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o Safety (8 times) <br />o General environment and cozz��ntrni�y�small town feel (8 times) <br />o Quiet (7 times) <br />Other qualities that were mentioned three or four times include: <br />o Amenities, e.g. Cultural (4 times) <br />o Diversity and M� of Ages (3 times) <br />o Schools (3times) <br />o Sidewalks (3 times) <br />What were the housing-related issues that emerged from the Dialogue? (Source:Small group <br />discussion reports) <br />• Housing Maintenance and Upgrades <br />o Aging housing stock <br />o Some elderly people are not able to maintain their homes due to financial and <br />health barriers <br />o General mainte�ance/clean-up is needed citywide—poorpublic image <br />• Rental Property — Colleges (Northwestern and Bethel) <br />o Colleges are buying up single-family homes in blocks close to their campuses <br />and converting to rental, this shifts the balance of household types and <br />ownership. This is also occurring along Snellin� Avenue. <br />o Inadequate parking around some student housing creates dangerous conditions <br />on some streets <br />— o Not properly maintained <br />— o Regulation regarding number of renters per house is not enforced <br />— o Increase in cars means more parking issues, more traffic <br />— Rental Property — other <br />— o Absentee landlords do zlot maintain properties <br />— o Multi-family property owners need to have copies of code requirements <br />o Met Council rental properties are not properly maintained <br />o Non-homestead properties have more deferred maintenance <br />. Regulatory �'olicies f R�quirezne�ts <br />o"Truth-in-Housing" program is needed to protect buyers <br />o Codes about pets (dogs and cats) are not being enforced <br />o Boat storage needs to be regulated <br />o Codes about unlicensed junk cars need to be either enforced or created and <br />enforced <br />Housing market <br />o"Flipping" is occurring in some neighborhoods <br />City Communications with Residents <br />o Slow processing of requests for variances <br />o New property owners (single-family and multi-family) are not being given <br />copies of City Code/Regulations <br />North Central Area Dialogue Summary p. 2 <br />May 3,2005 <br />