minutes Built Environment Action Team Minutes 11 29 2007

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Meeting Minutes

Action Team Name: Built Environment

Meeting Date: Nov 29, 2007 1845 N 23rd Street

Note Taker name: Jim Plumb Telephone #: 215-955-6340 Email: [email protected]

Attendees:

Last name Missing, Brenda; Brown, Leona; Brown, Helen; Chalmers, Valeria; Chalmers, Robert; Cheeseborough, Jackie; Clark, Florence; Frink, Denise; Green, Dolores

Harrigan, Karen; Hoffman, Roy; Ingram, Karl; James, Calvin; Jaraton, Bonnie; Kappler, Anne; Kirch, Jonathan; Major, Mary; McBlain, Gladys; Pennick-Howard,

Shelli; Plumb, James; Rogers, Joan; Ross, Alma; Savage, Chris; Shabazz, Jerome; Shamwell, Dorothea; Sloan-Green, Tina; Small, Laverne; Smith, Gloria; Stewart, Kedian

Taylor, Tiffany; Walker, Darlene; Wiener, Skip.

Agenda Item Discussion: Main Points Follow-up Actions Responsibility

Introductions Brief introduction of Project

Presentation on Built Environment by Roy

Hoffman MD

Each attendee who, where from and why here

Continued engagement of attendees

James and

Plumb

Previous Meeting Follow-up

Review of working definition of Built

Environment means to change physical and

social environments, which shape behavioral

choices, particularly physical activity andnutrition, thus affecting overall health

Next Great City Coalition calls for next mayor

and City Council to take the following actions

1) Create Public Riverfronts

Issue Residents do not have access or views of

the rivers from many points along its shore

Action Rezone riverfronts and obtain rights of

way to preserve public waterfronts

2) Clean and Green Vacant Lots

Issue city has successfully cleaned 10% of

Follow-up on issues and actions; contact

Coalition Leadership

Plumb and

James


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vacant lots to date

Action continue and expand nationally

recognized programs

3) Adopt Modern Zoning

Issue Forty year old zoning code fasils to protect

neighborhood character and community parks and

gardens and does not offer incentives for good

building practicesAction Rewrite zoning text with extensive

community input

4) Maintain Healthy Parks

Issue Parks need better oversight, new sources of

money, and better coordination with nonprofit and

private stakeholders

Action Update Fairmount park Commissions

commissioner appointment process, increase

coordination, and allow money generated in parks

to be used for park improvement

5) Replant Neighborhood Trees

Issue City has cut down 23,000 problem treesand did not replace them

Action Replant 23,000 shade trees

Philadelphia Parks Alliance Better Parks for

a Better City A Reform Agenda for

Philadelphias Parks (March 2006)

Penn DOT Safe Routes to School program

Clean Air Councils Philly Walks Initiative

1) To work for a safe and functional

pedestrian environment

2) To promote walking as an activity and a

form of recreation

3) To educate government, transportation

officials and general public about

pedestrian concerns

4) To create greater public awareness of

Review comprehensive recommendations

Review status of2004 Fairmount park

Strategic Plan

City Council Vote on restructuring of

Fairmount park Commission Ballot

Initiative

Status???

Determine what they are doing


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pedestrian issues

The Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia

1) Promoting the bicycle as anenvironmentally friendly, healthy, and

economical form of transportation and

recreation through advocacy and education

Determine what they are doing

New Topics Open Forum:

Teenagers selling drugs

Frightened for safety

Playgrounds are littered

Feel stuck in my home

No safe walking pathways to park

Will be going against City Hall and

developers

King Center not safe who is on Advisory

Board???

Neighborhood has no initiative

What is the safety/policing plan for the

neighborhood

Next Steps

Who are Recreation Center Advisory Board

members?

Clean the neighborhood and open spaces

Traffic calming

Clean up the Blocks

Power of pen and paper

Find out who is involved?

What would we do with open spaces?

Convene another meeting focusing on open

spaces

Shelli Pennock

(Project

HOME)

Plumb,

James,

Weiner- Setup next

meeting to

assess/address

this question

Synergy: List examples of

synergy provided at meeting

History of block\

Link to Urban Tree Connection

Link to Overbrook Environmental Education

Center

Data/Information Requests Next Great City Plan status

Fairmount Park Strategic Plan

Philadelphia Parks Alliance Plan


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Clean Air Council Philly Walks Recommendations

Rec Department Strategic Plan

Next Meeting Date TBD early January West Philadelphia

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