IMMEDIATE
(1^st Year)

SHORT-RANGE
(2^nd through 4^th Year)

LONGER-RANGE
(5^th Year and Beyond)

PRIMARY
RESPONSIBLE
PARTY

POPULATION

• Urge continued participation in the Schuylkill County Visions process.

Ongoing

Council

• Intensify efforts to attract new business to locate in the Pottsville region.

Ongoing

Council

HOUSING AND NEIGHBORHOOD REVITALIZATION

• Emphasize Aone home on one lot@ zoning.

X

• Reinstitute a City-sponsored program to assist eligible first-time home buyers.

X

• Target a portion of recording fees revenues for housing rehabilitation.

X

Planning Commission

• Use CDBG funds for deconversion of homes back to single-family.

X

Council

• Abate real estate tax increases that result from increased assessments due to housing rehabilitation.

X

Council

• Use HOME funds to assist Habitat for Humanity.

X

Council

• Use housing rehab projects to help with job training.

X

Council

• Ask local banks to investigate Neighborhood Assistance Tax credits.

X

Council

• Encourage City residents to take advantage of the Economic Opportunity Cabinet.

Ongoing

Council

• Establish a vacant property review system.

X

Council

• Ask local banks to investigate reverse mortgages.

X

Council

• Cluster capital projects to heighten their impact on City neighborhoods.

Ongoing

Council

• Tighten zoning controls on commercial uses in residential areas.

X

• Continue the City=s stepped-up emphasis on code enforcement.

Ongoing

• Implement the recommended Future Land Use map with appropriate zoning changes.

X

Planning Commission

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

• Continue supporting customized job training, leadership programs and related efforts.

Ongoing

Council

• Enhance quality of life advantages through recreation, cultural and scholastic improvements.

X

Council

• Step-up efforts to nurture home-grown businesses.

X

Council

• Prepare more underutilized sites for new business investment.

X

• Work with the County and non-profits to establish more venture capital and revolving loan programs.

X

Council

• Examine alternatives to improve access to the Pottsville Business Park.

X

Planning Commission

CENTRAL BUSINESS DISTRICT REVITALIZATION

• Focus first on redevelopment of the Keystone Opportunity Zone sites.

X

• Create incentives for adapting downtown buildings for in-town residential use.

X

Planning Commission

• Extend streetscape improvements southward and westward from the downtown area already treated.

X

Council

• Beautify the City entrance along South Centre Street.

X

Council

• Amend sign ordinance to stress historic compatibility in the CBD.

X

Planning Commission

• Prepare a design guidelines brochure.

X

PADCO

• Showcase local artists in highly visible vacant storefronts.

X

PADCO

• Encourage demolition of suitable buildings for new buildings and parking.

X

Planning Commission

• Work with PADCO to continue refining the roles and responsibilities of the Main Street Manager/PADCO Executive Director.

X

Council

• Limit the addition of new management service responsibilities for PADCO.

Ongoing

PADCO

• Prepare a self-guided walking tour map of the downtown area.

X

PADCO

• Encourage downtown merchants to extend common hours.

X

PADCO

• Promote joint marketing and complimentary merchandising.

X

PADCO

• Encourage downtown businesses to extend lunch hours to 60 minutes.

X

PADCO

• Use more shopping bags, calendars, T-shirts, coffee mugs and related items to promote the City.

X

PADCO

• Develop a pamphlet with a map to list downtown retailers and service providers.

X

PADCO

• Steer downtown business recruitment towards specialty niche retailers and discount variety stores.

Ongoing

PADCO

• Investigate options for revising the City=s business privilege tax to facilitate new business investment.

X

Council

TRANSPORTATION

• Continue implementing the recommendations of the 1996 traffic study for Route 61.

Ongoing

Council

• Continue cooperating with the Schuylkill Transportation System and promoting public transportation.

Ongoing

Council

• Complete the traffic light upgrades identified in the 1998 Downtown Area Traffic Study.

X

• Develop a AStreet Maintenance Program@ for capital street improvements.

X

Planning Commission

• Determine the need for a traffic signal at Norwegian and Wolf streets.

X

Planning Commission

• Investigate making Second Street and Third Street one-way in opposite directions.

X

Planning Commission

• Add signage and provide merchants with more information on parking available downtown.

X

PADCO

• Monitor the safety of the recently permitted ASheetz Intersection@ at Market Street and the Gordon Nagle Trail.

Ongoing

Planning Commission

COMMUNITY FACILITIES

• Continue successful cooperation between the City and the Schuylkill County Municipal Authority.

Ongoing

Council

• Continue towards completion of the City=s Act 537 Sewage Facilities Plan.

X

Council

• Work with the Greater Pottsville Area Sewer Authority to correct problems identified in the Act 537 Sewage Facilities Plan.

Ongoing

Council

• Continue to upgrade appropriate recreation facilities in the City.

Ongoing

Council

• Work with Tamaqua, Schuylkill County and local non-profits to complete tourist activities being funded with PennDOT monies.

X

Council

• Apply for a 50/50 state matching grant to fund a master plan for Sharp Mountain.

X

Planning Commission

• Continue monitoring the progress of the regional police study and the Pottsville / Mechanicsburg police service agreement.

Ongoing

Council