Neighborhood Backgrounds

 

To best understand our local demographics, we have compiled a short list of issues facing our four neighborhoods.

 

Downtown

  • The speed and noise of traffic
  • Trash
  • Food access
  • Low access to other neighborhoods besides West Ward
  • Pharmacy not within 15 min for all residents

South Side

  • Access and mobility due to unlit streets
  • Potholes
  • Lack of footbridges 
  • Poor conditions during snow periods
  • Food access
  • Flooding of the rivers
  • Lack of care/lack of access to the rivers

West Ward

  • Traffic and car congestion from too many cars in the neighborhood
  • Maintenance of street trees
  • Lack of parks/isolated parks
  • Litter and garbage on streets
  • No access to grocery stores

College Hill

  • The speed and noise from traffic
  • Lack of effective crosswalks
  • Herbicide and salt use
  • Lack of trees.
  • Few to no green spaces or parks
  • Difficult to terrain to enter or exit
  • Limited schooling options