Everything in life follows the same developmental path. Simpler steps are taken before more complicated ones. It is the old crawl before you walk idea. This is true of all neighborhoods and in all community development. Simpler strategies precede more complicated strategies.
Cheap strategies precede more expensive strategies.
Policy-only strategies precede physical development strategies. Neighborhood development builds on strength toward weakness. Let's examine these ideas is detail. This will work best for you if you stop in each section and work a bit on thinking how the principle applies to your neighborhood. Before things were written, writing itself had to be invented.