1968 Comprehensive Plan #15

...a beautiful school site nestled in between residential neighborhoods of good housing.  The development of Walker has been strongly influenced by its natural setting with its high bluffs and hills and this is particularly true of the school site.  Walker's modern hospital can be seen in the background.  In the consultant's survey of 1967, 81.5% of all structures in Walker were rated good with 7.1% or 32 structures considered as dilapidated or beyond repair.  Many of these, of course, are eyesores and in 1968 several of the listed abandoned houses were condemned by the village and were demolished.  These sites are now available for new housing and other developments thereby eliminating some eyesores that were unsafe or unsightly.