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2-23-11 Cluster Based Meeting Comments

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What is your favorite place in your neighborhood, other than your home? Please be specific.48223
What is your favorite place in your neighborhood, other than your home? Please be specific.8 mile/Dequindre
What is your favorite place in your neighborhood, other than your home? Please be specific.All – it’s a great neighborhood for walking 1-2 miles daily.
What is your favorite place in your neighborhood, other than your home? Please be specific.Belle Isle
What is your favorite place in your neighborhood, other than your home? Please be specific.Caf_ con Leche – on W. Vernor in SW Detroit
What is your favorite place in your neighborhood, other than your home? Please be specific.Detroit River and playgrounds
What is your favorite place in your neighborhood, other than your home? Please be specific.Focus hope
What is your favorite place in your neighborhood, other than your home? Please be specific.Focus: HOPE
What is your favorite place in your neighborhood, other than your home? Please be specific.Focus: HOPE pocket park – “Natures cupes”
What is your favorite place in your neighborhood, other than your home? Please be specific.Focus: HOPE, the library
What is your favorite place in your neighborhood, other than your home? Please be specific.Gesu green
What is your favorite place in your neighborhood, other than your home? Please be specific.Gesu green
What is your favorite place in your neighborhood, other than your home? Please be specific.Hyde Park
What is your favorite place in your neighborhood, other than your home? Please be specific.I am new to the neighborhood, building an affordable housing complex on Oakman Blvd. I don’t have a favorite place – yet.
What is your favorite place in your neighborhood, other than your home? Please be specific.I love seeing new businesses open in renovated historic properties.
What is your favorite place in your neighborhood, other than your home? Please be specific.I love walking along Oakman Blvd. I love, love, love the new Parkmas Library.
What is your favorite place in your neighborhood, other than your home? Please be specific.Le Petit Zing, St. Frances Cabrini Clinic
What is your favorite place in your neighborhood, other than your home? Please be specific.Location ease to leaving the city.
What is your favorite place in your neighborhood, other than your home? Please be specific.Most Holy Trinity Church/School, St. Frances Cabrini Clinic, Honey Bee, Nemo’s, Slows
What is your favorite place in your neighborhood, other than your home? Please be specific.Nardin Park
What is your favorite place in your neighborhood, other than your home? Please be specific.Other houses are lovely to look at, but business and parks are missing.
What is your favorite place in your neighborhood, other than your home? Please be specific.Palmer Park
What is your favorite place in your neighborhood, other than your home? Please be specific.Parents home
What is your favorite place in your neighborhood, other than your home? Please be specific.Parkman Branch Library. Focus: HOPE community activities
What is your favorite place in your neighborhood, other than your home? Please be specific.Parkman Branch Public Library M & W 12:00-6:00pm T,W & Sat 10:00-6:00pm [contact information removed]
What is your favorite place in your neighborhood, other than your home? Please be specific.Riverwalk from Mt. Elliott Park to Stroh River Place
What is your favorite place in your neighborhood, other than your home? Please be specific.Rouge Park
What is your favorite place in your neighborhood, other than your home? Please be specific.Russell Woods Park. Parkman Library.
What is your favorite place in your neighborhood, other than your home? Please be specific.Shipherd Greens Community Garden
What is your favorite place in your neighborhood, other than your home? Please be specific.The cultural center, theater district, Belle Isle, Dakot Inn, Redford Theater, Wayne University, River Walk, my residential neighborhood is dropping in value and getting dangerous.
What is your favorite place in your neighborhood, other than your home? Please be specific.The Fisher Blg.
What is your favorite place in your neighborhood, other than your home? Please be specific.The LaSalle Ford playground/The Focused Hands comm garden
What is your favorite place in your neighborhood, other than your home? Please be specific.The streets for an evening walk, or the riverfront park. There is not much activity in Indian Village.
What is your favorite place in your neighborhood, other than your home? Please be specific.The walking track at U of D high school on W. 7 mile rd that is made available to the community M-T 6-8am.
What is your favorite place in your neighborhood, other than your home? Please be specific.Visiting other neighbor’s homes in my neighborhood and experiencg the beauty and craftsmanship of the structures.
What is your favorite place in your neighborhood, other than your home? Please be specific.Voight Park.
What projects or activities are taking place in your neighborhood that we should be aware of?1) Revelopment of commerical building at Agnes and Van Dyke. 2) New use for Riverview Hospital.
What projects or activities are taking place in your neighborhood that we should be aware of?2011 Home Preservation Fair – Saturday, April 16, 2011 Sacred Heart Major Seminary
What projects or activities are taking place in your neighborhood that we should be aware of?All gas stations are selling ‘loosies’. Used cars being sold – not a car lot. Oils, candles being sold ON THE SIDEWALK.
What projects or activities are taking place in your neighborhood that we should be aware of?Annual fundraiser for student scholarship
What projects or activities are taking place in your neighborhood that we should be aware of?Community garden
What projects or activities are taking place in your neighborhood that we should be aware of?Community gardens. Acknowledge the community groups in each cluster.
What projects or activities are taking place in your neighborhood that we should be aware of?Construction of Oakman Place Apartments. Affordable housing for youth aging out of foster care. Across the street, NSO is working to renovate the old Yellow Pages building in order to house the chronically homeless.
What projects or activities are taking place in your neighborhood that we should be aware of?Cooperative housing development, home board ups, home rehab, provide service or access to services to community.
What projects or activities are taking place in your neighborhood that we should be aware of?Focus Hope’s Hope Village Initiative – town hall meetings, partnering with local schools, physical development, impacting the lives of children and families in the community surrounding Focus Hope.
What projects or activities are taking place in your neighborhood that we should be aware of?Gangs of youth threatening the older people as they walk or shop.
What projects or activities are taking place in your neighborhood that we should be aware of?Houses being stripped and burned.
What projects or activities are taking place in your neighborhood that we should be aware of?I am trying to find out myself.
What projects or activities are taking place in your neighborhood that we should be aware of?Look at our website! www.historicbostonedison.org
What projects or activities are taking place in your neighborhood that we should be aware of?Marathon Gas Station allows panhandlers to see marijuana
What projects or activities are taking place in your neighborhood that we should be aware of?National Light Out
What projects or activities are taking place in your neighborhood that we should be aware of?Park rehab and beautification
What projects or activities are taking place in your neighborhood that we should be aware of?Probation office – traffic congestion, people walking the street
What projects or activities are taking place in your neighborhood that we should be aware of?Radio patrol & neighbors watching neighbors
What projects or activities are taking place in your neighborhood that we should be aware of?Rehab of Michigan Bell Building, LCFS housing. Develop Oakman Place apts.
What projects or activities are taking place in your neighborhood that we should be aware of?Role of Van Dyke in the Vilages communiities (a n/s thoroughfare, a residential street w/commercial (intersections, hubs)
What projects or activities are taking place in your neighborhood that we should be aware of?Roosevelt Park development project (by the train station.
What projects or activities are taking place in your neighborhood that we should be aware of?Safety zone stations. W.A.R.D. community service worker program, alley clean up, snow shoveling
What projects or activities are taking place in your neighborhood that we should be aware of?St. Frances Cabrini Clinic. Most Holy Trinity Clothes Closet. Food Shelf.
What projects or activities are taking place in your neighborhood that we should be aware of?The Ford Piquette Avenue Plant National Historic Landmark birthplace of the Ford Model T; the care that put the world on wheels, cradle of Detroit’s automobile industry. All volunteer effort to preserve property and create automobile and industrial history complex. Considered by experts to be one of the one hundred most significant world’s industrial sites.
What projects or activities are taking place in your neighborhood that we should be aware of?There are a lot of new businesses and entrepreneurs bringing great & new revenue to Corktown.
What projects or activities are taking place in your neighborhood that we should be aware of?There is a new jazz bar in the old Rumors on the River space. They seem like they could use some attention, help & patronage.
What projects or activities are taking place in your neighborhood that we should be aware of?There is a new TLC Center at the Parkman Branch Library providing services like teaching people how to read, prepare for job readiness, and bridge the litercy divide in the city of Detroit. The Parkman Branch have over 80 computers and wi-fi, training classes, children’s programs, computer, litercy, and litercy one-on-one help.
What projects or activities are taking place in your neighborhood that we should be aware of?Vacant homes that are being vandalized.
What do you hope the Detroit Works Project will do for your neighborhood?1) Anything it can to support the efforts of Focus: HOPE in revitalizing the area known as Oakman East (Lodge to Hamilton, Oakman to Davison). 2) Demolish the burned out and vacant buildings.
What do you hope the Detroit Works Project will do for your neighborhood?Blight elimination (Intervale & Cloverdale)
What do you hope the Detroit Works Project will do for your neighborhood?Bring more programs for children and at-risk families.
What do you hope the Detroit Works Project will do for your neighborhood?Clean, safe, economically viable place to live, work and play. A clean, safe and inspiring place to raise and nurture children.
What do you hope the Detroit Works Project will do for your neighborhood?Correct. Get a handle on the rapid neighborhood decline and crime lack of police services.
What do you hope the Detroit Works Project will do for your neighborhood?Create business on Grand River and Joy Rd. Create jobs.
What do you hope the Detroit Works Project will do for your neighborhood?Create opportunities for safer living and healthier living.
What do you hope the Detroit Works Project will do for your neighborhood?Demolish homes that c/n be renovated. Vacant land that comes more park-like & that’s maintained. More retail/fewer vacant store fronts. Decreased crime (home B&Es) so that one isn ot a prisoner in ones own home.
What do you hope the Detroit Works Project will do for your neighborhood?Do away with vacant homes; in-fill those demolished keep streets clean; regularity of trash/bulk pick-up (awaiting recycling). Improvement of services in general (police DPQ, B&SS). Make positive relocated residents know/comply with neighborhoods.
What do you hope the Detroit Works Project will do for your neighborhood?Encourage businesses to locate in the neighborhood.
What do you hope the Detroit Works Project will do for your neighborhood?Encourage Detroiters to build Detroit.
What do you hope the Detroit Works Project will do for your neighborhood?Encourage the return of the police walking beat officer
What do you hope the Detroit Works Project will do for your neighborhood?Get us curbside recycling. Address houses needing up keep – painting, overgrown tres, unkept yards.
What do you hope the Detroit Works Project will do for your neighborhood?Help make it a safer place.
What do you hope the Detroit Works Project will do for your neighborhood?Help to alleviate the many complaints that I and other citizens have.
What do you hope the Detroit Works Project will do for your neighborhood?I am not worried about Indian Village. I am concerned what you are going to do for the rest of the East Side!
What do you hope the Detroit Works Project will do for your neighborhood?I hope Detroit Works will create a strategic investment plan for the city and that the mayor/council will develop a budget to execute this plan. This plan should reduce city spend and put us on par with other top performing cities. Result = lower taxes.
What do you hope the Detroit Works Project will do for your neighborhood?I hope Midtown becomes a more urban, walkable area with effective mass transit and a mix of uses – apartment buildings, shops, etc. I also hope it remains affordable and diverse.
What do you hope the Detroit Works Project will do for your neighborhood?I hoped that this process would allow for meaningful dialogue and out of the box solutions to the benefit of all the residents, first and other steakholders secondly.
What do you hope the Detroit Works Project will do for your neighborhood?Improve neighborhoods.
What do you hope the Detroit Works Project will do for your neighborhood?Improved services and access to quality amentities.
What do you hope the Detroit Works Project will do for your neighborhood?Increase a sense of community
What do you hope the Detroit Works Project will do for your neighborhood?Increase making landlords especially banks take care of empty houses
What do you hope the Detroit Works Project will do for your neighborhood?Involve community
What do you hope the Detroit Works Project will do for your neighborhood?Not sure
What do you hope the Detroit Works Project will do for your neighborhood?Promote redevelopment of vacant properties & consolidating of vacant lots with current resident owners. Plan for complete streets. (path pats running routes) Par space. Plan transit oriented development.
What do you hope the Detroit Works Project will do for your neighborhood?Provide help for the homeless: shelters & education/job assistance
What do you hope the Detroit Works Project will do for your neighborhood?Provide housing for the homeless
What do you hope the Detroit Works Project will do for your neighborhood?Provide information on how to obtain a city-owned property to be rehabilitated for free and sold or donated to a needy family.
What do you hope the Detroit Works Project will do for your neighborhood?Provide more services for seniors.
What do you hope the Detroit Works Project will do for your neighborhood?Provide neighborhood re-development assistance.
What do you hope the Detroit Works Project will do for your neighborhood?Re-establish stability as a significant, well-maintained, fully occupied historic district nationally sought after by tourists who wish a unique experience.
What do you hope the Detroit Works Project will do for your neighborhood?Reinforce the commitment of Detroit & suburban residents to their city – create hope for a bright future for the city, & be about getting to the work.
What do you hope the Detroit Works Project will do for your neighborhood?Relocate people into our vacant homes and make our streets safer.
What do you hope the Detroit Works Project will do for your neighborhood?Renovate the 7 abandoned or burnt out house on my block. Help us to create vegtable & flower gardens on open lots. Improved city services, due to moving people closer together.
What do you hope the Detroit Works Project will do for your neighborhood?Stabilize it. Get empty houses filled with people. Restore commercial on Livernois.
What do you hope the Detroit Works Project will do for your neighborhood?The city MUST target resources to certain areas of the city. There are not enough resources for 140 sq. miles. Neighborhoods that are targeted would have better services and police protection.
What do you hope the Detroit Works Project will do for your neighborhood?University District is fine – what can we do to welcome those displaced by this project to empty homes surrounding us? Planning for potentially empty buildings (B. Jordan School, All Saints Church) & empty lots to be redeveloped/re-used in acceptable manner.
What would you like the city of Detroit to look like in 30 years?“Green”-est city in US. Transit, transit, transit!: Neighborhood van routes to commercial areas. Commercial circulator bus on Livernois, another on McNichols. Many, many more buses & routes all over the city.
What would you like the city of Detroit to look like in 30 years?A clean, vibrant, bustling, cosmopolitan city.
What would you like the city of Detroit to look like in 30 years?A forward thinking/moving city that can provide for its residents and be a model to other cities.
What would you like the city of Detroit to look like in 30 years?A place rich in culture & arts. A city with a decent public school system. Plenty of libraries. Plenty of diversity.
What would you like the city of Detroit to look like in 30 years?Airport & seaport – WPA
What would you like the city of Detroit to look like in 30 years?As a minimum, as it was 30-40 years ago (where I lived), tree lined streets, nice residential homes/neighbors, etc.
What would you like the city of Detroit to look like in 30 years?Beautiful – flourishing, clean, well-populated
What would you like the city of Detroit to look like in 30 years?City of 850k people. Thriving downtown & cultural districts. Well utilized waterfronts. More parks/greenspace.
What would you like the city of Detroit to look like in 30 years?Clean and maintained but with the same spectacular structures but better community services.
What would you like the city of Detroit to look like in 30 years?Clean, safety structures with lots of green
What would you like the city of Detroit to look like in 30 years?Clean, well kept, neighborhoods, where the community is walking, meeting, greeting on the street; lots of trees & landscaping; greenways connecting neighborhoods w/each neighborhood proud of its unique assets & characters.
What would you like the city of Detroit to look like in 30 years?Cleaner, smaller, with fewer to no dilapidated structures, modern public transportation, and business downtown that will generate some night life.
What would you like the city of Detroit to look like in 30 years?Cleanup of streets for safety and great innovation for green technology (recycling, mass transit, energy resources). More racial diversity!
What would you like the city of Detroit to look like in 30 years?Detroit will have NODES or VILLAGES with more density, better services, more walkability, etc. The rest of the city will have large areas of green space with alternative land use.
What would you like the city of Detroit to look like in 30 years?Greater services for seniors – no taxes for seniors who own property
What would you like the city of Detroit to look like in 30 years?I would like Detroit to be both denser and greener in different parts. Most importantly, I would like to see the neighborhoods thrive.
What would you like the city of Detroit to look like in 30 years?If we are to get serious about shrinking the city, then we must reverse the annexation that occurred form 1900 to 1927! Sell the neighborhoods at the edges to the entities now across the city line.
What would you like the city of Detroit to look like in 30 years?Job center, beautiful, livable neighborhoods, greenway & spaces
What would you like the city of Detroit to look like in 30 years?Like it did 30 years ago – Good safe neighborhoods with banks, grocery stores – good public services and jobs!
What would you like the city of Detroit to look like in 30 years?Lots of Naturescape – forest – crops – farming
What would you like the city of Detroit to look like in 30 years?More tourist will help business downtown; new store fronts Downtown Detroit.
What would you like the city of Detroit to look like in 30 years?Much cleaner and neighborhood focused. A major recycling plant S/B in Detroit.
What would you like the city of Detroit to look like in 30 years?Much like the city 40 years ago, services within walking distance, mass transit with a rail system, thriving retail downtown, and in neighborhood. Much like Chicago, Ill. Older building being used for business and residential.
What would you like the city of Detroit to look like in 30 years?Much more greenspace, convenient public transpo
What would you like the city of Detroit to look like in 30 years?Mutti cultural-historcaly preerved homes/entire neighborhoods. Vancover Ontario (model)
What would you like the city of Detroit to look like in 30 years?Neighborhoods revitalized & that are walkable. Significant retail stores so that I don’t have to go to suburbs to find quality/affordable food, clothing or other household items. I would like to have a REAL sense of well-being so that I’m comfortable.
What would you like the city of Detroit to look like in 30 years?New homes, vital communities
What would you like the city of Detroit to look like in 30 years?Out of the ashes should rise a city of education, innovation, opportunity, stunningly beautiful architecture, parks, efficient public transportation, spotlessly lean, safe, thriving urban center
What would you like the city of Detroit to look like in 30 years?Safe schools, transit that shows up on time, and healthy food available in all areas. I would like to see jobs in the city. And police and EMS that show up in under 3 hours!
What would you like the city of Detroit to look like in 30 years?Similar to the way it looked in the early 60′s but improved.
What would you like the city of Detroit to look like in 30 years?Smaller footprint, neighborhood businesses, great city schools, wonderful city services, more cultural institutions, full range senior housing (independent, assisted, memory-impaired, rehab, hospice)
What would you like the city of Detroit to look like in 30 years?Stable, thriving. More urban forest land than any other urban city. Bike& pedestrian paths that traverse city greenways. Cohesive neighborhoods with safety improved. Municipal employees residing in city. Avg resident age 37. 1/2 of residents college educated.
What would you like the city of Detroit to look like in 30 years?Techology driven.
What would you like the city of Detroit to look like in 30 years?The majestic city I remember in the 1960′s and 1970′s.
What would you like the city of Detroit to look like in 30 years?The way I hear many seniors say it looked like 30 years ago or better.
What would you like the city of Detroit to look like in 30 years?The way it looked in the early
What would you like the city of Detroit to look like in 30 years?Thriving, united communities.
What would you like the city of Detroit to look like in 30 years?Vibrant, taking care poor, strong neighborhood, excellent neighborhood schools,
What would you like the city of Detroit to look like in 30 years?Well populated busy metropolis with well maintained parks and greenways.
Additional comments1) Be bold! Come up with a plan based on data/density
Additional comments2) LISTEN to the community – take to heart grassroots comments and efforts
Additional commentsAllowing tax credits & incentives for taking abandoned apartment builidings for creating work and residential space.
Additional commentsAlso, there needs to be discussion about how those who live in these areas will be buffered form the inevitable loss of property value when target areas are announced – not physically, but in terms of their financial investments. In the black community, homes and cars are often the only financial assets families have.
Additional commentsAs someone who witnessed and lived through multiple large scale relocation projects before coming to Detroit, I would like to hear more about what specifically will be offered to residents and business owners in areas selected for disinvestment. People need to know about incentives.
Additional commentsBundle parcel sale in based on value & large volumes.
Additional commentsConcern about seniors. Look as if seniors are being driven out of Detroit. Regarding housing & jobs.
Additional commentsConcern for people who have to move and can’t afford it.
Additional commentsDetroit needs to get its budget in check. Everything costs more in Detroit – both city services & public education. People leave Detroit or don’t consider moving here because of the cost. In most cases, you pay more for less. I know this may mean cutting jobs and/or services, but the city can’t afford to keep spending at this rate.
Additional commentsEncourage older/long-time residents to welcome the young (white) DIY-Detroiters – Also encourage young black folks to come back after college & join DIY Detroit – a lot of them can move in before any “gentrifying” & political tipping occurs.
Additional commentsFind a way to use E. DOMAIN to purchase MGM for fire & police adm office!! Thank “u”
Additional commentsGeneral funds – what departments fundle their income to GF.
Additional commentsGet rid of the over regulation, over taxation and “I don’t care what you want to do, you can’t do it” philosophy at city hall.
Additional commentsI am glad were allowed to attend this meeting. It was rescheduled from 2/21. I got a flyer off the bottle return at my local grocery store,. Gigante Prince Valley on Michigan and Livernois.
Additional commentsI am part of a group of medical students from UM engaging in health equity work and interested in working in urban/medically underserved areas. We are attending the meeting to get a sense of community opinions on Detroit’s future.
Additional commentsI have a proposal for retaining residents and rehabilitating our good housing stock.
Additional commentsI have signed up on the Detroit Works website with my email address, but have received NO communications. Why isn’t this easy, free tool being used to communicate with Detroiters?
Additional commentsI really was disappointed with the questions/answers on the project.
Additional commentsIf there are wider opportunities for individuals to become involved with Detroit Works, I would like to know!
Additional commentsIn my home & neighborhood, I would like to see a viable school system that prepares our youth to become positive forces in our city, state, country, world w/o having to leave the city to achieve it.
Additional commentsNeed to define the potential opportunities for the city made possible by a $650 million investment in the DIFT & a $5.3 billion investment by MDOT in SW Detroit.
Additional commentsOne last gripe: A city with buses that are consistently 25 minutes late is not a city of the future.
Additional commentsParks that are well maintained, where activities are provided for residents, both young & old.
Additional commentsPart of old Redford sold to Redford; Part of the former Fairview sold to Grosse Point Park; etc., from which they came!! De-annex!!
Additional commentsPlan to have more intergenrational events for the youth & seniors.
Additional commentsPlease be better communicators! I know you are trying, but try harder. For the ambition and scale of these plans, people need to hear more specifics from the project and the mayor. Talk to us!
Additional commentsPlease enforce the codes and ordinances currently on the books! Historic and general as well!
Additional commentsSchools that are effective, and safe.
Additional commentsSEE BACK for map

NODES/VILLAGES are necessary to concentrate resources. Open areas for alternative land use – farming, renewable energy.

Additional commentsSubsidized housing for creative people, such as artist, writer, musicians and the like.
Additional commentsThank you for involving citizens in this process.
Additional commentsThat’s all! Thank you for having these meetings!
Additional commentsThe City of Detroit has always been a bust and boom kind of town. Look at how innovation and venture capital and immigrants rebuilt the city after each bust. Detroit can be bigger and better!
Additional commentsThe Detroit police officers need to be trained on the laws & ordinances covered by the Dept of Administrative Hearings.
Additional commentsThe gentleman from the Dept of Transportation is uninformed about quite a few areas. Specifically in regard to historic property/neighborhoods.
Additional commentsThe W.A.R.D. has partnered with the Department of Correction to help clean up the city. We have worked close with D.P.W. in this matter.
Additional commentsThis process should also address (in some fashion) our land locked neighbors (Highland Park). Highland Park is currently the biggest source of blight/detraction from the area of my neighborhood.
Additional commentsWork with the Detroit Land Bank!