The following text illustrates how the Detroit Blight Removal Task Force’s recommendations support key recommendations from Detroit Future City and the Mayor’s Every Neighborhood Has a Future plan.
A full listing of the 10 points from the Mayor’s Every Neighborhood Has a Future plan is below.
Point 1: Establish a single Department of Neighborhoods (DON).
Point 2: Base the DON in 7 Neighborhood District Offices to create true partnerships with Neighborhood Groups/Block Clubs.
Point 3: Seize Abandoned Houses/Drug Houses through nuisance abatement program Mike Duggan started as Prosecutor.
Point 4: Create positive incentives to move families from sparsely populated areas into stronger neighborhoods.
Point 5: Rebuild neighboring business districts, beginning by seizing abandoned storefronts and moving in entrepreneurs.
Point 6: Streamline demolition process and strategically target neighborhoods.
Point 7: Crack down on illegal scrappers and their scrap yards.
Point 8: Create much tougher code enforcement.
Point 9: Require banks to participate in neighborhood redevelopment.
Point 10: Reform Detroit Land Bank so we can re-use vacant land.
Two points of contact for community engagement:
An ongoing, open information portal enabled by technology, available at all times to all residents.
Neighborhood-based point of contact through the Neighborhood District Manager Offices.
Supports Point 1: Establish a single Department of Neighborhoods (DON)
Supports Point 2: Base the DON in 7 Neighborhood District Manger Offices to create true partnerships with Neighborhood Groups/Block Clubs
“Extend the capacity for civic engagement by building on four key components of long-term civic capacity: city government, philanthropy, Detroit institutions (including business and nonprofit sectors), and Detroit residents.”
“Develop and share knowledge and information inclusively, continually, with transparency, and demonstrating that the input has value and is being used.”
“Engage people with a mosaic of tactics that have varied and broad appeal and possibilities, and that are woven together to have combined effectiveness.”
“Extend the capacity for civic engagement by building on four key components of long-term civic capacity: city government, philanthropy, Detroit institutions (including business and nonprofit sectors), and Detroit residents.”
Supports Point 2: (Base the DON in 7 Neighborhood District Manager Offices to create true partnerships) by providing a shared knowledge base.
Supports insight to realize Point 3: Seize Abandoned Houses/Drug Houses through nuisance abatement program Mike Duggan started as Prosecutor.
Supports information basis for Point 6: Streamline demolition process and strategically target neighborhoods
Helps pinpoint priority parcels for Point 8: Create much tougher code enforcement.
The goals of Maximizing Community Impact (MCI) are to:
Provides geographic analysis to support the Mayor’s entire code enforcement and nuisance abatement efforts, including Point 3: Seize Abandoned Houses/Drug Houses through nuisance abatement program.
Provides geographic analysis to aid in decisions about how to enact Point 6: Streamline demolition process and strategically target neighborhoods.
Shows how priority areas for investment will dovetail with and benefit from Mayor’s efforts on Point 8: Create much tougher code enforcement.
“Alliance with Framework Zones that guide citywide and investment decisions in terms of the best ways to make positive change in areas with a range of physical and market characteristics.”
“Address quality-of-life issues for all Detroiters with a set of citywide strategies that work in all Detroit neighborhoods.”
“Use vacant public land and structures in neighborhoods to stabilize them.”
“Link public facility and other decisions to larger strategies.”
Recommends specific legal and procedural changes to support the Mayor’s code enforcement and nuisance abatement efforts, including Point 3: Seize Abandoned Houses/Drug Houses through nuisance abatement program.
Recommends specific legal and procedural changes to support Point 6: Streamline demolition process and strategically target neighborhoods.
Recommends specific legal and procedural changes to support the Point 8: Create much tougher code enforcement.
The SATT is an entirely new diagnostic tool that will support the Mayor’s entire 10-point Neighborhood Plan because it will assure a first-ever ability to make consistent yet fine-grained decisions by parcel.
“Actively manage change, by continuing discussions that have already begun for removing regulatory barriers to interagency cooperation at the city and regional levels, as well as establishing an interagency platform for coordinated decision making about city services.”
The SATT tool offers two formal points for Community Engagement to shape and refine decisions at the beginning and near the end of SATT analysis, through presentations at community meetings:
“Develop and share knowledge and information inclusively, continually, with transparency, and demonstrating that the input has value and is being used.”
“Engage people with a mosaic of tactics that have varied and broad appeal and possibilities, and that are woven together to have combined effectiveness.”
Supports progress on Point 6: Streamline demolition process and strategically target neighborhoods.
“Support the Four Key Economic Pillars [including] industrial “Encourage local entrepreneurship and minority-owned business.”
“Improve education and skills development.”
“Transform the city’s land into an economic asset.”
“Address quality of life issues for all Detroiters with a set of citywide strategies that work in all Detroit neighborhoods.”
“Create innovative landscapes (blue and green infrastructure) that actively clean the air and water to provide better environmental quality and public health for Detroit.”
“Transform largely vacant areas through blue and green infrastructure.”
“Make landscape interventions central to Detroit’s survival.”
Supports local and state framework to target irresponsible owners and support:
Point 3: Seize Abandoned Houses/Drug Houses through nuisance abatement program Mike Duggan started as Prosecutor.
Point 5: Rebuild neighboring business districts, beginning by seizing abandoned storefronts and moving in entrepreneurs.
Point 7: Crack down on illegal scrappers and their scrap yards.
Point 8: Create much tougher code enforcement.
“Transform the city’s land into an economic asset.”
“Develop innovative regulatory reform.”
“Actively manage change, by continuing discussions that have already begun for removing regulatory barriers to interagency cooperation at the city and regional levels, as well as establishing an interagency platform for coordinated decision making about city services.”
“Address quality-of-life issues for all Detroiters with a set of citywide strategies that work in all Detroit neighborhoods.”
The Mayor’s Office must lead, in collaboration with the Emergency Manager’s office, to address blight head-on.
The centerpiece of this work will be the newly enhanced Detroit Land Bank Authority, working in concert with the Mayor’s office and the Department of Neighborhoods.
Point 1: Establish a single Department of Neighborhoods (DON).
Point 2: Base the DON in 7 Neighborhood District Offices to create true partnerships with Neighborhood Groups/Block Clubs.
Point 9: Require banks to participate in neighborhood redevelopment.
Point 10: Reform Detroit Land Bank so we can re-use vacant land.
“Actively manage change, by continuing discussions that have already begun for removing regulatory barriers to interagency cooperation at the city and regional levels, as well as establishing an interagency platform for coordinated decision making about city services.”
“Extend the capacity for civic engagement by building on four key components of long-term civic capacity: city government, philanthropy, Detroit institutions (including business and nonprofit sectors), and Detroit residents.”