Goals and Implementation Strategies

Goals and Implementation Strategies for the Pettigrew Heights Neighborhood:

Neighborhood Identity

Involve a broad base of residents, churches, schools, nonprofit organizations, and business and community leaders in all phases of planning and implementation.
- The Neighborhood will continue to hold meetings in partnership with the City Planning Office. The meetings will be held on a regular basis and will include attendee driven content including that related to neighborhood identification.
Encourage and support businesses on 10th and 11th Streets and Minnesota Avenue that serve and benefit the neighborhood.
- The Neighborhood in coordination with the City Planning Office will individually contact business owners and property owners along 10th Street, 11th Street, and Minnesota Avenue in regard to formulating a collaborative approach to neighborhood identify.
- The City Planning Office will research and apply for grant opportunities that can be used to provide further enhancements to the identification of the neighborhood and specifically on 10th Street, 11th Street, and Minnesota Avenue.
Investigate historic designation for appropriate areas of Pettigrew Heights to protect historically and culturally significant resources that contribute to the community's identity and history.
- The City Planning Office, through the assistance of the Board of Historic Preservation, will conduct a phased historic survey of the Pettigrew Heights neighborhood. This survey will provide the basis for determining properties worthy of nomination to the National Register of Historic Places.
- The Neighborhood, with assistance from the City Planning Office, should pursue a partnership with the Siouxland Heritage Museums for educational programs offered in regard to the history of the Pettigrew Heights neighborhood including its residents, businesses, and general past.
- The Neighborhood will promote the education of its residents and business owners at the Pettigrew Heights Museum (located just outside of the neighborhood boundary to the north).
Incorporate streetscape improvements into the identification process, including light pole banners, monument signs, intersection artwork/monuments, etc.
- The Neighborhood, in coordination with the City Planning Office, will identify a sub-committee to work on identifying specific projects, related artwork or graphics, and potential costs.
- The sub-committee will then establish priorities of project completion and pursue partnerships to assist in the completion of projects through financial means.
- The Neighborhood will work to foster partnerships with arts organizations including the Sioux Empire Arts Council and the Visual Arts Commission to identify potential arts inspired streetscape improvements that would assist in creating an identity for the Pettigrew Heights neighborhood.
Keep the neighborhood free of debris and abandoned vehicles—indicating an aesthetically pleasing streetscape environment.
- The Neighborhood will continue working with the City of Sioux Falls on maintaining code enforcement efforts within the neighborhood. This will ensure proper maintenance of property and self-organized clean-up efforts.
- The Neighborhood will conduct an annual clean-up event in coordination with the City of Sioux Falls, Ellis & Eastern Railroad, 211 Helpline Center, the Sioux Falls Seminary, and local neighborhood religious organizations.

Land Use

Increase the number of owner-occupied residential structures in the neighborhood.
- The Neighborhood will employ the assistance of community housing partners such as Sioux Empire Housing Partnership, the Sioux Falls Multi- Housing Association, Lutheran Social Services, and the Sioux Falls Community Development Department to aid in this effort through educational opportunities and incentive programs.
- The Neighborhood will promote through the City Planning Office the establishment of incentive programs to encourage an increase in owner-occupied housing within the neighborhood.
- The Neighborhood will support the City Planning Office in the development of a Single Family Tax Abatement program specific to Pettigrew Heights.
Ensure future land uses are consistent and compatible with neighborhood development.
- The Neighborhood will work with the City Planning Office to maintain redevelopment areas within Pettigrew Heights.
- The Neighborhood will work with the City Planning Office to provide appropriate transitioning between existing or future land uses that could be conflicting.
- The Neighborhood will work with the City Planning Office to identify areas in the neighborhood in which additional off-street parking is required to support the existing or future development densities.
- The Neighborhood, in coordination with the City Planning Office and Board of Historic Preservation will promote the preservation of existing structure and neighborhood features whenever financially feasible.

Parks and Recreation

Expand existing recreational/leisure opportunities to meet the growing and changing needs of the neighborhood.
- The Neighborhood will establish a sub-committee to identify existing recreational programming within the neighborhood that can be promoted to residents and business owners alike. The sub-committee will then work on fostering partnerships with other community oriented organizations including but not limited to the Sioux Falls School District, the Bowden Youth Center, the Sioux Falls Seminary, the Sioux Empire Community Theatre, the Sioux Empire United Way, and the City of Sioux Falls Park and Recreational Department to establish new recreational opportunities.
Explore and identify specific neighborhood sites for possible indoor and outdoor recreation programming.
- The Neighborhood, in coordination with the City will work to locate an appropriate neighborhood open space including adequate space needed for playground equipment, a picnic shelter, and potentially a half basketball court. This space should be 80 feet by 120 feet or .25 acres at a minimum, with 130 feet by 240 feet or .75 acres being considered preferable.
- The Neighborhood, in coordination with the City Planning Office and the partners of the Housing Resource Center within Pettigrew Heights and located at the Bowden Youth Center, will work on the establishment of a neighborhood fair to be held one Saturday per month in conjunction with the Housing Resource Center and including a farmer's market component.
Expand the community garden concept to include urban agriculture, green community practices and development of a neighborhood garden club.
- The Neighborhood, in coordination with the City Planning Office, the Sioux Falls Seminary, and the Sioux Falls School District will work to implement and expand upon the Urban Agricultural project to be housed at the Lowell Elementary campus.
- The Neighborhood will coordinate with the Sioux Falls Seminary to coordinate the expansion of urban agricultural programs throughout Pettigrew Heights and upon the permission of neighborhood property owners.

Transportation

Promote neighborhood accessibility
- The City of Sioux Falls will evaluate sidewalk conditions and repair as needed;
- The City Planning Office will continue to explore bike path opportunities for the Pettigrew Heights neighborhood.
- The City Planning Office will work on the development of a safe neighborhood bicycle / pedestrian route connector to the City's existing greenway system.
- The City Planning Office in coordination with the Neighborhood will work on the education of Pettigrew Heights in relation to the City's Public Transit System. The City Planning Office in coordination with the City's Leading Green Program will offer training to residents of Pettigrew Heights on the user-friendly nature of Public Transit.
- The City Planning Office in coordination with the Public Transit organization will evaluate the need for additional bus shelters and stops throughout the neighborhood.
- In an effort to increase neighborhood pedestrian safety, the City Planning Office will work with the City Engineering Division and the Neighborhood to identify traffic calming designs and devices for the intersections throughout Pettigrew Heights and along 10th Street and 11th Street.

Safety

The Neighborhood in coordination with the City of Sioux Falls will identify areas within the neighborhood in need of additional lighting.
The City of Sioux Falls will work to ensure that all public areas are sufficiently lit.
The Neighborhood in coordination with the City of Sioux Falls will work to retain clean lines of sight along streets, sidewalks, and alleys.
The Neighborhood will encourage safety in design through Crime Prevention through Environmental Design (CPTED) principles such as:
- Use semi-transparent security screening rather than opaque walls – where appropriate.
- Avoid blank, windowless walls that attract graffiti and do not permit residents or workers to observe the street.
- Use and maintain landscaping that will maintain visibility, such as short shrubs and pruned tress. No tree branches should be below head height.
- Use creative ornamental grilles as fencing or over ground-floor windows in appropriate locations.
- Provide clear directional signage.
- Encourage "eyes on the street" through the strategic placement of windows, balconies, and street level uses in new construction projects.
The City of Sioux Falls will continue to identify and track vacant structures within the neighborhood to ensure they are not being used as hiding places or for illegal activities.

Housing

The Neighborhood and City Planning Office will partner with organizations such as Sioux Empire Housing Partnership, the Sioux Falls Multi-Housing Association, and the South Dakota Housing and Development Authority to pursue the resources necessary to encourage the transfer of rental housing units, especially those that were built as owner-occupied housing, back into owner-occupied structures. A goal of decreasing the rental housing from 69% to 60% should be pursued for review in five years.
The City of Sioux Falls Planning Office should encourage and when necessary mandate that all housing units within the neighborhood be maintained in a decent, safe, and sanitary condition.
The City of Sioux Falls Planning Office will encourage new development in the neighborhood to consist of mixed-use design, increasing the neighborhood's accessibility to affordable housing and service based businesses.
The City of Sioux Falls Planning Office in coordination with the Sioux Falls Board of Historic Preservation will identify those structures that are historically significant and will encourage their restoration.
The Housing Resource Center will provide educational opportunities to the neighborhood that could improve rental relationships between multi-family property owners, landlords, managers, and renters.
The Neighborhood will encourage the expansion of the existing City of Sioux Falls Housing Rehab Program, administered by the Community Development Department.
The City of Sioux Falls Planning Office in coordination with the Neighborhood will continue heightened City code enforcement efforts within the neighborhood. The Neighborhood will continue to coordinate an annual clean-up event in the neighborhood, as part of the event, the Neighborhood will survey the neighborhood for code enforcement violations.
The City of Sioux Falls Planning Office in coordination with the Neighborhood will draft and recommend for approval to the Sioux Falls City Council a residential tax abatement program for Pettigrew Heights. This program will promote significant improvements to residential housing structures within the neighborhood.
The City of Sioux Falls Planning Office will draft and implement a Rental Rehab Loan program for the neighborhood. This program will promote improvements to existing rental units within the neighborhood.