INTERIM REPORT of the QUALITY OF LIFE MAPPING GROUP:
NEIGHBORHOOD IMPACTS, RESPONSES & PARTNERSHIPS

E. PREVENTION, INTERVENTION AND RESTORATION RESPONSES

PREVENTION

Education and Written Communications 

• New Citizen Welcome Packet and Publications 
• Workshops for Off Campus Living 
• Annual Registration and Information Packet to Landlords 
• Bike Use and routes 
• Ads for bus/ride shares 
• Green House Gases- 10% Challenge
• Code Enforcement Education with landlords 
• NPA's, BNP, NA's § Information Publications
• Spring Move Out Flyer
• Recycling Info from CSWD
• Info From DPW
• Fire Marshal's Education programs
• BNP Neighborhood Forums
• Public Service Ads 
• City Welcome Packet
• Neighborhood Handbook
• BNP Training
• City Clerk Info when licensing
• Dog Park
• Mandatory Bar Trainings
• Scoop the poop
• Racism Study Circles
• Community Coalition
• New Directions, HUD program

Neighborhood Organizing

• Neighborhood Planning Assemblies and Burlington Neighborhood Project
• Neighborhood Associations (like Buell St. Association)
• Neighbor Walks (like NAP)
• Organize in high impact areas to address resident issues
• House meetings with Code
• BNP Training

Establish Best Practices

• Model Lease to guide landlords & tenants on behavior and code regulations
• Leadership Dev. Trainings (landlords, tenants rights, etc.)
• CEDO Smoke Detector Hardwire program
• Zoning/Development Regs. (including Family Ord., building codes)
• Police logs
• UVM A Matter of Degree Program Initiatives

INTERVENTION

Strengthen Enforcement

• Police Enforcement
• New Noise Ordinance
• Target UVM-BPD Joint Patrols in student areas between 10-2 AM during high impact months
• Landlord Notification of reoccurring problems
• Issue Code Enforcement tickets
• Problem Properties group
• Ticketing/Towing
• Changing Zoning Regs. (e.g., don't allow waivers)
• Zoning Enforcement
• Pink, Parking awareness cards
• Code Enforcement tickets
• Code Enforcement orders and inspections
• City pursuing nuisance abatement
• Safety Inspections
• SARA
• Alcohol/Drug enforcement

Support Alternative Process

• Conflict Resolution Meetings
• Neighborhood / Group Facilitation for community members or houses with more than one renter

Strengthen Judicial Process

• UVM Judicial Process for students who have been cited for a violation

Provide Counseling and Supportive Services

• Outreach workers
• Transitional Housing
• Homeless Shelter
• Salvation Army
• Food-shelf
• Physical and Environmental changes
• Rehab
• Needle Exchange
• Methadone Clinic
• Howard Community Alcohol Assessment
• Howard Crisis Services

Provide Alternative Clean Ups

• CBATs
• BNP
• Spring Move Out
• Recycling Events
• Weekly Corrections Crew with Code Enforcement
• DPW Street Cleaning

Miscellaneous

• UVM late night shuttle
• Traffic Calming
• Speed trailer
• Good Neighbor Pass for UVM off Campus shuttle
• Animal Control Info
• Scoop the Poop campaign
• Boxes present in parks
• Parental Notification by UVM for alcohol and drug violations
• Alternative Process

RESTORATION

Support Restorative Justice Approaches

• Restorative Justice Panels
• Community Service

Provide Counseling and Supportive Services

• Mental Health services
• COTS Family Program
• Office of Employment
• UVM Drug Treatment Center
• Howard Community Services
• Detox programs
• Encare
• Crash
• AA

Provide Alternative Clean Ups

• Court Diversion clean-ups
• Green Up Efforts
• Branch Out Burlington-UVM Hort. Fm. Nursery
• BNP grants for street enhancements
• North St Clean Up
• Street associations
• Block Parties, Clean-Ups, Vista service days, NNS

Miscellaneous

• First response program
• City Parking with parking ban
• Neighborhood Impacts group
• Remediation Project (UVM Geology
• Reseeding green space & installing fences
• CEDO programs for improvement and AHTF Recommendations
• UVM's 400 new student beds
• Neighborhood Impacts group
• Juvenile program
• Burlington Neighborhood Grant Program
• Community Development Block Grant

Page last updated May 15, 2003