Community Workshop
Workshop Overview
On January 12, 2023, the City of Compton hosted a General Plan workshop to solicit community input on the guiding principles, housing policies, focus areas, and community improvements. Over 30 participants came to the workshop and provided input on the stations.
The workshop consisted of four stations:
- Station 1: What is a General Plan?
- Station 2: Housing Element Overview
- Station 3: Corridor Growth
- Station 4: Community Amenities
Each station had an informative or interactive board(s) with relevant information and a section to provide comments or feedback. Staff members at each station were available to answer public questions.
Workshop Materials
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Workshop Summary
Station 1:
What I Love About Compton and Top Three Priorities
Comments on Draft Guiding Principles
What I love About Compton and Top Three Priorities
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What I love about Compton Public Comments:
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Top Three Priorities |
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Priority 1 Public Comments:
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Priority 2 Public Comments:
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Priority 3 Public Comments:
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Comments on Draft Guiding Principles
What is missing? Tell us how we can improve these preliminary Draft Guiding Principles. Place your comment on the Post-it Note and add it to this board.
Street and Infrastructure Systems
A complete street system paved and improved for all mobility types and that includes accessible, safe sidewalks, street trees, signs, and pedestrian crosswalks. Reliable water and sewer infrastructure systems sized and maintained to meet current and future demands and to minimize risks to public health and safety. A comprehensive network of City facilities well maintained to meet community needs.
Public Comments:
- Building more housing
- Fast, efficient, and quality repair of streets, lights, and traffic signs
- On-going street repairs
- Fix roads
- Require local hire with apprenticeship, so our community can access decent paying jobs and life-long skills
Safe and Clean Neighborhoods
Safe, clean neighborhoods are enhanced by street lighting improvements that create greater visibility in residential areas, removal of longstanding blighted structures, elimination of illegal dumping citywide, revitalized vacant lots, and other improvements shown to contribute to public safety and cleanliness.
Public Comments:
- Schools
- Loud parties should end by 12 am or be fined
- Affordable housing
- Regulate illegal parking in turn lanes overnight
- More effort to prevent and prosecute illegal street takeovers and racing
- Sheriff patrol neighborhoods regularly
- Strict code enforcement
- More police presence
- Require parking permits for residential neighborhoods
Commerce and Entertainment
Vibrant commercial districts and mixed-use corridors that provide many opportunities for entrepreneurs and flexibility for established local businesses to offer diverse goods and services, leisure activities, and places to dine and entertain.
Public Comments:
- Equity: fairness in who gets business permits – Black business owners
- Charge fees or require business licenses for non-Compton resident street vendors (special Compton business license)
- Mixed-use commercial spaces: provide low-income housing options as a part
Parks and Recreation
Well-designed, well-maintained, and safe parks, recreational facilities, and community centers that meet diverse and evolving community needs. Recreational and community service programs that offer educational classes and culturally relevant events targeting Compton’s youth, families, and seniors.
Public Comments:
- Preservation of bio-diversity
- Create programs that celebrate Black contributions and culture in Compton
- Shade: more trees in parks
- Utilize Compton Camp Fire site
- Adequate staffing and security
- Rain capture/water conservation
- Black resource centers
Equity and Environmental Justice
Improved air quality, elimination of industrial noise and pollution, and noxious truck emissions that impact residential neighborhoods. A city where all residents have easy access to community facilities, healthy food choices, parks and facilities, and safety and sanitary homes. A community in which everyone can readily engage in civic life and public decision-making processes in languages in which they have most comfort.
Public Comments:
- Reparations for Compton residents – redlining
- Ensure new low-income housing options are not located near pollution or polluted lands
- Clean pollution
City Communication
Modern and effective forms of communication between City leaders and residents and the business community that allow for trust and transparency, while recognizing cultural characteristics, different languages, and technological inequalities.
Public Comments:
- Streamline the website to include portals to school districts and college district
- Websites for easier access to information
- Make it easier to contact City representatives (regular office hours and town hall meetings)
- Easy access to City info and events (bi-lingual)
Equity and Opportunity
Equal access for all residents to affordable housing, mental health and public health services, employment opportunities, and other social services, particularly for low-income households and other vulnerable residents. Workforce development and educational programs for local residents to provide them with higher income earning potential.
Public Comments:
- Clean encampments
- Help homeless
- Repurpose vacant buildings to be used as housing where wraparound services are provided for displaced residents
- Internship and externship programs for Compton residents
- Curtail and/or prevent gentrification – pushing out Black resident homeowners and business owners.
- Help homeless people to get off the streets
- Build more housing
Governance
Provide quality municipal services, facilities management, and maintenance in a safe, reliable, and efficient manner. These services are to be funded by sustainable and stable City revenues supported by competent financial management and highly capable staff and City leadership.
Public Comments:
- Financial accountability
- Implicit and ongoing bias training for all City officials and workers
- Proactive City leadership that is tangible and welcomes citizens’ concerns and suggestions
- Proper financial management oversight
- Local hires for all new businesses and development projects
- Establish a plan with neighboring cities to control homeless, and street takeovers; invest in cameras throughout the City