coon
• Michael Kolber
• Christopher Kok
• Nadia Mian
• Deborah Schulze
• Tom Schulze
In this webinar, Bruce Harrell, Community Program
Specialist in the Los Angeles Regional Office
of the State Council on Developmental Disabilities discusses:
- What Self-Determination is
- How it works
- How to decide if it is right for you
- How to enroll
- When it starts
Yvette Mulongo Kabwe of IMA World Health presents IMA's USHINDA project in the Democratic Republic of Congo to help women overcome sexual violence. The project enables women to become involved in the democratic process and teaches them critical life skills.
In this webinar, Sandy Magaña, PhD, Professor of Disability and Human Development at the University of Illinois at Chicago, will discuss:
- Research on the mental and physical health of caregivers, including that of Latinos and African Americans
- Recognizing the importance of caring for yourself as a caregiver
- Recognizing signs of stress and depression
- Including others in caregiving
- Setting health goals for yourself
Participation of children and young people in Skedsmo municipality 28 april 2016Nina Lande
An overview of how the municipailty has organized in order to ensure children`s and young people`s participation and influence. Presented for a group from Transparency International (cz) Presentasjon Oversikt over BUK - Ungdomsråd - Ungdomsutvalg i Skedsmo kommune.
The Importance of Validating Your Statement of Need4Good.org
In this session led by the author of Grant Writing for Dummies, Dr. Bev (Browning) will share how the Statement of Need is viewed by grantmaking decision makers (and peer reviewers). Validating your Statement of Need can determine your grant application’s fate.
Women and Girls Building Peace and Preventing Sexual and Domestic ViolenceRotary International
Sexual and domestic violence is pervasive across cultures, socio-economic status, ethnicity and age groups, with no boundaries. Women and girls suffer in silence, without knowing their rights, available resources, or how to access legal and psychosocial services. How can we, as RPFs and Rotarians, support women and girls to lead lives free of violence? Presenters shared program models from Bolivia, India, and Australia.
Yvette Mulongo Kabwe of IMA World Health presents IMA's USHINDA project in the Democratic Republic of Congo to help women overcome sexual violence. The project enables women to become involved in the democratic process and teaches them critical life skills.
In this webinar, Sandy Magaña, PhD, Professor of Disability and Human Development at the University of Illinois at Chicago, will discuss:
- Research on the mental and physical health of caregivers, including that of Latinos and African Americans
- Recognizing the importance of caring for yourself as a caregiver
- Recognizing signs of stress and depression
- Including others in caregiving
- Setting health goals for yourself
Participation of children and young people in Skedsmo municipality 28 april 2016Nina Lande
An overview of how the municipailty has organized in order to ensure children`s and young people`s participation and influence. Presented for a group from Transparency International (cz) Presentasjon Oversikt over BUK - Ungdomsråd - Ungdomsutvalg i Skedsmo kommune.
The Importance of Validating Your Statement of Need4Good.org
In this session led by the author of Grant Writing for Dummies, Dr. Bev (Browning) will share how the Statement of Need is viewed by grantmaking decision makers (and peer reviewers). Validating your Statement of Need can determine your grant application’s fate.
Women and Girls Building Peace and Preventing Sexual and Domestic ViolenceRotary International
Sexual and domestic violence is pervasive across cultures, socio-economic status, ethnicity and age groups, with no boundaries. Women and girls suffer in silence, without knowing their rights, available resources, or how to access legal and psychosocial services. How can we, as RPFs and Rotarians, support women and girls to lead lives free of violence? Presenters shared program models from Bolivia, India, and Australia.
Community Vision Plan for the Palisades Nature PreserveAPA-NJ
The American Planning Association - NJ Chapter's Community Planning Assistance Program was invited by the Coalition to Preserve the Palisades, Inc. to develop a community vision plan for a 6.55 acre site that lies on the Palisades Cliffs, a line of steep cliffs formed about 200 million years ago. Part of the James J. Braddock North Hudson County Park, the site is owned by Hudson County, but is currently closed to visitors. CPAP volunteers: conducted field visits to determine the existing site conditions; obtained and reviewed existing mapping and historical documents of the site; created and implemented a community visioning process in an effort to determine the community’s thoughts, concerns, and ideas for the site, and use the community’s voice as the foundation of this vision plan; and created the vision plan. The community visioning process included creation of and meetings with a steering committee that included the Hudson County parks and planning departments, and conduct of a public meeting. The vision plan included: a vision statement; conceptual designs and recommendations; project phasing and cost estimates; estimated project timeline; and funding options.
A Vision for Revitalizing the French Street Commercial CorridorAPA-NJ
APA-NJ CPAP was invited to New Brunswick by the Esperanza Neighborhood Project and New Brunswick Tomorrow to create a vision plan to enhance the French Street commercial corridor using input and recommendations from community residents, businesses, and shoppers.
The French Streets corridor is located in the heart of New Brunswick near Rutgers University and the Robert Wood Johnson Hospital/University Complex, the train station and other downtown offices. The corridor is about half a mile long and contains mostly small retail businesses that serve a mostly local customer base. The neighborhood has a rich Hispanic/Latin culture and many of the businesses there cater to that market.
The key goals for revitalizing French Street were:
• Beautify and improve Crime,
• Improve pedestrian safety and vehicle flow,
• Improve and create public spaces,
• Reduce crime and loitering, and
• Attract shoppers to the businesses along French Street.
The team conducted a community driven SWOT analysis for the area and extensive outreach and data collection to develop an ambitious set of strategies and recommendations for reaching the goals.
The CPAP Team:
Dan Bloch, Maser Consulting PA
Mike Cassidy, NJCDC, Team Leader
John Duda, MKW Associates
Joe Herbert, Sailfast Development
Jessica Schellack, PANY&NJ
Matt Sprung, Sprung Planning Company
Xunjing Wu, AECOM
WRT worked with the US EPA, the Region 1 EPA office in Boston, and the Hartford Capital Region Council of Governments (CRCOG) to develop a document that illustrates the best practices in site redevelopment for failed and failing Greyfield sites. Using a case study in Manchester, CT, WRT’s document focuses on the effectiveness of smart growth principles and the importance of approaching smart growth implementation collaboratively across all governmental levels and policy making. The case study approach utilizes model guidelines to turn a defunct shopping center into an affordable, green, mixed-use development, and served as the first public document to launch the Sustainable Communities Initiative in the Connecticut Capitol Region. The work included best practices in energy efficiency and conservation, Green Streets, and a systems approach to stormwater management and water quality protection. The following documents are the series of EPA documents that were published as part of the CRCOG Sustainable Communities Initiative:
From Grey to Green: Sustainable Practices for Redeveloping a Vacant Shopping Center
Together We Can Grow Better: Smart Growth for a Sustainable Connecticut Capitol Region
Smart Growth Guidelines for Sustainable Design and Development
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Vision Plan for the 22nd Street Hudson Bergen Light Rail Station Neighborhood...APA-NJ
A team of volunteers worked with the City’s Planning Department to create a stakeholder driven, broad brush vision plan for the 22nd Street Hudson Bergen Light Rail Transit Station (HBLRT) Neighborhood - one that provides general direction for the City’s upcoming area redevelopment plan. The goal of the City of Bayonne’s municipal government is to encourage more transit oriented developments in this neighborhood. The CPAP volunteer team: reviewed previous planning efforts in the neighborhood; observed existing land uses and conditions; and, assessed community assets, constraints and opportunities. The CPAP volunteer team then met with a stakeholder group assembled by the City for the purposes of discussing their views on the neighborhood’s assets, constraints, challenges, and opportunities. The Vision Plan included several vision statements that articulated that articulated the stakeholders’ desires for the future of this neighborhood.
Craig Benjamin gave this presentation to our community group - Sustainable Queen Anne (Seattle). Craig is a Master in Public Administration and has a Certificate of Environmental Management, both from the Evans School of Public Affairs, Univ. of Wash. Craig holds a B.A. in Public Policy from Washington & Lee Univ. Craig serves on the city of Seattle’s Neighborhood Plan Advisory Committee and Bicycle Advisory Board. He is employed by Cascade Land Conservancy in Seattle (2009).
The Neighborhood Initiative Program : Best Practices for Strategic Demolitiongreaterohio
This presentation provides details on best practices for implementing the Neighborhood Initiative Program guidelines.
Overview of the Neighborhood Initiative Program:
The Ohio Finance Agency (OHFA) received approval from the U.S. Department of the Treasury to utilize up to $60 million of Ohio’s remaining Hardest Hit Funds (HHF) to assist with stabilizing local property values through the demolition of vacant and abandoned homes across Ohio.
The Neighborhood Initiative Program (NIP) is designed to stabilize property values by removing and greening vacant and abandoned properties in targeted areas in an effort to prevent future foreclosures for existing homeowners.
The Neighborhood Initiative Program (NIP) will fund strategically targeted residential demolition in designated areas within the state of Ohio. OHFA will partner with County Land Revitalization Corporations (“land banks”) or an entity that has signed a cooperative agreement with an established county land bank.
- NIP will be available to the 17 Ohio counties that have an established land bank.
- OHFA has issued a Request for Proposals from the state’s county land banks.
- The program commences in early 2014 and will conclude in 2017.
Technical Assistance:
OHFA has contracted GOPC to advise OHFA and applicants on the implementation of the Neighborhood Initiative Program (NIP).
Assistance includes:
1. Consultation with applicants regarding best practices for the selection of neighborhoods and properties for the program
2. Strategic and technical advice to eligible applicants in responding to the RFP for the NIP
ATS14- What meaningful engagement means: capacity-building as a tool to impro...BTAOregon
Federal, state and local transportation guidelines strongly encourage or even require that transportation officials conduct “meaningful” public engagement as part of their planning and decision-making processes. But the most well-intentioned efforts can fail to reach low-income and minority communities that are often still not at the table when important decisions are being made. In order for marginalized communities to participate effectively in public process, government agencies and private funders must invest in their time, skills and capacity to engage in time-consuming and complex discussions such as those around transportation, planning and funding decisions. Attendees will discuss what capacity-building is and why it is important, and learn from recent capacity-building efforts in health, community planning and transportation.
Due to changing demographics and market conditions, affordable and senior housing projects are becoming more prevalent in discussions about housing types within a community. These projects often provide unique opportunities for revitalization and strategic partnerships. There are an array of incentives available to promote this type of housing. This presentation will explain why we are seeing changes in this particular housing market and what communities can do to create strategies for successful development projects that can help achieve multiple community development objectives.
In these difficult economic times, social services agencies have experienced funding cuts and loss of staff. AmeriCorps VISTA offers a way to rebuild your agency's capacity at little cost to you. AmeriCorps VISTA provides you with members ready to share their skills and passion to help others while providing them with valuable professional experience. Join us to learn more about this win-win partnership opportunity.
Creating a Shared Vision for a Community, presented by Marsha Murrington, And...craigslist_fndn
To create a vision for the future and long-term change in a community, it’s essential to have a strong, well-conceived community engagement plan and process that allows the voices within the community to be heard. Having outsiders and experts apply their values and preconceived notions of what a community needs is a recipe for failure. This session is led by three skilled change agents, with experiences working across boundaries in a variety of communities. They share their insights, stories, and approaches for bringing people of diverse backgrounds, cultures, and generations together to envision what they want their neighborhoods and communities to become, determine priorities, address problems and issues, and take greater responsibility for where they live, work, and play.
Follow the process of Sunlight Children's Advocacy & Rights Foundations capital campaign to raise funds to build the Sunshine Children's Home. This is the organizations first capital campaign.
In this webinar, speakers Patti Uplinger (Consultant and Coordinator at the Lanterman Housing Alliance) and Kristine McCann (Executive Director of the Bay Area Housing Corporation) will discuss:
- The importance of housing planning
- Different housing options
- Subsidized housing
- SSI benefits / ABLE Act
- Statewide Housing Plan
- Sources of help / advocacy
Advancing Racial Equity through Community Engagement in Collective ImpactLiving Cities
Tackling racial inequalities head on is critical to dramatically improving results for low-income people. As a starting point, equitable collaboration with people of color is critical to ensure that social change efforts are informed by the lived experience of the communities they seek to benefit.
Our webinar explored how to ensure that community residents influence the design and direction of collective impact initiatives. View the slides for insights from our panel of cross-sector leaders working to advance racial equity.
Slides used by Mark Pepper (Lawrence Weston Big Local), at the Big Local ‘What’s the deal? Working with public services' learning event, organised as part of the Local Trust programme of networking and learning events for Big Local residents. The event took place on Tuesday 2 December 2014.
2022 APA New Jersey Annual Awards Reception [Program]APA-NJ
APA New Jersey was pleased to host its annual awards program on December 15th to honor this year's Great Places in New Jersey designees and Planning Excellence Awards recipients.
Essex Street Gateway Transit Hub (Hackensack, NJ)APA-NJ
The American Planning Association New Jersey Chapter’s Community Planning Assistance Program (CPAP) created a strategic plan for the City of Hackensack focused on the Essex Street Train Station on NJ TRANSIT’s Pascack Valley Line. The work was done in partnership with NJTPA’s Transit Hub Pilot Program.
The Station is in southern Hackensack, blocks from the Hackensack University Medical Center and a large residential area along Summit Avenue and Prospect Street with high-rise apartment buildings and historic single-family homes. East of the station, less than ½ mile away, is the Bergen County Administration buildings and NJ TRANSIT’s bus terminal. North of the station is an older neighborhood of single-family houses and apartment buildings, with mixed manufacturing and light industrial uses, and the city’s high school. The bustling Main Street redevelopment area is within ¾ of a mile.
In early 2019 Habitat for Humanity in Paterson, NJ contacted the APA-NJ chapter to talk about their need for a team of volunteer planners. They wanted to create a concept for a green space along the Passaic River in the Northside Neighborhood of Paterson, NJ. They wanted two types of green space; a walkway along the river, called Riverwalk, and a sports fields in an area along the river dominated by abandoned and marginal industrial and residential properties. The Northside Neighborhood is across the Passaic River from Downtown Paterson.
The Chapter’s Community Planning Assistance Program was invited by Babyland Family Services in Newark’s West Ward to build upon its social service programs to address the growing healthcare disparities and substandard living conditions for families in the West Ward. Babyland Family Services is a not-for-profit, comprehensive family service organization providing programs and resources to families living in and around the lower West Ward of Newark, New Jersey. For more than forty-five years, Babyland has provided a wide array of social services, including one of the first domestic violence shelters in Essex County and a unique foster care program specializing in keeping siblings together. Today, Babyland provides high-quality, affordable childcare and family development programs, including a Family Success Center, parent education classes, supervised visitation for children in the child welfare system and a family violence intervention program.
This summer, the New Jersey Chapter of the American Planning Association (APA-NJ) partnered with several organizations to create the City Planning Institute, a two-week program in City Planning for 20 public high school students from the cities of Passaic and Paterson. The other partners were with the Center for Community Planning, the New Jersey Community Development Corporation, Passaic County Community College, the Paterson Board of Education and the Passaic Board of Education. The class ultimately created plans for redeveloping a historic 9-story Fabian Building in downtown Paterson as a performing arts facility and community center for the college. See what they learned.
Co-hosted by the American Planning Association - New Jersey Chapter and the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning, the New Jersey Planning Conference is an annual two-day conference held at the Hyatt Regency in New Brunswick always the last Thursday and Friday in January. With over 50 sessions and workshops, the event is the largest land use conference in the state and attracts over 700 attendees representing a vast array of fields including land use professionals, private practitioners, attorneys, issue advocates, elected and appointed officials, municipal staff and citizens that are interested in maintaining and improving a high quality of life for the residents of New Jersey. Visit conference-njplanning.org to learn more.
The 2016 New Jersey Planning Conference will take place on January 28 and 29 at the Hyatt Regency. The conference is co-hosted by the American Planning Association - New Jersey Chapter and the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy.
South Ironbound Resiliency Action Plan (Newark)APA-NJ
The Ironbound Community Corporation invited the APA-NJ CPAP program to support their effrots to create a South Ironbound Resiliency Plan. The plan was developed for a portion of the Ironbound community called South Iranbound. The area includes residential, commercial, and industrial properties, and suffers from an array of issues that have been identified by the community.
Congratulations to the New Jersey Planning Award Recipients who were honored at the 2015 New Jersey Planning Conference hosted by the American Planning Association - New Jersey Chapter.
The final program of the 2015 New Jersey Planning Conference hosted by the American Planning Association - New Jersey Chapter, on January 29 and 30 at the Hyatt Regency in New Brunswick.
Jewish Renaissance Foundation – Reinvigorating Perth Amboy’s Smith Street APA-NJ
CPAP volunteers were invited to Perth Amboy to work with the public, municipal officials, and business owners to develop strategies for improving the City’s commercial street, Smith Street. The effort was concentrated on the portion of Smith Streets west of the NJ TRANSIT train station. The planning work was carefully coordinated with several other planning efforts that were underway in the area, including a Together North Jersey funded TOD study at the train station and larger area-wide plan funded by the Wells Fargo Regional Foundation. The planning work involved two meetings with the public, a survey or business owners and customers on Smith Streets, and numerous field visits.
Perth Amboy Post Sandy Plans for Rebuilding the Waterfront APA-NJ
CPAP volunteers were asked to review the plans by the City’s engineer for quickly rebuilding the waterfront area along Kill Van Kull and Raritan Bay. The area was badly damaged in the storm, and the city wanted to begin the repairs in time for the 20__ summer season on the waterfront. The volunteers attended a presentation by the engineer to the city officials, then, within several days, delivered a review of the proposals. The review affirmed the majority of the engineer’s proposals, and made some recommendations for making the waterfront more resilient in future storms.
Chapter volunteers participated in a public charette in Seaside Heights on October 29 to support the non-profit, Architecture for Humanity. AfH is working with the community to design a new event center on the boardwalk in Seaside Heights. The event center will be funded with money raised by MTV after Superstorm Sandy damaged the Seaside Heights boardwalk.
Planning for Sustainable Communities: Master Plan Guidance for New Jersey Of...APA-NJ
Since the amendment to the MLUL in 2008 to include the Green Building and Environmental Sustainability Plan element (The Sustainability Plan) in the list of permitted Master Plan elements, towns across New Jersey have been taking sustainability planning more seriously. Especially in the wake of recent extreme weather, the need for short-term resiliency actions and long-term sustainability goals is more pressing than ever.
Therefore, it is with great pleasure that the Sustainability Committee of the NJ Chapter of the American Planning Association announces the release of a sustainability planning guide for planners and municipal officials. The new guide, “Planning for Sustainable Communities: Master Plan Guidance for New Jersey Officials”, deconstructs the traditional master plan and offers new approaches to each of the plan elements with sound local and global examples that any NJ municipality can tailor to their needs.
In January 2012 Women Rising submitted an application to the New Jersey Chapter of the American Planning Association (APA-NJ) for pro bono support to update its community plan. Their plan had been written in 2005/2006. The application was made to APA-NJ’s Community Planning Assistance Program (CPAP), which provides pro bono planning support to municipalities and community groups. Recipients are selected through a process that begins with a formal request for proposals. Submitted proposals are then evaluated and two to three projects are selected each year. Women Rising’s proposal was one of three projects selected for 2012.
Ethnobotany and Ethnopharmacology:
Ethnobotany in herbal drug evaluation,
Impact of Ethnobotany in traditional medicine,
New development in herbals,
Bio-prospecting tools for drug discovery,
Role of Ethnopharmacology in drug evaluation,
Reverse Pharmacology.
Operation “Blue Star” is the only event in the history of Independent India where the state went into war with its own people. Even after about 40 years it is not clear if it was culmination of states anger over people of the region, a political game of power or start of dictatorial chapter in the democratic setup.
The people of Punjab felt alienated from main stream due to denial of their just demands during a long democratic struggle since independence. As it happen all over the word, it led to militant struggle with great loss of lives of military, police and civilian personnel. Killing of Indira Gandhi and massacre of innocent Sikhs in Delhi and other India cities was also associated with this movement.
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We all have good and bad thoughts from time to time and situation to situation. We are bombarded daily with spiraling thoughts(both negative and positive) creating all-consuming feel , making us difficult to manage with associated suffering. Good thoughts are like our Mob Signal (Positive thought) amidst noise(negative thought) in the atmosphere. Negative thoughts like noise outweigh positive thoughts. These thoughts often create unwanted confusion, trouble, stress and frustration in our mind as well as chaos in our physical world. Negative thoughts are also known as “distorted thinking”.
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1. West Side Park Neighborhood
Planning Initiative
Newark, NJ
March, 2015
Tri-City Peoples Corporation
Community Planning Action Program
American Planning Association, New Jersey Chapter
2. Team
Michael Benson
Lee Edgecombe, AIA, ASLA, AICP
Genevieve Lee
Kendra Lelie
Upendra Sapkota, AICP, LEED AP
Eric Sturm
Tom Schulze, AICP
Renita Aughburns
Toni L. Caldwell
Dave Henry
3. Planning Process
1. APA-NJ was invited by Tri City People's
Corporation to prepare a strategic plan.
2. Numerous neighborhood tours
3. Reviewed existing reports and plans
4. Interviewed stakeholders
5. Two Community meetings
6. Researched Best Practices in Other Areas
4. Reviewed Efforts from Other Cities
• Healthy Neighborhoods- Baltimore
• Sustainable South Bronx- New York
• Skillman's Youth Development
Alliance/After School Program –Detroit
• Prison Entrepreneurship Program,
Houston
• Crime Prevention Through Environmental
Design (CPTED)
5. Previous Plans for West Side Park Area
.
• Redevelopment Design Plan for the Park – Center for
Urban Policy Research at Rutgers
• Kent-Brenner Springfield Redevelopment Plan – Newark
City Planning Department
• West Side Park Community Action Plan – 1998
• Newark Master Plan – West Side Park Element
6. Project Steering Committee
• Sheila Montague – District Leader
• Pastor Veronice Horne – In the Hands of a Women Ministries
• Michael Thomas – West Side Park Community Center
• Chanda Dawadi – Brick City Development Corporation
• Mr. Allen – Principle 17th Street School
• Lori Scott Pickens – Rutgers School of Criminal Justice
• Captain Nash - Essex County Sheriff's Department
• Perris Straughter – Newark Planning Department
• Carolyn Wallace - International Youth Organization
7. Organization for this Presentation
.
• Neighborhood Boundaries
• Neighborhood Background
• What have We Learned?
• Neighborhood Strengths
• Neighborhood Issues
• Recommendations
• Next Steps
10. Demography - 2012
Population 11,217
Households 3,484
Families 2,598
Average Household Size 3.07
Owner Occupied Housing Units 781
Renter Occupied Housing Units 2,703
Median Age 29.0
Median Household Income $25,804
Average Household Income $39,636
Source : ESRI/Census.gov
The chart shows basic demographic
summary from 2012 census data.
• Renter occupied units is greater than
Owner occupied units .
• Median household income is way
below the average national
household Income, i.e. about $57,000
and state’s median household income
, i.e. about 68,000.
11. Household Income 2012
0.0% 5.0% 10.0% 15.0% 20.0% 25.0% 30.0%
<$15,000
$15,000-$24,999
$25,000-$34,999
$35,000-$49,999
$50,000-$74,999
$75,000-$99,999
$100,000-$149,999
$150,000-$199,999
$200,000+
Household Income 2012
Source : ESRI/Census.gov
Almost 30% of households earn less
than $15, 000 per year.
12. 9,804
1,494
760 511
205 65 22 8
African American Total Hispanic Population
Some Other Race White
Population Reporting Two or More Races American Indian
Asian Pacific Islander
Ethnicity
Source : ESRI/Census.gov
13. Housing Occupancy
3,538, 81%
821, 19%
Occupancy Rate
Occupied Housing Units Vacant Housing Units
0.0%
2.0%
4.0%
6.0%
8.0%
10.0%
12.0%
For Rent Other Vacant For Sale Only
Vacancy Type
Total Housing Unites : 4,359
Source : ESRI/Census.gov
More than 80% units are
occupied - Strength!
15. Foreclosure Properties
Source : City of Newark/HUD
• Data suggest that Newark is severally devastated by the destabilizing
effects of foreclosures – highest number of mortgages 90days
overdue.
• Tri City staff and volunteers observed significant numbers of boarded
up homes and businesses.
• Highest concentrations on South 16th Street and South 18th Street –
often numerous boarded, secured or abandoned buildings right next to
each other.
• NJ Spotlight - 50% of Newark mortgages are under water
• Realty Trac – September 2014 showed a 15% increase in foreclosures
in the West Side Park area, with about 15% of homes in some stage of
foreclosure.
18. Neighborhood Strengths
Neighborhood Organizations
• New Community Social Services/ Family Resources
• Family Services Bureau of Newark
• Urban Renewal Corporation
• NJCRI (New Jersey Community Research Initiative)
• St. Ann’s Shelter
• United Community Corporation
• (FP) Future Potential YOUTH OUT CRY Foundation
20. • Neighborhood Strengths
Houses of Worship
• Beth El Pentecostal House
• Beulah Baptist Church
• First Newborn Tabernacle Church
• Grace Reform Church
• Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses
• Macedonia Baptist Church
• Mount Calvary Church of God
• Mount Olivet Baptist Church
• New Born Baptist Church
24. Neighborhood Issues:
• Lack of community leadership & identity.
• Quality of life – crime, security, schools & recreational
facilities and programs.
• Poverty levels are high.
• Economic development is badly needed.
• Housing foreclosures are high.
• Many vacant buildings.
• Access to health care & healthy foods needs to be
improved.
25. Neighborhood Issues:
• Community Leadership & Identity
• The Neighborhood Empowerment Center, which created the West Side
Park Action Plan in the 1990s, did not continue as a leader to
implement the plan.
• Smaller individual community groups are not organized into a
substantial and continuously dedicated committee to identify challenges
and lead efforts to change.
• Objectives of City of Newark do not always align with the community in
West Side Park – the City’s Master Plan does not address the
neighborhood’s most pressing problems.
• No community “center” or identity - West Side Park has potential but
this is prevented due to security concerns.
26. Neighborhood Issues:
• Crime & Security
• Crime, security, and gun violence are major concerns in the
neighborhood – in the park and on the streets.
• There are not enough county and city police in the
neighborhood
• The Police substation on 16th Avenue should be used for
community policing activities.
• Police and citizen partnership does not exist to support
coordinated efforts to address community security concerns.
• Building and landscape issues in the neighborhood contribute to
crime—e.g. vacant, abandoned, and boarded up buildings,
lighting design in West Side Park
27. Neighborhood Issues:
Poverty, Jobs & Economic Development
• Poverty levels are high.
• Unemployment is high.
• There is a lack of local employment.
• Lack of coordinated effort with schools and universities to
develop effective job training.
• Population is slowly decreasing - people are moving out.
• Need for economic development that will provide services and
jobs.
28. Neighborhood Issues - Housing
• Vacant Buildings
• Need More Affordable Housing
• Mortgage and Tax Foreclosures Increasing
• Physically distressed buildings scar the
area
29. Neighborhood Issues:
• Quality of Life
• All of these issues together lead to a feeling
that the neighborhood is out of control.
• Crime & Security are very important
concerns.
• Schools are inadequate.
• Recreation is inadequate for children of all
ages.
30. Neighborhood Issues:
• Healthy Living
• Insufficient healthcare facilities in the
neighborhood.
• Seniors particularly vulnerable since they
don’t travel as easily.
• Limited healthy food options in the immediate
neighborhood.
31. Strategies to Address the Issues
• Continue to Organize the Neighborhood
• Economic Development to Create Jobs
• Public Safety and Security
• Housing
• Education
• Recreation
• Health & Social Issues
32. Strategies – Neighborhood Organizing
• Strengthen and expand the Steering Committee.
Make it more inclusive so it can take a leadership
role in finishing the plan and implementing
solutions. Potential members include:
• Newark Housing Authority
• City Council representatives
• Newark Police Department
• More Houses of Worship
• Block Associations
• Charter Schools
• Business Community
• Star Ledger
• Essex County Parks
Department
• Public Trust
• Newark Housing &
Community Development
• Greater Newark
Conservancy
• Others?
33. Strategies for Public Safety
● Partner with the Newark Police Department to:
● Staff a community policing center in the building that
was built on 16th Avenue
● Create and maintain neighborhood surveillance with
community volunteers
● Work with Rutgers School of Criminal Justice to:
● To identify programs that can strengthen
police/community relations
● To identify programs that have worked in other cities.
● To identify at-risk residents and work with them
34. Strategies - Economic Development
● Capitalize on the growth of retail on Springfield Avenue to:
● Organize business owners into a West Side Park business association.
● Develop strategies to attract more business to the area.
● Find out what businesses are needed in the area.
● Find out what is keeping small businesses from locating and growing in
the area.
● Survey the community:
o What professional skills do they possess?
o What types of jobs do they need or want to pursue?
o What programs could encourage job training and placement?
● Work with local agencies such as BCDC to get Small Business Assistance
and job training and increase the number of small businesses in the area.
35. Strategies - Housing
● Target blocks near major corridors or facilities (West Side
Park, 16th Ave., Springfield Ave.) for strategic redevelopment.
● Form a set of initiatives to encourage home improvement,
repairs and other maintenance
o Homeowners’ associations
o Homeownership training programs
● Foreclosures - expand the Foreclosure Task Force programs
to assist homeowners to prevent foreclosure with refinancing
or other measures.
● Vacant lots - explore the creation of a third party to take
over vacant property and supervise their redevelopment;
e.g. NYC Third Party Transfer Program.
36. Strategies - Education
● Engage more with local school representatives and Board of
Education in order to achieve better programming, obtain more
resources, and partner with outside institutions such as universities
and the Greater Newark Conservancy.
● Partner with schools and universities to develop programs that
target at-risk individuals for after-school and evening training.
● Collaborate with local social service agencies to work with children’s
families that require help, intervention or case management.
● Recreation - partner with other organizations such as the
Department of Recreation for physical or cultural activities to keep
kids interested and busy.
37. Strategies - Health & Social Services
● Reach out to Rutgers Medical School and other nearby
institutions to investigate ways to make medical facilities more
accessible to the West Side Park neighborhood
● Create a source of information for residents to find out about
health benefits available to them and help connect them to
preventive care.
38. Strategies - Recreation
○ West Side Park is an important community assets that is owned
and maintained by Essex County. Despite recent improvements,
other county parks receive more attention. The community,
along with the City of Newark, should work together to change
this.
○ Develop a stronger collaboration with the County Park’s
Department to consider the following initiatives:
○ A private non-profit group to oversee the County's maintenance and to
raise money for needed improvements to park facilities and programs –
this was just done for Military Park in Downtown Newark.
○ Seek capital financing to rehabilitate and improve the Community Center.
○ Create a network of community volunteers to create recreation programs .
○ Consider extending the hours of after school programs
○ Identify capital needs of the park - plantings, lighting, fields, etc.
○ Create a series community events to establish the West Side Park as
neighborhood center and stronghold.
○ Improve security in West Side Park.
39. What’s Next
• Organize the Steering Committee to serve as an umbrella group
to lead the neighborhood planning and implementation efforts.
• Form Working Groups for each category of strategies to define
them in more detail and advance them toward implementation.
These groups should include people from the neighborhood and
city and county staff.
• Continue refining the Strategic Plan until it is approved by the
larger, more inclusive Steering Committee. Then use the plan to
attract funding for a more complete neighborhood plan and
eventually implement strategies.
