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Do you think Buffalo Niagara is moving in the right direction?
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Is vacancy or abandonment an issue in your neighborhood?
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On a scale from 1 to 5 how important do you think it is we reinvest in areas of vacancy and abandonment in the region? (1 - not important 5 - most important)
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What would you do to address vacancy and abandonment in the most distressed neighborhoods of our region?
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What would you do to address vacant former industrial sites in our region?
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What is your zip code? (This gives us an idea of where participants are from in the region.)
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| 1 | A Yes | Yes Yes | 5 | Encourage repairs, attempt to attract businesses and residents, if repair is not possible consider alternatives such as demolition and conversion in community gardens, playgrounds, public park space, private investment, or adjacent properties purchasing to expand their yard. | Clean them up. Do not building housing if it's toxic. Spaces that are toxic are good sites for solar panels or clean energy. However, if sites are not toxic - it should be mixed use. One form of business should not dominate an entire area. History shows that if entire areas are dedicated to just one use, once that business leaves or goes bankrupt it creates a giant void and empty space. | 14220 | |||||||
| 2 | A Yes | No No | 5 | Neighborhood discussions, what do they want to see. Rebuild and improve the quality of the homes to attract new populations especially in the Fruit Belt | Clean up the soil/land to make it safe for possible housing especially near the water. If not by the water use for other large companies looking to have their businesses in Buffalo | 14228 | |||||||
| 3 | The webster st bridge in north tonawanda is weak needs 2 b checkd No | ||||||||||||
| 4 | B No | No No | 3 | K who are u | |||||||||
| 5 | A Yes | Yes Yes | 5 | They need to find owners responsible and keep up with property mantaince | Clean up | 14207 | |||||||
| 6 | A Yes | N No | 3 | Naturalize, land bank, start new investment in distressed areas adjacent to strong areas | Depends on where they are but in general clean them and land bank pending opportunity for redevelopment. Get full environmental value from cleared site and full historic and cultural value from historic ---ets. | 14222 | |||||||
| 7 | A Yes | No No | 3 | ||||||||||
| 8 | A Yes | No No | 4 | Fund push and Habitat more. They know how to do t this work and no developers get rich or need tax breaks. | Offer opportunities for collective applications by multiple entrepreneurs to apply for leases or purchase with some tax breaks | 14032 | |||||||
| 9 | A Yes | No No | 4 | Beautification projects and small pop up projects that bring awareness to the potential of the neighborhood. | Seek funding for appropriate redevelopment of the site after a meaningful feasibility study. | 14450 | |||||||
| 10 | A Yes | No No | 4 | Tear down homes that are unfit for occupancy. Take steps to rent/sell livable properties to responsible parties. | Tear down, create new green spaces. | 14207 | |||||||
| 11 | A Yes | No No | 3 | Clean and green | Plan for renewal | 14214 | |||||||
| 12 | A Yes | Y Yes | 5 | Encourage the community to make use our of our worth of vacant and underutilized spaces. | Adaptive reuse- residential, retail | 14201 | |||||||
| 13 | A Yes | No No | 5 | Initiate programs to aid in an increase in home ownership and affordable commercial space for small businesses | ld program and affordable access for the arts. I love the creative reuse happening at silo city as well as the brownfield redevelopment of Bethlehem steel underway. I encourage renewal of the brownfie | 14214 | |||||||
| 14 | A Yes | No No | 2 | Sell the properties for extremely reduced prices to local residents, and create small neighborhood parks/gardens. | Properly remediate the contaminate soil, create more public space on sites along the river/lake, and look for new business/industry to move onto other sites. | 14214 | |||||||
| 15 | A Yes | No No | 3 | Offer tax breaks or other incentives, get community groups involved, make it easy to purchase abandoned/vacant space | Find new purposes for them - look at how awesome city of night was this past weekend | 14226 | |||||||
| 16 | A Yes | No No | 5 | 1. Fair and steady law enforcement or more legitimate block clubs 2. make sure education centers, after school programs, and play grounds are safe and accessible to children 3. Clean up the area's left over garbage from winter and restore/repaint public owned facilities | Try and make them as safe and possible with environmental tests and clean ups. Also make them open to tours and art programs, possibly using voluteer pro | grams through local high schools and colleges. | |||||||
| 17 | A Yes | No No | 4 | Invest in those neighborhoods. Take care of vacant lots. Attract retail space. Look to Grant street for example | Attract new manufacturing, or redevelop as public space | 14201 | |||||||
| 18 | B No | Yes Yes | 5 | Buy property build new houses | Rebuild | 14215 | |||||||
| 19 | A Yes | Yes Yes | 3 | Could they be donated to habitat for humanity? | Clean them up and create mixed use space | 14224 | |||||||
| 20 | A Yes | Yes Yes | 1 | I work with vacant land for gardens and open space if I could I would turn vacant corridors into community park ways | Remediate them slowly as conservation zones and stop the politicians who see these as appropriate sites for housing and schools | 14206 | |||||||
| 21 | A Yes | No No | 5 | Allow neighbors to buy abandoned properties (Chicago implemented a program allowing purchase by neighbors for $1$ | Parkland and green space | 14226 | |||||||
| 22 | B No | No No | 4 | Unsure | Unsure | 14224 | |||||||
| 23 | A Yes | Y Yes | 3 | ||||||||||
| 24 | A Yes | No No | 5 | Tackle bigger issues. the racial divide, Income gap, the food desert, lack of jobs, lack of public resources, encourage or require mixed inome development. | Repopulate them by renovating them into residential and commercial | 14222 | |||||||
| 25 | A Yes | No No | 4 | New residential and commercial | RFP | 14222 | |||||||
| 26 | A Yes | Yes Yes | |||||||||||
| 27 | A Yes | No No | 3 | Parcel it for free to individuals and organization who develop the land | Sue the entities that vacated the land to return it to it original state | 14209 | |||||||
| 28 | A Yes | Yes Yes | 4 | Make homebuyers aware and the process to purchase more accessible through education, incentives for revitalization, and community engagement. | Brownfield cleanup program | 14210 | |||||||
| 29 | A Yes | No No | 5 | Subsidized housing | Develop renewable energy industry | 14086 | |||||||
| 30 | C Other | Yes Yes | 5 | Empower and educate residents for owner occupied housing | Repurpose and reuse | 14201 | |||||||
| 31 | A Yes | Yes Yes | 3 | Invest in the absolute cores of our urban areas | Extend BCP | 14213 | |||||||
| 32 | B No | Yes Yes | 3 | Resident placement, distressed structure demolition, debris removal & recycling, displaced resident rehousing. | Residential & business occupancy. | 14207 | |||||||
| 33 | B No | No No | 3 | nothing, let nature run it's corse | Less brownfields, explore reshoreing | 14226 | |||||||
| 34 | A Yes | Yes Yes | 5 | Work for neighborhood development. Small scale, community based solutions. Fix the schools to help the kids stay away from drugs and gangs | Extend the brownfield programs at the state level. Provide incentives to make development feasible and attractive | 14203 | |||||||
| 35 | A Yes | No No | 5 | Put business in areas. Maintain the areas that are vacant so they are presentable. Find the owners of dilapidated buildings and hold them accountable by issuing tickets for the neglect. | orhood within the industrial site to come together and come up with ideas and plans that are sustainable and create revenue. Try to find ways that other major cities have worked on their vacant former industrial sites and succeeded. And challenge the public including the neighb | 14201 | |||||||
| 36 | A Yes | Y Yes | 5 | ans back | Make owners financially responsible for the upkeep of the property just like Uncle Sam garnishes wages for people who avoid paying their taxes or govt lo | 14226 | |||||||
| 37 | A Yes | Yes Yes | 4 | Demolish and rebuild if money allows | Superfund clean up | 14212 | |||||||
| 38 | A Yes | No No | 5 | (1/2) Offer them for sale to homesteaders for one dollar as part of a binding agreement to rehab them. Include a rehab grant amounting to less than the cost of | (2/2) demolition. | 14214 | |||||||
| 39 | A Yes | No No | 4 | Create legislation against zombie properties, offer incentives to recent college grads to homestead, renovate homes and offer them to the homeless | Renovate (ensuring safety) to mixed use community spaces, trendy residential properties, and art spaces | 14216 | |||||||
| 40 | A Yes | No No | 5 | Fix arterial roadways | Clean up | 14222 | |||||||
| 41 | A Yes | Yes Yes | 4 | Building reuse, make something new in these places to attract people, re build and renovate | Building reuse and renovations to bring attraction and people | 14224 | |||||||
| 42 | C Other | Yes Yes | 4 | Give people money to rehab and LIVE IN houses. Invest in mass transit. | Remediate enviro contamination. | 14209 | |||||||
| 43 | B No | No No | 1 | Encourage them to move to less distressed areas give them subsidies to move | Build housing for middle income families with limited shopping centers or relocate university of buffalo or relocate the bills stadium | 14216 | |||||||
| 44 | A Yes | Yes Yes | 3 | Identify the source as to why it's occurring and try to address that problem | Activities, programs, and multi purpose, multi use spaces | 14225 | |||||||
| 45 | A Yes | Yes Yes | 5 | Reconfigure and access what the neighborhood has and needs. | Transform these sites into multi purpose uses with co-ops affordable and geared towards new businesses | 14203 | |||||||
| 46 | A Yes | Yes Yes | 4 | If the bldgs are sound work to have families move in. Otherwise tear down & convert to parks or community gardens | Allow scrappers to salvage what's left to keep removal cost down, then invite investors in with plans to re-use the land | 14032 | |||||||
| 47 | A Yes | Yes Yes | 5 | Create community gardens on every few blocks and have city or civilians maintain them | Do something like what silo city is used for | 14213 | |||||||
| 48 | A Yes | No No | 5 | Get communities engaged in trying to make changes | Turn them into small businesses | 14221 | |||||||
| 49 | A Yes | No No | 3 | Contact banks | Find an investor | 14220 | |||||||
| 50 | A Yes | Yes Yes | 1 | 5I meant 5 | Hold landlords accountable for their buildings that have code violations. Depending on the neighborhood with industrial site I would turn into park, natural habitat or reuse as high tech industrial | 14202 |
