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Item 2016 Funding and Technical Assistance Handbook for Delaware Local Governments(2016-02) Scoglietti, Alexa; Eisenhart, Scott; Singh, Saran; Tierney, Gemma; Wollaston, Martin; Scott, MarciaThe Institute for Public Administration (IPA) at the School of Public Policy & Administration at the University of Delaware is pleased to provide an updated 2016 Funding and Technical Assistance Handbook for Delaware Local Governments. The handbook is another resource developed by IPA for Delaware local governments that are seeking assistance in the form of grants, loans, technical assistance, training, and advisory services. The 2016 edition of the handbook is being made available online in portable document format (PDF). The handbook will be updated bi-annually and maintained as a digital document. Because many financial and technical assistance programs are subject to change based on federal or state legislation, appropriations, or budget allocation decisions, potential applicants are advised to call the respective contact person listed for each assistance program. The handbook is organized into four sections. The first section lists federal programs that have traditionally provided technical assistance or funding opportunities to Delaware local governments. For more comprehensive information on federal funding opportunities, please refer to the online Catalog for Federal Domestic Assistance www.cfda.gov and www.grants.gov. The second section contains information on state programs that provide funding or technical assistance. The third section provides information on public service programs through the University of Delaware that provide local government assistance. The final section highlights funding opportunities from organizations that cannot be categorized in the previous sections, such as regional and local nonprofit organizations. IPA would like to acknowledge and thank all the agency contacts who graciously provided updated program information for the 2016 edition, particularly the Office of State Planning and Coordination. The 2016 Funding and Technical Assistance Handbook for Delaware Local Governments was prepared by a team of IPA staff and student “Public Administration Fellows.” Alexa Scoglietti coordinated the project along with Public Administration Fellows Scott Eisenhart, Saran Singh, and Gemma Tierney. IPA staff involved with this handbook included Policy Scientists Martin Wollaston and Marcia Scott. Finally, thanks also goes to IPA Director Jerome Lewis who allocated staffing resources for creating and updating the handbook, Policy Scientist Lisa Moreland and Associate Policy Scientist William DeCoursey for editing, and Policy Specialist II Sarah Pragg for her assistance in designing the handbook.Item Delaware Transportation Lighting Inventory & Assessment(2016-02) Wollaston, Martin; Horgan, Evan; Scoglietti, Alexa; Seymour, Nicole; Tierney, GemmaIn December 2011, the Institute for Public Administration completed a project that examined pedestrian-lighting policies in unincorporated areas in Delaware. The purpose of the 2011 study was to better understand who shared in the responsibilities for providing pedestrian lighting in these areas. This current project builds on the 2011 pedestrian-lighting research by conducting a literature review to provide an update of new lighting technologies and trends, including fixture designs, lighting options, and operational costs. The most important part of this work, however, focuses on piloting a low-cost method to assess lighting in a few selected communities in Delaware. While working on another community planning project, IPA learned that many municipalities do not have a readily available inventory of the lighting in their towns. Municipalities that provide electric service also provide the lighting in their towns and maintain lighting inventories. Most towns in Delaware, however, do not provide electric service, and lighting in those towns is provided by a private utility. Towns that do not have data or maps showing the locations of lighting fixtures have little information on how well the sidewalks and pathways are visible after dark. For this research, IPA proposed using a relatively inexpensive mobile phone application to develop lighting inventories for towns. The development of an inventory of lighting fixtures to show the location of installed lights is the first step to addressing the lighting needs of a town. IPA will use this information to develop maps of selected areas to demonstrate potential products.Item Overview of Medicaid in Delaware- July 2016(Center for Community Research & Service, 2016) Peuquet, Steven; McDuffie, MaryJoan; Knight, Erin; Gifford, Katie; Chizeck, Seth; Tierney, GemmaItem Overview of Poverty in Delaware- October 2015(Center for Community Research & Service, 2015) Peuquet, Steven; McDuffie, MaryJoan; Merriman-Nai, Sharon; Barlow, Janice; Tierney, Gemma; Chizeck, SethItem Town of Kenton 2016 Comprehensive Plan(2017-01) Wollaston, Martin; Raab, Linda; DeCoursey, William J.; Jones, Kirsten; Tierney, Gemma; Seymour, Nicole; Horgan, EvanThis comprehensive development plan is intended to serve as a document for the future development of the Town of Kenton. Adopted by the Town Council, it is recognized as the guide for future planning efforts of the community and its representatives. Implementation of the goals and objectives of this plan will be developed in a land-use (zoning and subdivision) code and other municipal ordinances following the completion of this plan. This plan is a flexible document, and the updating or revision of planning goals and objectives is essential to keeping the planning program responsive to the changing needs of the community.Item Where houses replace warehouses: managing residential and mixed use redevelopment of deindustrialized urban areas(University of Delaware, 2017) Tierney, GemmaAs many American cities have experienced significant population growth since the 1980s, their industrial areas often become the target of redevelopment pressure to meet rising demand for urban housing. This pressure comes from developers seeking to convert properties to higher rent land uses such as residential and mixed use, and municipal governments seeking to put vacant or underused properties into more active uses. Philadelphia’s West Washington Avenue is a legacy industrial area that has begun to experience this pressure over the last five years. In other former urban industrial areas that have undergone this pressure, municipal governments managed this process in many different ways, including regulating private developers, forming public-private partnerships, and initiating urban design programs. These management strategies have served to advance a variety of stakeholder land use planning goals. ☐ The built fabric of these legacy industrial areas offers a distinctive urban landscape grounded in its heritage as a place of industrial enterprise and labor. While many of these areas began as center for heavy industrial land uses such as foundries or coal yards, their contemporary built fabric conveys layers of industrial development. As city planning departments seek to manage the reinvestment and redevelopment activity that has appeared in these legacy industrial areas, the outcomes of their management strategies transform the area’s layout, functions, users and, in turn, its distinct landscape. ☐ This thesis argues that municipalities’ tactics for managing residential redevelopment in their legacy industrial areas will advance particular planning goals and bolster particular land uses, consequently altering the area’s built environment and physical heritage through selective restoration and new construction. Cities manage residential and mixed use redevelopment pressure on their legacy industrial areas at varying levels of permissibility and to diverse, sometimes disparate, economic, social and political ends. However, these management strategies share the fact that they alter the character of the area’s streets, sidewalks, and buildings. West Washington Avenue is analyzed to formulate recommendations for management tactics that consider not only stakeholder goals but also the physical and spatial impacts on a distinct urban landscape.