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