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<br />are concrete plonts and auto repair shops directly adiacent to resl- <br />dences. And there are commerciol uses of all kinds abutting and <br />intermixed with rllsidentiol areaS. londusepalterllsoflhisl'lOture <br />aregenerollyconsidered;nappropriatebyplannersandprojecta <br />very negotive image of on area. <br /> <br />1II0IWSnNG COlNlltnVnOlNlS <br /> <br />Finally, there 1so series af ind;vidually mina; items that, by their <br />proliferotion become significont negative environmenlal - imagery <br />influences. Such things os overhead pawerlines, broken and non- <br />existontsidewalk5, unpaved slreets and billboards lend ta lower <br />thegenerol environmentol character of on area. These problems are <br />present to a signiflcant degree in the Shook's Run study area and <br />have been loooted and mopped far reference in the planning of the <br />area. <br /> <br />The physical condition afresidential unils in any given areo is 0 crltlc al <br />factor in evoluoting the strength of a neighborhaod and predicting ih <br />future potential. IfasignificontpercentogeoFthehovs;ngunihhove <br />deteriorated beyond the point where rehabilitationbfeasible, the neigh- <br />bomaoo hal very probably reached the stogewhere considerable clearance <br />ond redevelopment will be neces",ry, At this stage, particularly if <br />Urbon Renew...1 enters the picture, the charocterand land use pattern, of <br />the neighborhood arll open too wide spectrum of alternative solutions. <br /> <br />CantrorHy, if rfllalively minor deterioration is evidenl and the bosic fabric <br />of the neighborhood is still apparent, the chorocter of Ihe neighborhood <br />is generally not open tocharlge. This limihthe oltemativesbut provides <br />excenentopportuniliesforstrengtheningtheneighbomoodatarelalively <br />low Cosl and rehabilitating/maintaining hovsing at the lawer end of the <br />price $pectrum, before critico! de"'riarotion occurs. <br /> <br />Prec;,e evaulotlon of housing COl'lditianswQlJld of course r"'luireon-site <br />inspedion of each and every unit by quoliFied experts. Howev"'r, close <br />opproximationscan be mooe much more rapidly and cheaply thcrt provide <br />sufficient dola forpreliminory conclusions. 1970 Census dola, EI Paso <br />County ",,,,,,"or's recards and the City's Community Renewal Progrom <br />(CRP}stvdies hove 011 been usod to assemble the fallowing indkatot$of <br />hO<.l,ing cond;tions In the Shook's Run stvdy area: <br /> <br />AgeofStruchJres: While certainly not 0 direct correlation, the <br />:!ge afa stl"JchJre hossomes;gnific""tbea'ingon progt"",;ve <br />d",ter1amllon. For Ihot reoson it Is notable that 210 of the 257 <br />census blocks in thestvdy oreo hove onoveroge dote of con- <br />,trvctianbetween 1910 and 19190nd Ihe average dote of COn- <br />,trvction fo' every black in the oreofolls prior to 1940 (see <br />Tabl" 0 below). <br /> <br />TABLE D <br /> <br />MEAN YEAR OF RESIDENiiAL CONSii\iJCiiCN BY BLOCK <br /> <br />MeonYlJor <br />1910-1919 <br />1920-1929 <br />1930-1939 <br /> <br />No. ofBlockl <br />210 <br />37 <br />10 <br />ill <br /> <br />Percentof8:ocks <br />82% <br />14% <br />4% <br />100% <br /> <br />-26- <br /> <br />..27- <br />