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What do participants value about their neighborhoods? (Source:feedbacksheets) <br />• Safely <br />• Parks <br />. Schools <br />• Shopping <br />• Diversity <br />. Convenient location <br />■ Community and Government services. <br />When asked whatfactors people consider mostfrequently when renting an apartment, <br />owner/rnanagers identified the following factors. (Source:feedback sheets) <br />. Condition�clear�liness (6 times) <br />• Price (5 times) <br />■ Size and a�xtenities�feat-�ires (baths, yard, garage, bedrooms) (4 times) <br />• Location (4 times) <br />• Neighborl�ood�Safeiy (2times) <br />• Signage (2times) <br />• Other residents in the building (1 times) <br />What were the multi-family housing issues that einerged from the Dialogue? (Source:Small <br />group discussionre�ar�ts} <br />• Licensing and/or Inspection Program <br />o Associated costs will be a financial burden. <br />o Duplication of other inspections by such agencies as the Fire Department, HUD. <br />o What will be inspected? Where will the line be drawn? <br />o Good oviner/mana;ers do not need regulation. <br />• Treatment Equitable to Single-family Homeowners <br />o If license and/or inspection program for rental property, then there should be <br />similar programs for owner-occupied housing; and there should be equal <br />enforcement. <br />o Allow "Open House" signs for apartment buildings like realtors; "Open House" <br />signs or "Garage Sale" signs. <br />� Negative public attitude toward renters needs to be addressed. <br />. Poor Communications with City <br />o Police Department does not share information about incidents in buildings. <br />o Better policing of parking lots is needed. <br />. Impacts af Development <br />o New housing development �s negatively impacting the currentsoft rental <br />market. <br />o New developments are not required to have adequate on-site parking (e.�., small <br />commercial building at Fairview and County Road D). <br />Multi-familyHousu�gOwnersDia3ogue'"• •� •.���: p 2 <br />May 5,2005 <br />