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introduction This process included data collection and Known for its diverse housing stock, mature analysis, issue identification and refinement, trees, attractive parks, and established goal and objective development, and infrastructure, U City is a community of strategy development. City staff gathered neighborhoods. The City of University City data from several sources, including the takes great pride in its residential 2000 Census, City ordinances and codes, communities and has a strong commitment surveys, a questionnaire, and St. Louis to neighborhood preservation. County records. It is with this goal in mind that the U City Study area residents were involved in each Department of Community Development step of the Planning Process. Through a has undertaken a series of neighborhood series of public meetings, residents studies. These studies are in-depth identified neighborhood assets, strengths planning efforts that identify unique and weaknesses, issues, goals and neighborhood issues and concerns. They objectives and strategies. A questionnaire constitute neighborhood visions and a list of administered to 700 households in the study actions and strategies to bring these goals also elicited participation from study area to fruition. residents. Over 75 completed and non- completed questionnaires were returned, The Northwest Neighborhood Plan (Plan) is analyzed and incorporated into the Plan. the third such neighborhood analysis. It is Appendix A contains the questionnaire the result of cooperative efforts of results. neighborhood residents, business owners and City staff and is designed to achieve Residents, committed to community several objectives including: betterment, came away from the process To provide a forum for residents to with a collaborative view of the issues and identify issues and solutions; concerns facing their neighborhood and with To educate the City about the concerns a vision of desired future conditions. What of the neighborhood; follows in this document is a strategy to To identify major opportunities and bring the vision to reality -- a list of actions projects. and projects that the City and its partners will undertake. The Plan is an official public document adopted as an amendment to the Comprehensive Plan by City Council. It will be used as a policy guide and for project development and implementation. Planning Process The development the Plan followed a planning process that was carried out by the Department of Community Development, under the guidance of study area residents.