By utilizing results from the SWOT exercise, PARK-it! exercise, surveys, and discussions with stakeholders, the planning team prepared descriptions of the following nine Neighborhood Goals which were presented to and discussed at the November 1999 public neighborhood meeting. These Neighborhood Goals are central to the Community Development Plan which outlines actions that residents and stakeholders, in conjunction with the City and the Hilltop Neighborhood Association, can take to improve the neighborhood.

1. Preserve community policing.
2. Preserve community garden, park, historic resources, and church.
3. Add programs for youths.
4. Add tenant screening.
5. Add more park and street lights.
6. Remove barriers to home buying.
7. Remove abandoned houses.
8. Keep out drugs.
9. Keep out slum landlords.

The goals and the recommended actions for achieving each goal are described in greater detail on the next page. Many of the recommended actions listed were identified at the September 1999 neighborhood meeting. At that meeting, after the group had voted on each of the items to preserve, remove, add and keep out, the discussion focused on how the top-scoring "preserve" items could be maintained, the top-scoring "remove" items eliminated, and so on.