Neighborhood safety and livability (S)
Police
S1. Provide crime and safety information for community meetings and newsletters on a regular basis. This includes contact information for forwarding complaints about neighborhood safety issues, suggestions for improving personal and property safety, and instructions are posting house numbers to aid in quick emergency response time.
S2. Work with District 4 to provide information about crime prevention techniques and neighborhood watch programs, for dissemination to block clubs and other community groups.
S3. Provide owners of multiple family rental properties with information about safety issues and techniques for property maintenance and dealing with problem tenants.
S4. Continue the police storefront in the community and to provide lead officers for the Dayton's Bluff community.
Neighborhood livability
S5. District 4 will provide Public Works and Parks with information about neighborhood streets and other public areas where mid-block street lights and trimming of trees would aid pedestrians.
S6. Work with District 4 to provide information that the district council can disseminate to residents about the timely removal of snow on sidewalks, mowing of grass and trash collection.
S7. Study alternatives for trash collection; the objectives are to increase the lifespan of streets and alleys and to reduce noise.
S8. Encourage utility companies to bury lines in conjunction with development, when feasible.
S9. District 4 will provide the City with information about consistent violations of the noise regulations, as outlined in Section 293.02 of the Municipal Code, so that appropriate remedies can be determined.
S10. Continue Saint Paul's representation on the Metropolitan Airports Commission's Downtown Airport Advisory Committee and, in connection with that representation, collaborate with District 4 on issues related to Holman Field.
Transportation, traffic, and parking (T)
Physical improvements
T1. Collaborate with District 4 to develop a plan for traditional neighborhood streetscape for arterials that includes, but is not limited to, sidewalks, lantern lighting, and boulevard trees. Public Works will work with District 4 to identify the arterials. Utilize single lantern lighting, consistent with existing City lighting policy, to the greatest extent possible; install twin lantern lighting along commercial streets (i.e., on East 7th Street east of Minnehaha Avenue) and major collectors in residential neighborhoods, including bridges connecting segments of commercial streets and major collectors, replacing bent straw lighting, in collaboration with the district council and affected property owners. Specific bridges are Earl Street over Interstate 94, East 7th Street between Kittson Street and Payne Avenue, and Kellogg Boulevard westerly of its intersection with East 3rd Street. Continue program of installing traditional streetscape improvements on local and collector streets in connection with the RSVP and collector street reconstruction programs.
T2. Provide improvements to facilitate left turns on East 7th Street at such intersections as Mara, Arcade, and Minnehaha to improve traffic flow.
T3. Mark crosswalks and bike lanes on arterials clearly to provide safe passageways for pedestrians and cyclists.
Dayton’s Bluff (District 4) District Plan Summary December 2009