2010/05/26 Council Agenda Packet

Everett Parks and Recreation Parks • Signage, maps and descriptive text promotes a greater sense of safety. Visitors feel greater control over their environment when they know where they are and how to get to where they want to go. • Provide access to assistance in the form of telephones and parks staff when appropriate to provide a greater sense of well-being and safety. • Activity and recreational programming can encourage positive use, increase surveillance, limit domination by any one user group and reduce the possibility of inappropriate behavior. Where people use parks in a positive way and in substantial numbers, all people feel more secure. • Citizen involvement fosters a sense of ownership and pride and builds a constituency of users with an interest in keeping parks safe. Inappropriate activities need to be discouraged because they result in a cycle of withdrawal from a park and hence a reduction in positive use. • Review development proposals with the police and fire departments to encourage input on safety issues and access for emergencies. • Provide staff training in CPTED. "CPTED is the proper design and effective use of the built environment which may lead to a reduction in the fear and incidence of crime, and an improvement of the quality of life. National Crime Prevention Institute 1. Natural Surveillance - A design concept directed primarily at keeping intruders easily observable. Promoted by features that maximize visibility of people, parking areas and building entrances: doors and windows that look out on to streets and parking areas; pedestrian -friendly sidewalks and streets; front porches; adequate nighttime lighting. 2. Territorial Reinforcement - Physical design can create or extend a sphere of influence. Users then develop a sense of territorial control while potential offenders, perceiving this control, are discouraged. Promoted by features that define property lines and distinguish private spaces from public spaces using landscape plantings, pavement designs, gateway treatments, and "CPTED" fences. 3. Natural Access Control - A design concept directed primarily at decreasing crime opportunity by denying access to crime targets and creating in offenders a perception of risk. Gained by designing streets, sidewalks, building entrances and neighborhood gateways to clearly indicate public routes and discouraging access to private areas with structural elements. 4. Target Hardening - Accomplished by features that prohibit entry or access: fencing, window locks, dead bolts for doors, interior door hinges The Four Strategies of CPTED (for more information go to Graffiti Management www.thecptedpage.wsu.edu) Graffiti is a multifaceted problem requiring a range of actions to reduce the opportunities to tag and to respond and remove the graffiti in the field. 42 Everett Parks and Recreation 11