All Complete Communities Recommendations
Each card below represents a recommendation, which would direct you to that recommendation’s sub-page to provide you greater details. Within each card, the icons represent the recommendation’s connections towards the key issues and planning topic areas. The more icons and supporting policy buckets there are, the more transformative a recommendation. Cards with purple-colored background are identified as transformative recommendations. Recommendations with fewer elements are more focused and are still important in helping the County to move forward.
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Inclusive Economies
Complete Communities
Sustainable Infrastructure
Responsible Growth
Leading the Region
Population Stagnation
Jobs-Skills Mismatch
Housing Diversity & Affordability
Infrastructure Cost-burden
Social & Environmental Resilience
Economic Development
Housing
Land Use & Development
Open Space & Environment
Transportation & Infrastructure
Recommendation CC.33
Increase the walkability and connectivity of neighborhoods to civic amenities, schools, parks, greenways, and neighborhood employment and commercial areas.
Recommendation CC.34
Increase the number of neighborhoods that have access to essential amenities, jobs, goods, services and parks within a comfortable and safe walk, bike, or transit trip.
Recommendation CC.35
Identify and address the specific needs of the disadvantaged legacy communities through specific area planning efforts.
Recommendation CC.36
Create a Healthy Neighborhoods Program designed to help improve the personal health, safety, and living conditions of individuals and families to reduce the burden of housing related illness and injury.
Recommendation CC.37
Support arts and culture programs and institutions. Facilitate a robust environment including hubs for community, educational, and visitor activity.
Recommendation CC.38
Continue the historic preservation of key landmarks and necessary research to ensure the complex and diverse histories are recorded and made visible
Recommendation CC.39
Coordinate the provision and location of specialized regional types of cultural facilities in this area with facilities throughout the county. An ongoing effort should be made to promote coordinated and cooperative use of specialized region-serving cultural facilities wherever they may be located.
Recommendation CC.40
Develop and historic and cultural trail system within St. Louis County that narrates the multiple histories of the community.
Recommendation CC.41
Strengthen partnerships with higher education institutes as well as pre-schools, primary, and secondary schools to foster lifelong education through the arts.
Recommendation CC.42
Activate existing main streets and downtowns with a diverse array of arts, culture and educational facilities and programs. Foster both resident identity and visitor interest, as well as community participation and support.
Recommendation CC.43
Provide a network of public spaces and healthy tree canopy in downtowns and along main streets. Activate streets, parks, and plazas with outdoor programming and ground floor businesses to engage pedestrians.
Recommendation CC.44
Provide an accessible system of state, County, and municipal park and recreation amenities, including greenways. Support the necessary programs to satisfy the full-range of interest groups within the County, in line with National Park and Recreation Standards.
Recommendation CC.45
Expand sidewalk installations and upgrades in areas identified as high-priority for pedestrian connectivity, emphasizing low-income neighborhoods with existing sidewalk gaps.
Recommendation CC.46
Enhance the existing Complete Streets Ordinance by focusing on multimodal networks that integrates diverse street types, prioritizing safety, equity and connectivity.
Recommendation CC.47
Conduct annual assessments of the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) and HOME Fund programs to better the impact and interventions needed to increase housing options.
Recommendation CC.48
Implement traffic-calming measures such as speed tables, curb extensions, mid-block crossings, and narrower lanes in residential areas, with a focus on areas that lack sidewalks or have high pedestrian activity.
Recommendation CC.49
Operationalize the inclusion of fiscal impact analyses and infrastructure requirements reporting in the County's development review process.
Recommendation CC.50
Facilitate a comprehensive distribution of community gardens, farmers markets, Food Co-Ops and CSA outlets in neighborhoods.
Recommendation CC.51
Support and Expand School and Community Center gardening initiatives, healthy food and nutrition education programs, and wellness programs to provide a comprehensive and integrated program of support
Recommendation CC.52
Facilitate the provision of a corner store or grocery store with fresh and healthy food options within neighborhoods, accessible by walking, biking, or transit.
Recommendation CC.53
Develop a Healthy Food Retail Program through local tax incentives and New Markets Tax Credit (NMTC) for grocery stores and convenience store retailers that open or expand into food deserts.
Recommendation CC.54
Strengthen the various healthy food support programs focused within food deserts that provide technical assistance and financial incentives to existing store owners, encouraging them to stock and promote nutritious food options.
Recommendation CC.55
Expand the St. Louis MetroMarket, the Food Pantry and the Food as Medicine programs supported by St. Louis County to support or fund mobile farmers' markets and food trucks that bring fresh produce and healthy food options directly to underserved communities and in particular, seniors and children over summer holidays.
Recommendation CC.56
Allocate Community Development grants and low-interest loans to encourage community-driven initiatives, such as community gardens, community supported agriculture (CSA), urban farms, local corner stores, convenience stores, small markets or cooperative grocery stores for local residents to take an active role in addressing food access issues.
Recommendation CC.57
Invest in improved public transportation options to enhance residents' access to grocery stores outside their neighborhoods.
Recommendation CC.58
Create a publicly and privately funded region-wide Lead-Free Communities Partnership that provides lead-based paint risk assessments and abatement while providing services for children residing in housing units in need of lead abatement.