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Neighborhood Livability Working Group <br />Crime Prevention through Environmental Design (CPTED) <br />Problem Description <br />Burglaries, car break-ins, and late night disruptive behavior are three of the chronic problems in the university area <br />neighborhoods. Significant contributing factors include: <br />The high percentage of renters who often fail to secure their homes, cars or other property adequately. <br /> <br />The high percentage of young adult residents, including those who party late into the night and <br /> <br />demonstrate a lack of consideration for neighbors. <br />A high percentage of temporary residents who lack a stake in the neighborhood or an awareness of who <br /> <br />belongs in the neighborhood. <br />A significant amount of substandard rental housing, with inadequate locks on windows and doors. <br /> <br />Predictably empty housing during school breaks, which makes for easy burglary targets. <br /> <br />More recently, violent behavior, possibly gang affiliated, primarily late in the evening. <br /> <br /> <br />Each of these would be affected in different ways by different strategies. Basic Crime Prevention Through <br />Environmental Design (CPTED) measures might help, but mostly as applied to individual homes and cars. Advanced <br />CPTED measures focus on building social connectivity and are more applicable to neighborhood or community <br />changes. <br /> <br />Strategy Description <br />Identify information and effective delivery methods that need to be conveyed to potential victims of crime. <br /> <br />The evidence that we need this is that crimes keep occurring that might have been preventable if basic <br />crime prevention measures had been implemented. <br />Identify information and effective delivery methods that need to be conveyed to potential late night <br /> <br />partiers. The evidence that we need this is that nuisance partying keeps occurring that might have been <br />preventable if offenders had been convinced to behave in a more courteous fashion, either out of respect <br />or out of fear of consequences. <br />Identify areas that lack a central social gathering space within each neighborhood, or where they do exist <br /> <br />identify ways to boost their viability for bringing residents together. The more residents meet each other, <br />the more likely they are to demonstrate mutual respect and look out for welfare. <br />Look for ways to encourage and empower residents to report suspicious activity, as well as criminal <br /> <br />activity. <br />Determine ways to reach and convince more landlords to raise the CPTED and hardware security <br /> <br />ting requests for security inspections and advice. <br />Determine ways to reach and convince more students to take security measures when they leave their <br /> <br />homes unsupervised, as well as when their homes are left open to unscreened visitors (such as when one <br />roommate throws a party). <br />Identify locations where criminals can hide or where criminal behavior is hard to see. This might lead to <br /> <br />suggested changes in physical design of a space, location of dumpsters, level and type of lighting, <br />placement of windows or cameras, or design of fences, and could involve public or private property. <br />Evaluate existing codes related to lighting, screening, etc., that may be contributing to the creation of <br /> <br />unsafe spaces, and recommend changes. <br /> <br />Related Goals/Policies <br />Growth Management Policy 9: Mitigate the impacts of new and/or higher density housing, infill, and <br /> <br />redevelopment on neighborhoods through design standards, open space and housing maintenance <br />programs, and continuing historic preservation and neighborhood planning programs. <br />West University Task Force recommendations (June 2003): <br /> <br />More and/or improved lighting provide additional lighting fixtures in the area on both public and <br />private property. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />27 <br />Page <br />
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