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City of Spokane's
Neighborhood Business Centers

Contact Information:

Teri Stripes
509-625-6597 or 625-6983

 

 

 

Included on this Page

Safety Ambassador Program

Safe Neighborhoods

Connections: The Healthy Transportation Network

About Growth: Focus on Safe Neighborhoods

Designing with Safety in Mind: Creative Use of Space to Prevent Crime

Graffiti Hurts Resources

Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design and the Safe Neighborhoods East Central Grant Links

Spokane "who to call when..."

 

 

Safety Ambassador Program

The City of Spokane, Neighborhood Business Centers (NBC) is pleased to announce it has been awarded a $15,000 grant from the Inland Northwest Community Foundation. The funding will be used to research, develop and begin testing a pilot “Safety Ambassador" program for Spokane's neighborhood business districts in the East Spokane Business Association (ESBA) district on East Sprague.

The project and grant application are a continuation of the Safe Neighborhoods CTED grant work done in 2006. During and since the Safe Neighborhoods project the ESBA and NBC have been working to improve the district’s safety and perceived safety this new opportunity will allow us to explore and test the implementation of an ambassador program, similar to the downtown safety ambassadors at the neighborhood business center level. The City's NBC program will coordinate with Eastern Washington University's Criminal Justice program, Lonnie Schaible to implement this pilot program. Dr. Schaible was employed by the City of Spokane's Police Department, Planning Unit in 2006 and collaborated on the Safe Neighborhoods project and is familiar with the neighborhood business district and its needs.

Project Report - For some time the East Sprague neighborhood has suffered from significant vice and social problems; however, the neighborhood has recently mounted a concerted effort to address these issues.  The purpose of the grant awarded to the City of Spokane by the Inland Northwest Community Foundation was to support the East Sprague business neighborhood in its efforts to improve real and perceived safety by establishing an ambassador program.  Early on, it became apparent that there was little neighborhood business support for such an initiative necessitating the pursuit of sustainable and effective alternatives.  As such, the purpose of the present report is to provide an analysis of the neighborhood needs, document innovative resolutions which have emerged through the efforts of the grant, and to provide recommendations about how the neighborhood might move forward in their efforts to improve real and perceived safety within the area. Click on the image to the right to open the full report.

 

Safe Neighborhoods

NBC: recently wrapped up its work on the Safe Neighborhoods project in East Central. Safe Neighborhoods planning is a replicable planning process. To being the planning process please contact us, tstripes@spokanecity.org to get copies of all available resources.

Thank you everyone who has dedicated his or her valuable time to the Safe Neighborhoods Pilot Project. Everyone involved had specific expertise they lent to the project’s success, yet to complete this project on the 51/2 month timeline still required tremendous collaboration and work.

Resources available for Safe Neighborhoods Planning

East Spokane Business Association Clean-up Case Study

 

The Healthy Transportation Network: Linking Safety and Community Design


 

 

 

 

About Growth, Winter 06-07

A Quarterly Publication About Growth Management

Washington State Department of Community, Trade and Economic Development

Focus on Safe Neighborhoods

 

 

Experts Online - Designing with Safety in Mind: Creative Use of

Space to Prevent Crime Webcast Event from June 9th, 2006

 

LISC's Community Safety Initiative (CSI) hosted this first in a series of informative online sessions to help community planners, CDC representatives and property managers with their efforts to improve communities. This session examines the notion among crime analysts that space is one of the most important factors in determining if and how crimes occur.

Experts:
Art Hushen, Instructor, National Institute for Crime Prevention
Nancy Howard, Community Safety Initiative Coordinator, Rhode Island LISC

Downloads:
> Presentation Packet (PDF, 3.15 MB)
> Presentation Multimedia (ZIP, 8.5 MB)

Graffiti Hurts National Award Program. Keep America Beautiful Inc. and the Sherwin-Williams Company announce funds to help community leaders assess the graffiti problem, initiate graffiti prevention activities, and educate youth and adults about the impact of graffiti vandalism on neighborhoods. Eligible applicants include nonprofit organizations. Awards up to $1,000 are available. For further information, go to Graffiti Hurts.

 

  • Ten Things You Can Do To Prevent Graffiti:

  1. Get educated. Learn about graffiti, how it impacts your   community, and who is responsible for graffiti prevention and clean-up in your area.

  2. Report graffiti to the appropriate authorities.

  3. Organize a paint-out. Gather supplies and community volunteers to remove graffiti in your neighborhood.

  4. Plan a paint-brush mural to cover a wall continuously plagued with graffiti.

  5. Coordinate a graffiti awareness campaign at your school or in the community.

  6. Make a presentation on graffiti prevention to your school, class, or neighborhood group.

  7. Adopt a spot in your school or community and make sure it stays clean and free of graffiti.

  8. Plant trees or other greenery near a graffiti-plagued wall. This will help prevent access.

  9. Ask your community to install lighting in areas that are dark and often hit with graffiti.

  10. Contact a local Keep America Beautiful affiliate (www.kab.org) and volunteer to help keep your community clean.

 

Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design and the Safe Neighborhoods East Central Grant Links
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American Planning Association Security Policy Guide

Security Education Programs for CPTED

Seven Strategies for Creating the Planning Model of CPTED

Code Enforcement Information Site

Crime Prevention Series Publications

Designing Out Crime: Crime Prevention through Environmental Design

Enterprise Foundation - self-help information to increase neighborhood safety.

Oscar Newman’s Defensible Space

Spokane COPS Webste

Spokane Online City GIS Map

Spokane Online GIS Crime Map

Spokane Police Department CPTED Website

Wikipedia Broken Windows Theory Information

Wikipedia CPTED Information

Contact Information:

Teri Cameron, Project Coordinator, 625-6597

 

 For Staff Meeting Notes and Project Coordination click here.  Read the  Winter 2006 Newsletter.
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Spokane Comprehensive Plan Policies

SNEC Grant Application

Letter of Congratulations from Governor Gregoire

Letter to Governor Gregoire from Jerry Numbers

Emergency Reporting Phone Numbers

SNEC Winter 2006 Newsletter

Become a COPS Volunteer

CODE ENFORCEMENT COMPLAINT FORM

 

 

 Spokane "Who to call when. . . ?"  Citizen Problem Resolution Matrix
 Emergency, Police, Fire, Ambulance  - Call 911

Call 911 for suspected or criminal activity, suspicious persons, or any reason you
feel you need to talk with or see an officer

 

Concern

Contact Department/Agency

Contact Phone

Abandon Vehicle on Private Property

Code Enforcement

625-6083

Abandon Vehicle in the Right of Way (public street, etc)

Spokane PD Abandon Vehicles

625-4246

Air Pollution

SCAPCA

477-4727

Basketball Hoops

Engineering Services

625-6339

Birth Certificates/Death Records

Spokane County

324-1524

Block Party Permits

Building

625-6300

Block Watch Program

 

835-4573

Brownfields Questions

Economic Development

625-6282

Building Permits

Building

625-6300

Business Licenses

Treasurer

625-6070

Chase Gallery Questions - First Friday

Spokane Arts

625-6050

Community Assembly - Committees, meetings, etc

Neighborhood Services

625-6730

Construction materials or dirt in the Right of Way

Engineering Services

625-6339

Dangerous Dogs or Animals

Spokanimal

534-8133

Dead Animal in the Right of Way

Spokanimal

534-8133

Domestic Animals- Barking Dogs or Animals on the loose

Spokanimal

534-8133

Domestic Animals - Too many animals at a location

Code Enforcement

625-6083

Domestic Animals - Unlicensed Animal

Spokanimal

534-8133

Dumpster Rentals, City Only

Solid Waste

625-7955

Election Information (County)

Spokane County

477-2320

Excavations - Unauthorized Excavation

Building

625-6300

Fences - Across Property Lines

Building

625-6300

Fences - Height Concerns

Code Enforcement

625-6083

Fences - No Permit for Fence

Building

625-6300

Fences - Sight Triangle

Code Enforcement

625-6083

Fills - Unauthorized Fill

Building

625-6300

Fire Hydrant blocked by debris

Fire Dept

625-7022

Fire Hydrant blocked by vehicle

Streets

232-8802

Garbage - Excessive Garbage on Private Property

Code Enforcement

625-6083

Garbage - Garbage in the Right of Way

Code Enforcement

625-6083

Graffiti

Spokane Crime Reporting Center

532-9266

Gravel Roads - Maintenance and Grading

Streets

625-7733

Hazardous Materials Disposal

Spokane Hazardous Materials

625-7898

Health District - Regional

Spokane Regional Health District

324-1500

Heating Assistance - low income & seniors

Spokane Neighborhood Action Program

456-7111

History question (Spokane) - general info

Downtown Spokane Library

444-5300

Historic Register - How to list a property

Historic Preservation

625-6983

Historic Register - Properties Currently Listed

Historic Preservation

625-6983

Historic Register - What is it?

Historic Preservation

625-6983

Homeless Assistance Information

Human Services Dept

625-6130

Home Renovation Assistance - Techniques

Historic Preservation

625-6983

House or Structure - Dangerous or Vacant

Code Enforcement

625-6083

Housing Rehabilitation

Community Development

625-6325

Illegal Trash Dumping

Code Enforcement

625-6083

Junk Vehicles on Private Property

Code Enforcement

625-6083

Junk Vehicles in the Right of Way

Spokane PD Abandon Vehicles

625-4246

Landlord/Tenant - Legal Questions

Attorney General/Spokane

456-3121

Landlord/Tenant - Discrimination Concern

Northwest Fair Housing Hotline

325-2665

Leaf Pickup in Neighborhoods

Leaf Pickup Hotline

456-2666

Litter Control - City and County

Code Enforcement

625-6083

Marriage Licenses

Spokane County

477-2228

Neighborhood Council - Council Cleanup Program

Neighborhood Services

625-6730

Neighborhood Council - Council Membership

Neighborhood Services

625-6730

No Permit for Private Property Construction

Building

625-6300

No Permit for Right of Way Construction Activity

Engineering Services

625-6339

Noise Complaint - Machine or Mechanical Noise

Code Enforcement

625-6083

Noise Complaint - Residential or Human Generated

Spokane Police Dept.

625-4050

Obstructed Visibility at Intersections

Streets

232-8800

Parking - Blocking Driveway

Streets

232-8802

Parking Citations - City or Airport Ticket

Municipal Court

625-4400

Parking Enforcement

Streets

232-8802

Parking - Vehicles Parked in Front Yard