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City of New Haven wake up!
It's time to clean up Grand Avenue in Wooster Square. Enough is enough! The neighborhood is tired of being ignored. The homes in this neighborhood are expensive and pay significant taxes. We deserve to have this "dump" of a street cleaned up.
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NHVCyclist (Registered User)
https://seeclickfix.com/issues/2736631-wooster-square-neighbors-what-are-we-going-to-do-about-grand-ave
No response from any city representative.
Mahfouz (Registered User)
Start at Olive and work east toward Livingston.
A problem will remain, however: The sidewalk and street across from Farnam Court and outside the liquor store by Ferrarro's -- believe it's called the Coop Liquor Store -- is nearly always overflowing with alcohol containers and cigarette packs. Clean it today, by the weekend it'll be a filthy mess again.
This is also a trail for the homeless, who trek from the shelter on Grand through Wooster Square and downtown to the Green, often leaving a trail of trash and alcohol/tobacco litter.
What have other communities done to remediate littering? What are the options? You can't pass a law against littler because one already exists. How do you enforce it when it takes place 24-hours a day, every day?
The only solution is for those who want it cleaned up to clean it up ourselves. That will take organization and conviction.
NHVCyclist (Registered User)
Like I said in my previous post, we need an organized, city-supported solution, which may include cameras, better lighting, trash bins, and other improvements to make Grand an attractive place to walk, park your car, shop, etc as opposed to a cut-through and a trail for the homeless.
And yes, since it is a trail for the homeless (well known fact) - a unique burden on Wooster Square that no other neighborhood has, the city should be doing what it can to lessen the impact of that. Again, back to cameras, lighting, etc. If implemented smartly, this could be a mutual benefit for the neighborhood and also for those who require shelter services.
Mahfouz (Registered User)
Mahfouz (Registered User)
NHVCyclist (Registered User)
This is about creating positive, welcoming public spaces that people and businesses want to thrive in.
Better lighting and cameras improve safety.
Bike lanes and street parking calm traffic.
Improvements (which in my observation, include those listed above) have helped make former "dumps" into places that people actually want to spend time, and businesses can thrive, despite the same inherent problems that Grand has. See Howe St.
NHVCyclist (Registered User)
I'm not under some impression that any singular improvement will result in perfection. We don't have perfection even in the most highly-patrolled of downtown that have dedicated maintenance staff. What I do think the neighborhood deserves is effort - simple as that.
Downtown is an area where people want to spend time, and businesses thrive, despite persisting issues of litter/filth/low-level lawlessness/etc. It is an inviting place to be. Taking lessons-learned from downtown, chapel west, etc, and applying them to this small troublesome stretch of Grand Ave just seems like a smart course of action.
This is a neighborhood where homeowners pay high taxes, maintain historic homes that are integral to the charm of the city, go out of their way to keep public spaces clean, preserve trees, put up with the inherent issues caused by being on the "homeless trail," etc. We do our part, would like to see some effort on the part of the city.
Another Lyon resident (Registered User)
Department of Public Works (Verified Official)
NHVCyclist (Registered User)
Concerned Citizen (Registered User)
This project is going to take baby steps, but the first step is to make the City aware of the blight in this area. I hope this post has helped accomplish that task.
The key issues that I believe need to be discussed are the following:
1. Litter – Added trash receptacles
2. Building Blight: Unfinished exterior construction work at two buildings on Grand Ave between Olive and Jefferson. We all know who they are.
3. Storefront church relocation or forced requirements to improve building facades. This is the only “major” potentially active economic corridor in Wooster Square. Grand Avenue has the potential to offer so much to the City and our neighborhood. The dense building orientation is perfect for a thriving area of commerce. With the growing population and the increased property values in Wooster Square businesses will flock to this area when the street is revitalized. Due to its proximity (walking distance!)to downtown, it baffles me that the economic development department of New Haven hasn’t allocated more resources to this area. This fight should be initiated by the Wooster Square Alderman. Hello out there Greenburg, your constituents are asking for your help! Without your help we cannot make this happen.
4. Planter boxes along the Grand Ave between Olive and Jefferson.
5. Sidewalk sawcut Tree installation along Grand Avenue between Hamilton and Olive. This can be provided for free by URI a Yale Program.
This is just a start. We can make this happen!
Concerned Citizen (Registered User)
Concerned Citizen (Registered User)
Stängt Manager of Operations, Process Improvement - Transportation, Traffic, & Parking (Verified Official)