Goals 5 through 8 focus on quality of life concerns like health, transportation, education, and recreation. Recommendations that coincide with development in relation to the Blues District or Grand Boulevard include creating a Southside Transit Center to connect all regional and local transit transfers, provide traffic congestion relief on 47^th St., King Dr. and Cottage Grove Ave., provide off street parking along 47^th St. to achieve this traffic congestion reduction, and design major gateways to highlight important intersections, (47^th St. and Cottage Grove Ave.) (Mid-South Planning Commission 1993, 106, 115, 116)

Within these goals the Mid-South Plan makes no recommendations for crime reduction, single mother education or computer training all important issues connected to the economic problems in the area.