Now, “if the local efforts start to change a community to make it more desirable, that could attract developers and that could create a negative situation of gentrification,” he said. It's not development per se, it's community owned and community defined and community engaged.” This greening work is much more localized. “To me is when developers come in and displace people and people don't have a voice. Working toward busy streets through clean up and beautification, “it's very community engaged,” Zimmerman said. What we're talking about is nothing close to that.” “A lot of times there are neighborhoods, typically lower income, often people of color, and it's often displacement. “There's a big debate about this and I get it,” he said. They go after the easiest target and don't want to be apprehended.” “Where people are hanging out on the front porch and walking to say hi to a neighbor … A predatory criminal notices when they're being watched. And not just when it comes to group clean-up days like those our neighborhood association holds a few times a year. you have low levels of crime,” Major Judah said. “ communities that have a high level of social organization. Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images file Ken Rader mows his lawn in Santa Ana, California on Oct. He spoke with me following a recent safety meeting my neighborhood called following a daylight rolling gun battle that left historic homes riddled with bullet holes. Major Joshua Judah of Louisville's police department echoed that sentiment. “It's that people are paying attention and people care about the place.” Why does that matter? “It isn't that the grass is lower,” he said. (Meanwhile when the lot wasn't tended to, crime actually increased a little.) But it went down even more when community members were taking care of it.
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“What we found was with the professional mowers over time the crime went down,” he said. He's working on a paper now that looks at three conditions: a vacant lot that's not mowed, one that's mowed by a professional, and one where a neighborhood group takes care of it with mowing or a pocket park. “It’s also meant seeing the neighborhood come alive with food trucks, bike patrols and neighborhood cleanup days - all of which have increased quality of life and safety along the avenue,” Flintside reported. The result of these efforts? “According to the coalition’s latest report, assaults decreased 54 percent, robberies 83 percent and burglaries 76 percent between 20,” Zimmerman wrote.
Businesses across the street were inspired to fix up their places.” Once there was a place to go, “people started coming during the day, and at night wasn't as much of a hangout. But this liquor store had been called a “Stab 'n’ Grab” because of the frequent fights breaking out, he said, and this was a part of town with almost nowhere to go eat. For anyone who lives in a place where you can walk to get groceries or food anytime, putting in a Jimmy John's may not seem like much. One big success for the group and neighborhood was replacing a corner liquor store with a sandwich shop, Zimmerman said. Taking over an empty park, they put sidewalks in and made it more inviting.” They cleaned up the median, they put lighting up, made a bike path, they extended beyond this street. " gems of Flint in its heyday that had gone into disrepair and were run down. “What they did is say 'we're going to take control of this area,'” said Zimmerman.
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