IV.  SOCIAL VALUES

1. Assumptions

   Not enough emphasis can be placed upon social values. Although all other goals can be related in some ways to social values, some goals stand out as being significant as pertains to the Laurel Hill Neighborhood. The expressions of social values find themselves in words like identity, preservation , and livability. The neighborhood does have identity, physical as well as a community, and it wishes to preserve that identity. Quite obviously, any attempt at creating a more livable atmosphere, when successful, tends to enhance and foster a higher order of society.

2. Neighborhood Goals

   1. To preserve a diversity of population.

   2. To preserve the freedom to live outside one's house and to resist those environmental pressures that drive people into their houses as refuges.

   3. To preserve and maintain the established and distinctive character of the neighborhood. While the area is now properly defined as semi-rurall future development will effect some change in this aspect; nevertheless, it is a goal to preserve in every way possible the semi-rural atmosphere. This can be accomplished best by maintaining as many open spaces as possible.

   4. To encourage continuance of Laurel Hill Elementary School when enrollments justify reopening the facility. Where feasible, the school district should continue to make a portion or portions of the school site (especially the playground facilities) available for community activities and neighborhood use so as to fill the void caused by the closure of the school.