Priority One: Reduce the number of juvenile cases and commitments by developing
stronger partnerships and programs.
- Provide parenting classes for the parents of juveniles.
- Continue arbitration and pre-trial intervention programs and work to secure
more volunteers.
- Improve youth athletics programs and the involvement of juveniles in these
programs.
- Work on “restorative justice” programs such as a “victim impact program.”
Priority Two: Reduce the number of fatal collisions and persons killed in Spartanburg
County by improving roads and improving driving skills.
- Create a system to better track data for accidents and their locations.
- Encourage state, county and city government to learn from the data and make
changes accordingly.
- Develop better communication between state, county and city government officials.
- Improve the development standards to require impact fees to be paid by developers.
This would require traffic studies and require developers to pay for improvements
based on the studies.
- Explore the use of traffic calming devices.
- Provide greater education for younger and older drivers.
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