Located in the Operations Division of the Police Department, the Office of Neighborhood Services coordinates the response of City departments to neighborhood issues. In addition, the office directs the Student Neighborhood Assistance Program (SNAP), enforces the Neighborhood Enhancement Ordinance and Noise Ordinance, is responsible for the Crime Prevention and Working to Improve Neighborhoods (WIN) public information and education programs -- including Good Neighbor Day and Neighborhood Cooperation Week, and serves on various city, college, and university committees.

Check out these two sites!

http://www.sloneighbors.com/

Cal Poly and the City of San Luis Obispo are partnering to sponsor a city-wide celebration that seeks to build community through neighborhood engagement.  We are looking for city residents to host a neighborhood get-together at their home on Friday September 28th from 6 to 8 p.m.  If you are interested in participating, go to www.sloneighbors.com or contact Ardith Tregenza at 781-7186. 

http://www.respectslobro.com/

Neighborhood Services Team

The Neighborhood Services Team is comprised of representatives from various city departments who meet periodically with representatives of Residents for Quality Neighborhoods in an effort to promote communication and improve service levels. The minutes of those meetings then become "Neighbor News" and are provided to interested parties, distributed to neighborhood groups and made available below for reference purposes.

Newsletter April 2003

Newsletter August 2003

Newsletter January 2004

Newsletter June 2004

Newsletter December 2006

Working to Improve Neighborhoods (WIN)
A major emphasis in the Office of Neighborhood Services is our public information and education component entitled WIN, or Working to Improve Neighborhoods. Originally part of the Community Development department’s code enforcement effort, the WIN program is now identified as part of a city-wide information, education, prevention and action effort to reduce blight conditions and improve property values. Components include radio, television, and a print campaign designed to educate persons about blight conditions and how they can reduce substandard housing conditions in their neighborhoods. In addition, a Neighborhood Services team of city officials and local neighborhood groups meet to discuss specific actions that both the government and private sector can use to improve quality of life issues in neighborhoods.

Celebrate Your Neighborhood
Checklist for Good Neighbors
Special Information for Landlords
 

Fight Blight!
The “Broken Window Theory” states that if a community allows blight conditions to go undeterred, crime increases, quality of life diminishes, and property values plummet. The City of San Luis Obispo maintains an aggressive multi-department effort in order to reduce blighted conditions. You can help by reporting problem properties to the proper department:

Building and Safety Division, Community Development Dept. 805. 781.7180  This unit handles, residential overcrowding, garages converted to living space, altered structures, building without permits, peeling paint, substandard housing, RV’s used as a residence, paving of front yards, overgrown lawns and yards (over 12" in height), home based business violations, use permits, construction noise, zoning and building codes.

California Tenant’s Handbook
SLO Solutions

Police Department, Operations Bureau 805.781.7317  Both Student Neighborhood Assistance Program (SNAP) and Field Service Technicians respond to debris in yard, stuffed couches and chairs on porches and roofs, abandoned vehicles, parking in the yard, garbage cans left out, parts of automobiles in front yards, abandoned appliances, etc.

Fire Department, Fire Prevention Bureau 805.781.7380  Contact the Weed Abatement Officer for dry weeds in yards and open fields.

Student Survival Guide
Renter’s Checklist for Safe Housing
Planning A Party
 

WIN Posters
Welcome to our Working to Improve Neighborhoods print campaign section. Simply select a topic of interest and click to reveal a poster with information on “How to be a Better Neighbor.” Feel free to use as flyers for your organization, newsletter pages, school projects, or topics for Neighborhood Watch meetings. You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader in order to view or download this material.

The Adobe Acrobat Reader plug-in, available free by clicking the icon at left, is required for online viewing and printing of these documents.

Step 1: Place hands here Step 2: Place over ear holes Step 3: This is not a lawn ornament Step 4: This is not a curbside rain gauge Step 5: R.E.S.P.E.C.T. Step 6: Place near shrub Step 7: Parking on here: bad Step 8: Save lives Step 9: If it’s broke, fix it Step 10: Cool in kitchen Step 11: There’s a reason they’re called roommates Step 12: Kill it before it multiplies Step 13: Remember: voices carry Step 14: Mend this Step 15: Soggy Step 16: Store on truck Step 17: Grass is always greener Step 18: It takes one of these... Step 19: Okay to park in driveway Step 20: Remember: you’re responsible Step 31: This is not a dog bowl Step 32: Less turn, more surf Step 33: Drive your clunker to the dump Step 34: Spring has sprung and gone Step 35: Dandelion Step 36: Drag across lawn Step 37: Commence quiet time Step 38: Send them home right after cake Step 39: Can it Step 40: M.Y.O.B. Step 41: Resident advisory Step 42: Remember: voices carry Back to the top