The City of Youngstown

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The City of Youngstown Youngstown State University
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Format of Tonights Meeting

• Presentation30 Minutes
• Speakers
• Jay Williams, Director, Community Development
  Agency, City of Youngstown.
• Bill DAvignon, Planning Director, City of
  Youngstown.
• Your Comments90 Minutes

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Purpose for Tonights Meeting A planning process,
not a gripe session
ISSUES FOR DISCUSSION

• Identify clear, specific and achievable goals for
  the neighborhood
• Set the priorities
• Create a checklist of targets (big small) that
  can be achieved by 2010

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The Vision
Accepting that we are a smaller city Youngstown
should strive to be a model of a sustainable
mid-sized city
Defining Youngstowns role in the new regional
economy Youngstown must align itself with the
realities of the new regional economy
Improving Youngstowns image enhancing quality
of life Making Youngstown a healthier and better
place to live and work
A call to action An achievable and practical
action-oriented plan to make things happen
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Neighborhood Cluster 5
Oak Hill Warren Flint Hill Erie Lower Gibson
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Neighborhood Cluster 5
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Population1990 - 2000
95787
82026
Citywide (14.3)
Cluster 5 (29.8)
12,546
7,184
8,799
6,526
1990
2000
Median Income1989 - 1999
36,728
30,701
22,374
Citywide 37
22,347
17,561
22,532
Cluster 5 28
1990
2000
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Housing Units
40,830
Citywide (9)
37,158
Cluster 5 (-19)
5,400
3,075
3,139
4,367
1990
Housing Value
2000
31,560
40,900
Citywide 29
23,914
31,410
Cluster 5 31
1990
2000
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The Neighborhood - Current Land Use What it is
now ? What should it be?
37 of this cluster is vacant land land. How
should the land be reused?
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Cluster 5 Tax Delinquent Parcels
Reclaiming the tax delinquent, abandoned
properties will be a challenge. Nearly 42 of
the Property is tax Delinquent.
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Cluster 5 Structure Conditions
Cluster 5 neighborhoods have experienced
significant decline and for the most part have
reached stability. Note Not all structures are
houses.
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The challenge for Cluster 5 might be to
coordinate the new investments where abandonment
has stabilized.
Abandoned apartment building
New homes on the former Grant school property
Abandoned house between two well maintained homes
Landscaped tax delinquent land
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Current Neighborhood Projects Shovels in the dirt
or ground soon to be broken.

• Projects
• New Bethel Church
• Williamson Elementary School

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Project with St. Pats Church, the Needles Eye,
and the City will remove three blighted homes and
relocate the underutilized Oak-Ken Playground.
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Mill Creek Childrens Center and the YCS
Charter School is a significant investment in
the Oak Hill neighborhood.
Community Corrections Has invested in the Market
Street corridor And is maintaining many of the
vacant lots.
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Performance Place Industrial Park
Exal Corporation 61 Million New Investment 125
New Jobs Created
Cantar Polyair Corporation 10 Million New
Investment 184 New Jobs Created
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Issues for Discussion

• Recreational Activity in Your Neighborhood
• Residential Activity in Your Neighborhood
• Retail and Commercial Activity in Your
  Neighborhood
• Industrial Activity in Your Neighborhood
• Transportation Accessibility in Your
  Neighborhood
• Improving the Image and the Quality of Life in
  Your Neighborhood

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Recreational Activity in Your Neighborhood
Natural Amenities Committee Recommendations for
the Cluster 7

• Create green space connectors along key streets
  that link existing parks (I.e. Market, Glenwood,
  Indianola, Falls, and Oak Hill.
• Encourage Green Industrial development along
  the Mahoning River.
• Expand South Side Park into Gibson Field and
  continue expansion east to Poland Avenue.

Falls Playground
Mill Creek Park
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Recreational Activity in Your Neighborhood Is
there enough? What should it be? Where should it
go?
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Residential Activity in Your Neighborhood To
stabilize at a population of 80,000, Youngstown
has an excess of over 3,000 housing units. Any
new housing construction effectively calls for
the elimination of existing stock elsewhere.
Housing Committee Recommendations

• Enforce existing housing codes and business codes
  for appearance.
• Require Planning Commission approval of
  single-family construction to direct development
  rather than in-fill at will approach.
• Maintain existing green space and play areas.

Lower Gibson Consider expanding light
industrial into the neighborhood Flint Hill
Concentrate on housing Rehab and in-fill
housing Oak Hill Concentrate on housing Rehab
and in-fill housing. Warren Large lot
development and generous open spaces.
Package land for church/parking expansions.
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Regional Retail and Commercial Activity
Major Regional Retail Centers Niles And Boardman
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City Retail and Commercial Activity

• Main Arterials
• Market Street
• Mahoning Ave.
• South Ave.
• McCartney Road
• Belmont Ave.
• Wick/Logan
• Midlothian Blvd.
• Canfield Road
• Glenwood Ave.
• Downtown

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Cluster 5 Neighborhood Retail Commercial
Activity
Market St. South Ave. Glenwood
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Industrial Activity in Your Neighborhood

• Poland Avenue area in the Lower Gibson
  Neighborhood is the only industry activity in the
  cluster. The former steel mill property is being
  developed as an industrial park.

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Transportation accessibility in Your
Neighborhood Western Reserve Transportation Bus
Routes What improvements could be made?

• Other Transportation Links
• U.S. 62 Indianola Ave
• /Market St
• U.S. 62/SR 7 Market St
• I-680

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Improving the Image and the Quality of Life in
Your Neighborhood

• Make education everybodys business
• Improve neighborhood safety
• Celebrate the diversity within our community
• Capitalize on the authentic urban environment
• Create a greener community
• Restore and re-energize the Mahoning River
• Fix broken windows
• Make government more efficient

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Issues for Discussion

• Recreational Activity in Your Neighborhood
• Residential Activity in Your Neighborhood
• Retail and Commercial Activity in Your
  Neighborhood
• Industrial Activity in Your Neighborhood
• Transportation Accessibility in Your
  Neighborhood
• Improving the Image and the Quality of Life in
  Your Neighborhood

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Next Steps

• Identify clear, specific and achievable goals for
  the plan
• Set the priorities
• Create a checklist of targets (big small) that
  can be achieved by 2010
• Monitor and Celebrate Successful Achievements

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Next Steps Continued

• Comments will be distilled into a draft land use
  plan
• The plan and projects will be posted on the 2010
  homepage for review.
• Comments will be taken and further distilled
• The city wide land use plan will be unveiled
  January 27th, 7pm at Stambaugh Auditorium

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Send us your comments! Youngstown 2010 City Hall,
6th Floor 26 S. Phelps Street Youngstown, OH
44503 Phone [phone]
Fax
330-742-8997 Email youngstown2010_at_cityofyoungstow
noh.com Watch for draft plan and project postings
at www.youngstown2010.com