SOME HCCA ISSUES

• Development and Land Use

We continue to take an active role in trying to encourage the kinds of development that enhance residential neighborhoods. Lack of development in some areas that are peppered with run-down strip malls, drug dealers, and storage lockers, has a negative impact on residents. Likewise, overly upscale and overbearing high-rise development in other parts of the city threatens to destabilize existing residential neighborhoods and reduce public access to the beach.

• Code Enforcement

We are working with city staff to identify key problem areas in the city's code enforcement process and to push for needed reforms such as better coordination among city departments, prevention of illegal conversions, ordinance updates, and innovative ways to achieve code compliance.

• Protection of Residential Neighborhoods

We oppose commercial intrusion in residential neighborhoods. Through the years, because of this type of encroachment, HCCA has opposed a proposed barbershop in Liberia, a medical office building in Hollywood Hills, a carwash in the Lakes, restaurants on residential streets on the beach, and a commercial vehicle in Lawn Acres.

• Foreclosures

HCCA member associations are greatly concerned about the high rate of home foreclosures throughout the city. We have held six seminars to inform homeowners threatened with foreclosure about their rights and how best to exercise them.

• City Finances

We are increasingly concerned about the inadequate allocation of public dollars for capital improvements to correct such problems as the lack of lighting in residential neighborhoods, flooding, and the ongoing deterioration of streets, alleys, and sidewalks in many parts of the city.