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This section of the study reviews development activities in the community, examines these activities in relationship to the current zoning and seeks a dialogue on the impact these developments on the qualilty of life in the community.  As the text will continue to change downloading is not recommended at this time.

 

Use this page to access images or to request new ones that help to describe community development issues by location.

 

policy
Policies are actions eventually taken.  In this sense they are more concerned with ends than the means to accomplish the ends emplied.  A comprehensive community development policy helps to assure residents will find fully understand the full range of activities in the community's development as seen from the community board's perspective. 

 

This online tool of the Community Board has been produced as an aid in gaining the participation of people in the planning process. 

 

documents
Part of this policy involves the documentation of data in written and map form as an aid to the discovery of individual efforts to define problems that are unique to a particular area.   This "Data Maps" link described below has been created to provide easy access to one of the sources for these images to meet the objectives of the plan.

 

example
a map illustrating all buildings that are organized sufficiently to negotiate with the owners would help new tenant groups find others nearby or who share the same owner. By default the map would also help to illustrate the unorganized buildings to aid community organizations.  Send in your contact information.  

We will be pleased to assist you by digging into these resources with you to answer questions.  For example, the link "dataplace" below is a rich resource of information.  Have a look! 
 DATA PLACE
CD12

 

Maps come from a variety of websites. One of best is The Fannie Mae Foundation's website known as Knowledegeplex and its mapping and demographic resource known as Data Place suggested above.  Additions to these links are sought that are most relevent to your planning efforts.  Send them to us,  we could put a hundred or so here, but the point is to put those you find most useful in this location to build a local network.   Focus your access to information about the social and economic characteristics of Community Planning District Twelve.  

 

Local housing issues are defined by federal resources such the U.S. Department of Commerce but local resources such as the New York City Neighborhood Housing Information System (NYCHNIS) helps to put it in perspective,  These links provide many free sources of concrete data that combine information about CD12 into useful packages. 

 

One bit of advice:  Be Concrete

To be concrete the information must be tjhe name of a person, a number, date, place, and time.  Everything else is abstract.  For example, the expression of an idea is an abstraction.  However, the word “idea” becomes concrete when it is ascribed to a person.  Such as Rex’s idea.  Finally, the meaning of information is not found in numbers, dates, or places.  Meaning is in people.