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4. Maintain and upgrade land uses and environmental quality. <br />Explanation: In order to preserve the vitality and stability of residential <br />neighborhoods as well as the entire community, the City should take <br />immediate steps to encourage and promote rehabilitation or redevelop- <br />ment of all substandard housing. Furthermore, H order to detect <br />deterioration in its earliest stages and prevent potential blight, the <br />City should initiate systematic building inspection and develop and <br />enforce housing maintenance codes. Similar procedures should also <br />be developed for services, commercial, and industrial structures. <br />Relative to overall environmental quality, municipal ordinances should <br />be developed to eliminate visual pollution resulting from business and <br />commercial signs and franchise architecture. <br />5. <br />4 7. <br />Reinforce and maintain the character of individual neighborhoods. <br />Explanation: Each neighborhood within the community should be protected <br />from encroachment by undesirable uses and buffered from other types of <br />uses. Physical barriers which serve to separate and segregate neighborhoods <br />from other sections of the community should be dealt with in such a way <br />so as to reduce their impact on the neighborhood. <br />Preserve and protect property values. <br />Explanation: It is the individual through his development investment <br />which creates a community. The City must work to protect this investment <br />by ensuring a compatible- land use relationship and preventing: encroach- <br />ments which create a negative, blighting influence. Furthermore, the City <br />must work for the maintenance and improvement of existing uses and <br />activities to prevent deterioration which impacts surrounding development. <br />Provide for and service the full and total needs of the community relative <br />to its function within the context of the larger metropolitan community. <br />Explanation: As neighborhoods are subunits within the community of <br />Little Canada, Little Canada itself is a subunit of the metropolitan <br />or regional community. Within the context of' the regional area, <br />Little Canada's basic function is the provision of housing. Recognizing <br />this function, the City should work towards relating its activities, <br />needs and requirements to those of the metropolitan area as a whole. <br />1s <br />