Martinez on neighborhoods
Porterville has a home owner assistance program. This program assists home owners in rejuvenating their homes. In the 07-08 budget years we helped 14 families rejuvenate their home. The advertising of this program is on going and we feel that as more people know about this we will be able to make a larger impact in rejuvenating neighborhoods. The City is also putting in curb and sidewalks through a grant in many of the neighborhoods which have partial side walks or no side walks. Also many of the county islands which had been neglected by the County the city has begun to annex them and then put them on our program list for street repair.
I support both large and smaller scale development. We have many areas with in our city which would accommodate smaller scale development it is important that we work with developers to assure we do not have checker board growth. I also recognize the need for large areas to be planned and built to accommodate for the swelling population growth that is occurring with in our community so assuring that we have the amenities for this population is also important