Registration and Comment Sheet Responses Detroit Works Project - January 27 - March 10, 2011

REGISTRATION AND COMMENT SHEET RESPONSES Detroit Works Project | January 27 March 10, 2011
This document contains open-ended responses from individuals engaged through the Detroit Works Project meetings between January 27 and March 10, 2011. Nearly 600 participants provided responses at eleven (11) meetings throughout the city or completed an online survey addressing the following five questions: This document includes the following: All original spelling and punctuation errors, per the professional transcription service that transposed participants handwritten responses. Responses along the lines of none, nothing, no. Names and contact information for public venues and figures (where respondents noted them).
1. What is your favorite place in your neighborhood, other than your home? Please be specific. 2. What projects or activities are taking place in your neighborhood that we should be aware of? 3. What do you hope the Detroit Works Project will do for your neighborhood? 4. What would you like the city of Detroit to look like in 30 years? 5. Additional comments
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REGISTRATION AND COMMENT SHEET RESPONSES | Detroit Works Project | January 27 - March 10, 2011
Question 1: What is your favorite place in your neighborhood, other than your home? Please be specific. (523 responses)
Detroit Institute of Arts, Gesu Community Green, Detroit City High School, Gesu Community Adolescent Life Coaching Center Butzel Rec. Center, Peterson Park Frank Lloyd Wright Home Palmer Park & golf course Palmer Park Golf Club and surrounding housing 6 mile to 7Mile/Livernois to Parkside 4 way tie. Gesu Complex, Morrison's House of Shoes, 1917 American Bistro, Savon Mkt Areas for recreation e.g. walking neighborhood streets, parks, universities and Palmer Park. These should be safe, well maintained, family & health centered Dakota Inn Rothskeller, Palmer Park Fountain and duck pond/cabin. Community garden on East Parkhurst. Childrens Park on John R/Grixdale & Greendale & Various Vegetable Gardens & My Neighbors Homes. Palmer Park Pocket Park - St. Martin Detroit Public Library-Sherwood Forest Brunch & Hubbard Brunch. 2. Walking, running Outer Drive - Southfield Freeway - Livernois Ave. 3. Biking Hyde Park & Palmer Park. Woodward near MI Ponchartrain Hyde Park is a lively but underutilized gathering place Gesu Play park, U of D Mercy & Marygrove College U of D Mercy, Gesu Church & School, U of D Jesuit H.S., Palmer Park, 1917 Restaurant on Livernois, U of D Coney Restaurant, Sherwood Forest, Palmer Woods, Dutch Girl Donuts State Fair Grounds. Palmer Park North Rosedale Park Belle Isle, Milliken Park, Waterfront Barbara Jordan Community Garden at Palmer Park Prepatory Academy Park on Bretton The streets of Sherwood forest - walking them Mikes Fresh Market, clean good selection, quality, nice people Jefferson Branch Library Palmer Park, Merrill Fountain & Lake Francis + University District & Sherwood Forest Neighborhoods Marygrove College, University of Detroit, University District, Sherwood Forest/Palmer Woods (Great Neighborhood) Rite Aide at 7 mile/Wyoming Kelly Park, Local green market during warm weather. Markets. Appreciate local Foodlandand Greenfield Markets The Bistro on Livernois/UD Jesuit HS 1917 American Bistro Walking the neighborhood, meeting, talking with neighbors, neighborhood activities car pool, gatherings 1917 American Bistro - Livernois and Outer Drive 1917 American Bistro Nazareth Lutheran Church and Tabernacle M.B. Church, both willing to work with the organization Northeastern District Police Station. The community caring and sharing the love of giving. Palmer Park is a jewel. It must be revitalized. All of it's infrastructure is in great need of repair. What can be done? How can it be saved with the limited resources that we have? The churches and grocery stores Dexter/Elmhurst Comm. Center/St. Cecilia Catholic Church - Livernois, 2 blocks north of Grand River Sam's Grill Walking on Parkside 2nd Block on Warrington - friends live there; front porch sitting happens there At the River Bank 1515 Broadway, Downtown. Coffee Shop - vibrant in the community with theatre in the back, Its where Jane plays chess, Also: Temple Bar. Cass & Temple. The other homes in the Division The Detroit Golf Course - even though I'm not a golfer or a member. The historic home for gatherings and events is an asset to the community.
There is not anything in my area that is a favorite place. Thawt get on the expressways, other than Detroit Penrose Apt. House/Art Garden That's the issue. There's NOTHING in my neighborhood, Both rec. centers closed & Northwest Act. Center lacks a lot. Michigan Central Station. Roosevelt Park as well. 1917 Bistro/Restaurant, Mikes Market, Savon Market Northstar Community Center Livernois, Palmer Park Palmer Park/1917 Bistro Fisher Building - Former GM Building. New Center One Walkable residential areas (Some) Livernois restaurants (Boston Mkt, 1917 Bistro, Baker's) and stores (CVS, Footlocker, Heritage Optical, Payless) Martin Park Building 3800 Puritan 1917 American Bistro Lyndon Greenway/Chalfonte Farming/Eliza Howell Park American Bistro 1917 American Bistro 1917 The 1917 Bistro (new restaurant at Livernois & Outer Drive), Mikes Fresh Market (newer, nicely kept supermarket), Palmer Park Palmer Park could be again if it was clean, safe, beautiful, maintained & utilized for skating, fountain, trails, etc. None Palmer Park Midtown W. Willis near Avalon (Bread), Eastern Market, Mexicantown The homes here are so unique and beautiful. I want to own a home here! Belle Isle I love the area of Midtown along with Eastern Market. It shows the values and service of community The BAMN office downtown because we take action, not just motivating people and carrying out NOTHING U of D/Sherwood/Greenacres. American Bistro on Liverois Walking the neighborhood, U of D campus, Palmer Park Downtown Downtown None, because there is nothing in my direct area (Recreation, shopping, grocery, etc.) Chrysler School 1917 American Bistro Palmer Park Neighborhood 1917 Bistro, University of Detroit, Marygrove Eastern Market Mexicantown in general, specifically along Bagley Street, where small businesses can thrive. I would like to jog at the Comstock playing field/Hubbell & Trinity Pet Store - Livernois - 7 mile I have no park. I have no clean streets. I have empty lots with Grosse Pointe Park garbage. St. Anne Downtown Roman Catholic Church Mark Twain School & New Mt. Herman Park Churches are strong.. Holy Redeemer, esp. Clark Park, community places and of course Compa's. None Campbell Library Downtown Detroit Riverwalk My local church. Patton Park voleenters for flowers and bueatifying questions. LASED My church Mexicantown Restaurant Caf con Leche Old Mexicantown commercial district; International Border Crossing Springdale Green playlot Springdale Green; All Saints Neighborhood Center; Sheilia's Bakery; Belle Isle
My neighborhood is devastated. I go to Belle Isle & look at the river to find a place of beauty. The view of Windsor & of Detroit's skyline is beautiful also. Neighborhood city hall Lafayette Park - (the actual park) - walking paths/parkgrounds/tennis courts/etc need to be prized/maintained. Riverwalk - is extremely important beauty/exercise/recreation, etc. Chrysler School - an extremely important asset to our neighborhood. River Walk 2.Cafe con Leche 3. Clark Park Kemeny Recreation Center Church - Waterfall M.B. Church; Recreation Center - Kemendy Center The mall. Unfortunately, there aren't many. However, the Mexicantown area is decent. I love all of Southwest Detroit from W. Grand Blvd & W. Vernor to W. Vernor/Dix near the Woodmere Cemetary area! Don't have one. Clark Park, Vernor corridor, Mexicantown Hyde Park. Baker's Keyboard Lounge. Caf con Leche, Holy Redeemer Church Caf con Leche; Living Arts @ Messiah Delray Boot Launch Campus Martius Park Area Clark Park - skating rink, Angel Garcia ball diamond, family picnic opportunities, ethnic festivals I actually love my entire neighborhood. My churches - Holy Redeemer, St. Hedwig, St. Francis. And Mexicantown business - on Vernor from W. Grand Blvd to Springwells. My favorite place is not in this country. Kemeny Center Bowen Library Taqueria mi Pueblo Clark Park, Riverside Park, Caf con Leche, Mexican restaurants, COMPAS, churches Riverside Park, Clark Park, Caf con Leche, Roosevelt Park, Fort Wayne Downtown, Riverfront Hacienda Foods (I work there) The Vernor Clark Park area as well as the Lawndale Vernor area. They have really been taking care of those neighborhoods. Los Galanes, Mexicantown, Clark Park, Riverside Park! Kemendy Center No place in my neighborhood is (NOT) my favorite place - I want out!! Keeping my block clean and from being vandalized. The only safe place other than my home is Mark Twain School & Greater Bethlehem Church Sweet potato pies. Well kept homes, yards, parks, recreation center and schools because kids are our future. (Stop! Dumming down our children.) Patton Recreation Center Perfect Caf Greenacres Neighborhood Park Zion Lutheran Church My church - St. Stephen Lutheran Church Fort Wayne Park & Community Center (privately built) Kemeny Recreation Center Casinos - clean safe - environment - Motor City - friendly to all Clark Park, restaurants in general area. Campus Martius, Riverwalk, Hart Plaza Clark Park, Vernor storefronts, Bagley St. bridge W. Vernor Hwy, Springwells & Mexicantown Areas Home - Riverwalk. Work - restaurants and service agencies. Clark Park Walkability My job - that I'm able to walk & bike to work everyday (Greening of Detroit) Franklin Wright Settlement Center Belle Isle where our group of seniors walk every morning weather permitting. Tim Horton's across from Belle Isle, a good, close to home place for coffee. Try the hot chocolate, delicious. Outdoors in shared spaces! Pocket Park (maintained by neighborhood residents - (next door to the McMan's house)
I like it because it has a lot of potential to be a vibrant urban district with shops and apartments and businesses lining the street. It is a starting a little. Our community gardens: Hope Takes Root, Brother Nature Russell Bazaar, Eastern Market Friends & homes - social activities - sense of community. Restaurants/bars Woodbridge Pub, Cass Cafe. Community garden. Great town, theatre district The Hope District, Belle Isle Neighborhood at all (live righ)! Neighborhood! Tree Farm Campus Martius & all the activity along Michigan Ave. Also small neighborhood parks. Michigan & Trumbull Michigan Central Station. Corktown in general. The historic buildings like the church up Woodward near to the CVS. Friends of Detroit Value World - great thrifting! Kim's Produce - a great place to run into neighbors & pick up quality groceries I love my block. We have a couple of small common spaces outside that everyone uses, and it lets me get to know neighbors, have get-togethers or meet w/ the block club. Cass Caf The Shack Community Garden The corner store. Recycle Here Apex Bar, Firehouse Garden, Peaches & Greens Grocery Store Clark Park; Ice Rink/Large Park Area Clark Park Clark Park Riverside Park I find my neighborhood to be a generally beautiful place, particularly Leverette Street. I enjoy several businesses in my neighborhood, specifically PJ's Lager House, John K. King Bookstore, Hello Records and Mudgie's Deli. The Hub, bicycle shop The N. Woodbridge Community Garden Eastside: Balduck Park. Corktown, Spirit of Hope, Most Holy Trinity, The Pocket Parks, St. Peter's. Spirit of Hope Tiger Stadium (site) Motor City Brewing Works and Avalon Bakery provide great community gathering places. Woodbridge Pub Friends/neighbor's yards & corner lot. Public library. Hygrade Deli Trumble Park, Riverfront Park at the base of 24th st, at the Detroit River unil DBIC hijacked it. Please defend city properly from this! Spirit of Hope Church. Retail activity & central institutions Eastern Market. Atlas Global Bistro. Dequindre Cut. Eastern Market. Campus Martius. Belle Isle. New Center Park The Green Alley. Great model/example of progressive thinking/cooperation. Imagination Station. CCS. Woodbridge Pub Woodbridge Pub Eastern Market Empty lot. People all around Woodbridge walk there dogs there. It should be a real dog park instead of just an empty prairie. My community garden. The family place. Spiral Collective/Willis Village Local pubs & businesses Dequindre Cut Woodbridge Pub, Matthai Field, MOCAD, DIA Fischer Building Hope Takes Root Co-Operative Garden on Wabash in N. Corktown.
Murphy Lot (Park), Old Tiger Stadium, Roosevelt Park, Train Station Corktown Cadieux Caf - Great local gathering place. The house of worship. And activity centers. The shops & restaurants on Willis & Canfield (Re:View, Avalon, Flo's, Goodwell's, the Spiral Collective, City Bird, Bureau of Urban Living, Motor City Brewing, Traffic Jam & Snug) I just like walking through the neighborhood and looking at the houses. There aren't really any amenities besides the gas station and the 2 liquor stores a few blocks in each direction. The closeness of Belle Isle is nice. Sorry to be mushy, but the friendly neighbors is the best part of living on Field Street. Cabrini Health Clinic - provides free health clinic including mental health services for all Lager House, Slows, Old Tiger Stadium. Really the Michigan Corridor (specific to Corktown) Honey Bee Market, Motor City Brewery, Detroit Institute of Arts, Caf D'Mongo's I have no favorite place in my neighborhood, my neighborhood is drug infested, filled with strip clubs, liquor stores, bars & scrap yards. Wayne County College. WSU. Our Lady of Good Council CVS. Randazzo Fruit Market. The whole block of Elgin. Farwill Senior Community Center, Church Senior C. Rec. Center St. John Conner Creek Village United Coney Island - Conant. Solomon's Temple - E 7 Mile. Lincoln Branch Library - E 7 Mile. Imperial Supermarker - 8 Mile & Dequindre. Rite Aid Pharmacy - 8 Mile & Dequindre. The Wilder Library Russell Woods Park Church Solomon Temple. Library on Conant. Park wishsen park I love North Rosedale's location and commercial strip on McNichol's & Grand River at Southfield Fwy -> Outer Drive. William Becicham Academy and surrounding blocks. Selected blocks that remain stable. Conner playfield. Chandler Park Library Balduck Park. Eastside Detroit. Matrix Human Services/Detroit Public Library Library Farwell Park & Chandler Water Park Lasky & Jane Field. Intersections north or Charles Street, south of Davison, east of Conant St and west of Moenart Street. The residential streets in our Greenacres neighborhood are all lovely to walk through. Lipke Recreation Ctr. Activities for kids and adults. Eastern Market 2. Boardwalk Downtown 3. CHW Museum of African Amer. History It was Belair shopping center, but it is gone. There is no favorite place in my neighborhood other than my home. My church Access to all major intersections to most local business including my drive to Belle Isle. Randazzo Balduck Park. Corrigan Park. Wilder Library Wilder Library Lipke Rec Center, Wilder Library Milbank Connor Creek Greenway Wilder Public Library Wilder Branch Library While I've never been a resident of the City Detroit, as a child my mother would always take us down there and I developed a love for the city, I think my favorite area would be Belle Isle. Akebulan Africian Centered Parks - Clark & sometimes Patton. Local coffee shop. I - Greenway My church and the Jefferson Branch Library. Church is located on Outer Drive
near Jefferson branch. Rec center I have no favorite. I love all of Detroit! Library, Museum, DIA area. Library & restaurants Wish-Egan Park - Beautiful restoration. St. Raymond Church for its many events & programs. Jefferson Branch Library, Maheras-Gentry Park, Chandler Park Eliza Howell park & the new corner park located on Beverland. Alica Howell Park City Covenat Church City Mission, City Covenant and some of the churches located in Brightmoor are assisting people located in Brightmoor. The library. The North Rosedale Community House and park. Rabbit's Run Garden in Brightmoor. Java House. It's a new coffee house that provides an array of eating oppunties. Rosedale Park Baptist Church None. There is no coffee house, shopping, or casual restaurants in walking or driving distance. (My neighborhood is Grandmont). I am sorry to say that apart from neighborhood organizations e.g. GRDC & the community association (GCA) & neighbors there is little else that is a favorite place. Eliza Howell if the road was repaired. Eliza Howl Nature Trail. The Eliza Howl Nature Trail is very beautiful. The Louisa Mayes Seed Park on Lamphere. The park and Eliza Howel. Java House. Blight Busters. Artist Village Detroit. Leland Mission Baptist Church. City Covevant Church Our block - Warwick. Walking in Rosedale. St.Christine's Cristian Serv. Community garden @ Lamphere. Scotty's Fish & Chips My favorite place is Brightmoor Solutions are newly developed organized that is determined and dedicated to our youth future. Artist Village/Motor City Java House Detroit Hope Church. Crowell Community Center. Brightmoor Community Center. Detroit Community Schools. Eliza Howell Park. Numerous gardens. Lyndon Greenway. North Rosedale Park Community House and Park to attend community events and youth sports events. North Rosedale Park Community House & Grounds. City Covenant Church Eliza Howell Park Cathedral Faith Eliza Howell Park, the nature trails that runs through it, & the river rouge. Eliza Howell City Park off 5 mile just east of Telegraph. Its a natural haven. I cross-country ski, run & bike there. The pocket park on Beaverland & the trails threw the neighborhood that leads to the Eliza Howell Park We are a business. Brightmoore Community Center Wellspring NA - no favorities I can't really say a favorite place because they are several places that I go. The Redford Library. The Brightmoor Comm Center. Rouge Park, etc. Library building picture wall east side Our community gardens, pocket parks, Eliza Howell nature trail. Also artist village. The farming on Grayfield south of Fenkel The farmway Brightmoor Youth Garden Brightmoor Youth Garden near my home I do not think this is important for DWP. Moving forward the city needs to alleviate the environmental justice burden of pollution. Eliza Howell nature trail (from Beaverland across river into park) - snowshoeing, cross country skiing, hiking, bird walks Any of our neighborhood gardens & orchards. Eliza Howell Park. Spiral bench
(Louise Mayes Seed Park). Scotty Simpson's Fish & Chips. Curtis Green Pocket Park. Chalfonte Farm Lane. Scotty's Fish & Chips Downtown Old Redford including: Redford Theatre, Paul's Barbershop, Sweet Potato Sensations Grandmont Farmer's Market - Scotty Simpson's Fish & chips in Brightmoor. Christ the King Church Christ the King Church Rouge River Park Swimming Pool & Park. City Mission. Stopel Park. City Mission Playground & the shaded benches @ City Mission. Rouge Pool in the summer. Stout Park walking track & play ground City Convenat & Brightmoor Pray House. 15045 Burt Road The children's garden in Brightmoor. We have an office in Southfield but we would like to move to Detroit and the Brightmoor area. The open space. Parks and gardens. Crowell Park Gesu Church Grandmont Rosedale Development Corporation (GRDC) building. North Rosedale Community House. The parks in Rosedale Church G.G.T. Son's school in Southfield. Rosedale Grandmont Farmer's Market, Southfield Service Dr., in the parking lot of Bushnell Congregational Church Lyndon area Golf course The church grounds and building at Elevation Fellowship Temple Clark Park Motown Museum Metro Foodland @ Grandland - The friendliest store in town! Northwest Detroit Farmer's Market. Northwest Detroit Farmers' Market, at the parking lot on the south side of Bushnell Congregational Church Northwest Detroit Farm Market Northwest Detroit Farmer's Market sponsored by GRDC. Located at Bushnell Church. Rosedale Recycles at Christ the King Church. Farmers Market at Bushnell. Metro Foodland at Grandland Shopping Center. NW Detroit Farmers' Mkt See comments from [name removed] Flintstone Park. N Rosedale Community House. Petersen Park North Rosedale Park Community House. Farmers Market. Elevation Fellowship. Roguell Golf Course None Community center and park which are centrally located and the location for activities including youth (& adult) sports; holiday events, plays, concerts Denby Center Tuttle Park. Anderson Park - Northwest Detroit. Right now there is none and that is the problem. Marygrove College Campus N. Rosedale Community House & Park Rouge Park! Rouge Park The Park & Community House in North Rosedale Community center North Rosedale Park - helps keep the community together Neighborhood park Clark Park, Patton Park Woodbridge Pub - especially the outside seating area in the summer. I like it is within walking distance from our home. The Avenue of Fashion Livernois shops, eateries, library & post office. Johnson Rec Center should be reopened or look at for other opportunities. Penrose Village Homes, Penrose Art House and Art Garden, ACC Youth Center. 7 Mile John R Business Assoc. Theater Bizzare. Dairy World. Golden Gate Caf. Dakota Inn/Ratskeller
North Rosedale Park I enjoy walking throughout the neighborhood, especially along Rogell Golf Course Cass Corridor Cass Avenue between Warren and Mack Avon/Scarsdale area in N. Rosedale Eliza Howell Park Rouge Park Woodbridge Pub. Proof of pent-up demand for sit-down dining options in this racially & economically diverse gem of a neighborhood near WSU. Other restaurants would thrive in this area also. Library None at this time. Park Neighborhood, parks Local Flea Market along Grand River Ave. 2. William Walker Recreation Center Park-like atmosphere & greenspaces Church Fairlane Supermarket or St. Christopher Church. Abe's Cleaners None None - to much drugs in the area Rouge Park Feel unsafe to go out after I get home from work (Please! Help us) I don't know! I can't walk safely in my neighborhood. Have to leave for a healthy restaurant. Mazan Foods Riverwalk from Mt. Elliott Park to Stroh River Place Hyde Park Gesu green 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. The Fisher Blg. Parents home Belle Isle Visiting other neighbor's homes in my neighborhood and experiencg the beauty and craftsmanship of the structures. Focus hope Location ease to leaving the city. 48223 Le Petit Zing, St. Frances Cabrini Clinic Most Holy Trinity Church/School, St. Frances Cabrini Clinic, Honey Bee, Nemo's, Slows Parkman Branch Public Library M & W 12:00-6:00pm T,W & Sat 10:00-6:00pm (313)481-1810 Rouge Park Gesu green I love walking along Oakman Blvd. I love, love, love the new Parkmas Library. 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. Other houses are lovely to look at, but business and parks are missing. 8 mile/Dequindre The streets for an evening walk, or the riverfront park. There is not much activity in Indian Village. Russell Woods Park. Parkman Library. Voight Park. I love seeing new businesses open in renovated historic properties. The LaSalle Ford playground/The Focused Hands comm garden Parkman Branch Library. Focus: HOPE community activities Focus: HOPE, the library Caf con Leche - on W. Vernor in SW Detroit Shipherd Greens Community Garden Nardin Park I am new to the neighborhood, building an affordable housing complex on Oakman Blvd. I don't have a favorite place - yet. All - it's a great neighborhood for walking 1-2 miles daily. Palmer Park
Detroit River and playgrounds Focus: HOPE Focus: HOPE pocket park - Natures cupes Downtown Belle Isle, Chene Park Marygrove College Fishing on the river Mack Alive Belle Isle, Riverfront, Eastern Market Fort Wayne is wonderful with its tunnels, embankments, view of the river. [illegible] I can rollerblade Indian Village Indian Village and Grosse Pointe Belle Island, Church of the Messiah, Church of the Messiah Housing Corporation Belle Isle, The Bogg's Center, Butzel Family Center, Churhc of the Messiah Comm. Center Brush Ford Park Balduck Park Neighborhood garden, social parks, I enjoy it all the good & bad. In my areas if there are issues that we as neighbors are not happy w/we seek 4 solution/solve Park Parks canals The Mark Twain Annex Library. I wish that it could be a full service library again. 2) Pingree park. Riverwalk My home and Belle Isle. Riverwalk. Alfred Ford Brush Park The Detroit Water Park area Riverfront (Ford Park, Mahas Park) Alfred Brush Ford Park U of D Mercy. 1. My neighborhood. 3. Palmer Park Belle Isle Cultural Center. Riverfront. Belle Isle. Clark Park The missing recreation center Aldi Midtown area & Mack Avenue. Woodward/Warren/John R./Cass/MLK Blvd/Van Dyke/Mack I love riding my bike in Indian Village to the Riverwalk. Belle Isle Belle Isle, Riverwalk Belle Isle (in need of attention) (charge an admission fee) Mack retail, retail on Warren, Alger Theatre, Balduck Pk. Park @ Warren & Alter (forgot name) Cadiuex Caf Detroit Riverwalk/Mililler Park The Hamtramck CBO Fort Wayne Parks along the Detroit River. The commercial corridors in the closest suburb I live near. Grosse Pointe area has a vibrant community. Walking along Woodward, south of Warren Bell Isle. Starbucks. Riverfront parks The 2 parks on the river at the end of Parkview & Fiske, respectively.
The house I was born & raise, my church the area around, the playgrounds, restored Georgia St. Community Garden The river. One the East Side, I frequent Eastern Market and Belle Isle. In Midtown, the restaurants and galleries. The Starbucks 1/2 mile away and the cultural institutions. The area around City Airport has one well maintained park. There's no safe place to walk. My favorite place is my backyard. Detroit City Airport aka Coleman A Young International Airport Downtown Detroit Matrix Community Center because of all the positive activities that serve our regional area Riverfront Woodbridge Pub There a number of locations; movie theater a neighborhood super market are two of the locations. Unfortunately, I don't have a place that is my favorite. I go out of the city to shop for grocery, clothing, furniture, entertainment and lodging. (Except Fox Theatre, musical hall, museums) Balduck Park Balduck Park Clark Park Boys and Girls Club Clark Park Personal - Murphy's Playlot, Mudgies Deli, Walking neighborhood. Work Dingman Park St. Gabriel Parish Clark Park Taco Truck. Old Tiger Stadium field. Our Lady of Good Counsel Church My whole neighborhood is my favorite place The newly built bridge on Ridge, plus the River Rouge river that runs through the neighborhood. Mexican Town LASED Good variety of small groceries who offer produce & goods comparable to stores of burbs. Clark Park Sadly, I do not now do anything in my neighborhood but live. All other places I go are in Midtown, Allen Park, Lincoln Park or Dearborn. This includes shopping (Allen Park & Dearborn & Detroit Midtown) services (Lincoln Park mostly and Melvindale) & Bally's in Fairlane in Dearborn. Balduck Park for sledding and sports etc I am not a citizen of Detroit (yet), however, I am relocating this summer and am looking forward to continuing my education and investing time and energy into this future great city. I live in Royal Oak, downtown, but for me my favorite place in Detroit is Eastern Market. Belle Isle! Please reopen the Aquarium and Zoo. Jefferson and Vandyke I do not live in the city, but worked in the cit for 20 years. My favorite area is the Woodward Corridor between Campus Martius and Grand Circus, there is so much potential for reuse of great buildings. Woodbridge Pub My favorite place in my neighborhood is the River Walk. Belle Isle is also near my neighborhood and is fantastic! I ride my bike in these places multiple times a week. wayne State campus I am not a Detroit resident at present, but I am a life-long Detroiter and supporter and would love to move back to the City. The neighborhood I would like to move to is Corktown. Belle Isle, E Grand Blvd and Jefferson We need more services in Mainstreet Detroit area. (Downtown): Grocer, Retail, Community Theatres, Training Centers, Small Business Funding Boll Family YMCA - Broadway and John R
Although I live and am rasing my family in the comunity outside of the city, we have always been drawing to the riverfront district near chene park. The brick lined streets, proximity to the river activities, live entertainment, historic industrial buildings, and new green path have only strengthened this draw to the river and the city. The river is the key to the region!!! I live in Warrendale and I like the proximity to suburban shopping and downtown. The best thing about my neighborhood is a variety of markets that cater to the arabic and polish community. This keeps the bisiness district somewhat vibrant. Boll Family YMCA My favorite place is Goodwell's Natural Foods. While some of the staples are expensive, the sandwiches are only $5 and are all mostly vegan. They have great sales and the produce is fresh, often organic and reasonably priced. Last week Empress even complemented my Mongolian hat. They sell great Michigan products, like cherry juice or Panda tofu. My whole neighborhood and community is my favorite place besides home. Gratoit betw. Van Dyke/Harper Ave. near I-94 east, west exchange! Campus Martius and the stadium district highlight the potential of vibrant urban lifestyle. Unfortunately there isn't a favorite place as I don't feel safe where I live. I am a lover and believer in Detroit and want to see the city revitalize and prosper. I live in the East Village area off Jefferson and Van Dyke. My favorite thing about my neighborhood is living near an international border. I love that we can see Canada from my condo window and visitors from the city find it interesting as well. Detroit needs to make greater use of that gem and continue to build the downtown area where 'visitors' can see and want to live here as well instead of just leaving the city after work. I also love the clean parks like Stockton and Erma Henderson (most times). People will enjoy clean green neighborhoods with valuable resources such as markets and shopping the most. I have lived in my part of town since I can remember and the best place in my area was always the L. George's Coney Island on Joy rd. I remember in better times me and my father use to walk up to the Coney Island and sometimes as a family ride our bike though rouge park. Coney Island was the spot everyone there either knew your name or order if you frequented alot the service had always been friendly and the food was not bat at all. If I could go back to when I felt safe enough to walk to Coney Island I would but now its gotten so bad I only go if an absolute must. Cafe con Leche I work downtown in the financial district. I have to say that the intersection of Griswold and Fort is probably my favorite place in the city. DEQUINDRE CUT This is a fantastic bit of greenway that both seems to embrace the current climate and culture in Detroit, while showing that there is commitment to new visions and ideas related to where people live, work, and play and who does these things. A stunning example of how to turn something useless (those old train tracks) into something useful (a greenway from the river front to Eastern Market).
Question 2: What projects or activities are taking place in your neighborhood that we should be aware of? (431 responses)
Rehabing structures, more volunteer participation in security patrol and assisting neighborhood schools. If not the best we have the 2nd best police-community relations organization. The Great Northwestern District Police Community Relations Organization, on the meetings held last Monday of every month, at the Bushnell Congregational Church. Doping in alleys, cars that are stolen, drugs in area Livernois improvements, private security activities, paid volunteers Aggressive beautification plans in the works for the University District 6 & 7 mile & Livernois boundaries. University Commons/projects, 12th Precinct Neighborhood Coalition projects. Gesu Community Projects, Palmer Park Preparatory Academy Citizens Radio Patrol (University of Detroit). Beautification committee University District Community Association. City wide initiative - apply in our neighborhood - public safety Playhouse 313, a group of residents working to establish a local visual and literary arts venue Northpointe Academy - Although located South of McNichols on John R. in Highland Park they are servicing educational needs of many Detroit residents. Respondent indicates Unknown We have a superb neighborhood association that plans several activities and keeps residents informed (Sherwood Forest) Utilization of U of D M and Marygrove expertise more Work & cooperation w/ 13 other neighborhoods (part of 12th pct. Neighborhood coalition) on on vacant properties, safety & securing & legislation and conservation of the area & city. B.Work w/ that & 2 other coalitions of business development & land use of NW to central area. C. Work on revitalizing Palmer Park - and bringing back the State Fair. ULI Livernois corridor study, Green Acres. Citizen patrol - a replicative model for citizen enforcement, people for Palmer Park AUDCA's Home Tours, Community Association Meetings Home and garden (UDCA) every two years, UDCA Radio Patrol, central area, homes being purchased by investors with rentors as occupants are growing in neighborhood Every two years our association have a home garden tour that brings in people from other areas to show our lovely homes/gardens. Block parties. GRDC Neighborhood Stabilization program, (various locations) Abondoned homes, people terrorizing neighborhoods, occupied homes being broken into Many things. Patrols, Farmers market, community meetings and gatherings, vacant house watch, gardens The impact of Livernois medians on local businesses GWCA Radio Patrol Youth athletic programs, Finney-Crockett, faade improvements, community gardens, school improvements Crime/robbery directly outside of UDM gates on Fairfield Street At key intersections in this area things are happening - Greenfield & Puritan a grocery store anchors those neighborhoods. How to connect to the core areas is key Good neighborhood organizations Very strong and viable neighborhood associations Patrol get togethers, extended family gatherings including others concert in the park, fams day, Halloween activities, etc Radio Patrol, Concert and picnic @ Hyde Park, Kids & Family Day @ Hyde Park VCO Project/People 4 Palmer Park Goal is to reduce blight, save and get occupancy of home before stripping, distruction and burnings cause loss beyond repair. Joy Road, Dexter Ave, Grand River to W. Grand Blvd Livernois & Webb Business district area. Grand River & Livernois I am unaware of any at this time. Neighborhood Alliance Meeting, Brightmoor There is a desperate lack of attractive amenities in my neighborhood. No exercise gyms, limited parking space, no coffee bars, no WI FI centers, no family restaurants Running in Palmer Park The Sherwood Forest Association is excellent Gesu Communities United - citizens working together to address problems. Gloryland Garden (behind Gesu parish offices) an organic community garden, U District Community Patrol - citizen patrol Drugs, dumping, abandoned houses This is scheduled with dates to Livernois Business District
Positive: The Palmer Woods Neighborhood Association has a well supported series of music concerts for residents Negative: home break ins I live near and alley. People dump everything all the time. Service station, pawn shop, motel, car wash. Penrose Art House - Summer art classes for local kids - Run by volunteers. Penrose Art Garden - Kids built the garden with help of local urban farmer John Wisniewski - Expanding this Summer for kids participation and education City Year activities at UDM We need a CDC. Roosevelt park (Community partnership) Faade improvements at Wildemere and McNichols Business Incubator Walking in communities, bike riding, cleaning with neighbors and businesses UDC Revitalization/Urban Land Institute. Pro: Positive new homes are currently being built east of woodward in New Center Area. Con: Drug use and dealers on Seward between Woodward and Second resulting in break-ins. 1917 Bistro, Bakers Lounge, walkable residential areas, faade improvements on Livernois, coordinated community safety across sub-n'hoods Faade renovations, commercial corridor development work on the suggestions from the Urban Land Institute visit Brightmoor Gardens/Greenway/Eliza Howell Park New Homes The Sherwood Forest Association is outstanding in its promotion of the entire neighborhood We have a very active Civic Association and Volunteer CB Radio Security Patrol that has really done a lot to keep our neighborhood stable and desirable. Even so, there are pockets of drug activity in the neighborhood that the DPD dont seem to care too much about The median on Livernois is not needed In the city soup at Spaulding Court-positive. Churches feeding homeless in cass park and not cleaning up afterwards (neg-) Feedom Freedom community garden. Fishing at mariners park - JEBA community patrols All activities going on I try to attend from community meetings, restaurants, community gardens We're building a teacher/student movement Extensive activities at Palmer Park Academy, University District Home Fair, University District Beautification Committee Be careful in the streets, public safety a problem. Sister was robbed Education & training for returning citizens I and my newly developed block would like to be given one of the boarded up buildings on Grand River (Wyoming and Schaefer) for a community building so we can begin to clean up the neighborhood. Lafayette Park (Plaissance) Complete the Original Design Concerts in the Homes You closed all the schools and recreation centers. What is there now? Chuch Services, Block Club, Library There is nothing truly going on. If we had more businesses and positive recreational facilities for both seniors and youth. The Welcome Center OUR KIDS COME FIRST (parents org., 10+ schools), YOUTH VOICE (13-19 yrs) chapters in 12 schools/agencies/churches, SW Detroit Principals Network Center of Music and Performing Arts, community public event, public art None Attacks on immigrants that are not reported or not investigated. Burning house, slashing of homes. Congress of Communities - good neighborhood There are not many activities available without the presence of the various churches. My church tries to address the spiritual needs of the communty through biblical counseling. Greenworks Detroit Large mixed-use planned development located on the east side of I-75/West Vernor - Tourist/commerical district - developer is Southwest solutions & others. Urban Neighborhood Initiatives is in a STRONG partnership with many Southwest Detroit non-profits to implement a comprehensive neighborhood plan for Springwells Village.
The community plan for the Springdale and Woodmere neighborhoods in Springwells Village. The youth development plan for Springwells Village. The Congress of Communities. Jordan Health Center at Marcus Garvey Academy; St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church - a vibrant community. Strong network of Co-Op/townhouse association boards of residents. REAL Riverfront East Alliance - strong community building rghd. Riverwalk development - extremely important asset! 20 Block & Mexicantown Vernor Bagley Vista 2. Roosevelt Park Kemeny Recreation Center has a Reading Corner. A collaboration between the Det Public Library was instrumental in this project. Also, Detroit Digital Justice Coalition has rec'd an American Revocery Art Grant. Kemeny Rec Center wil receive computers, also Kemeny has been wired for wireless computers. Drugs being sold on Glenwood and Hayes. Reinvestment in Industrial Park on Intervale. Community gardens. Not enough marketing to let people what is happening! Clark Park Youth Development, Green infrastructure planning, community beaut work, community count initiatives SWSolutions services: medical clinic, mental health, community banking Garden on Hubbard/Porter. Living Arts @ Messiah & Compass. Strong community in Hubbard Farms (we have a list serve, progressive dinner, community meetins, etc.) We are trying to plan for the possibility of new internation crossing located in Delray. We need cooperation from city of Detroit to protect the existing community and those who will be moved. Boston-Edison Home Tour. Garden Tour. We would like St. Anthony's church to be tehre for the next 100 yrs. In order to exist we need to grow the church, ideally with Lithuanians, but also from surrounding community. A small charter school is possible at St. A's. See our local churches and schools who are constantly active! Demolitions of Munger. Liddesdale - Pleasant Detroit Water's Sewage Project. Fort St. Marathon expansion. S.W. Housing Solution's Rehab, organizing and development COMPAS Arts [illegible] @ Oddfelllows Building Riverside park maintenance (park extension), CHASS Clinic expansion, Scotten Park housing project, Vernor/Livernois development Urban Neighborhood Initiatives Parks model to ensure every neighborhood has parks I founded an internet start-up, work-flow.biz, that will help the city govt operate w/ maximum efficiency Revitalization of Vernor Hwy's stores & businesses. Not much. That's the problem. Low cost or free activities, multi-cultural activities. The increase tax abatement to the oil refinery for the Detroit/[illegible] area - If they want to make it an industrial place then they should give the home owner good funds to relocate. Marathon Refinery Expansion Our organization is working to save our community at 48217 Blighted homes are being demolished very soon. Mark Twain School just received a library makeover Nov. 2010. I have pictures if you need them. We need existing buildings for businesses restored as they have been on Vernor. Gateway Project Neighborhood activities: annual jazz concert in the park; home tours. Newsletters - community board: informs neighbors about what's going on in the neighborhood. Partnership between Zion Lutheran Church and Voyageur School to acquire blighted property. Demolish dangerous structures and build a pre-school, senior living cneter and affordable infill housing. Kids Klub - 3rd Sat of month. Basketball for kids - Wed 4-6 (church) Oddfellows Hall, Library We have created a comprehensive neighborhood improvement plan for the area bounded by Springwells, Vernor, Fort & Woodmere (Springdale & Woodmere neighborhoods of Springwells Village) Industrial = Marathon expansion, DWSD pumping station, MDOT Possible new bridge & more jobs Detroit Bikes, Detroit Bikes to Work Day, Cinco de Mayo bike ride w/ Clark Park Coalition Space frame to space frame project now called Raise the Bar is a pilot program to improve storefronts from Honorah to Inglis St and to enforce code
enforcement, faade improvement program, attracting customer to SW area. Home - active home associations and greenway planning. Work - business owner investments; planning for business district upgrades Neighborhood efforts to start restorative justice activities/conversations around conflict Neighborhood meetings on building community, addressing open space, gathering an oral history of the neighborhood & restorative justice to address inequality in the MEA. Community meetings for housing and jobs Strip mall on Lafayette btwn Rivard & Orleans - There are rumors that a grocery store may be opening. Many garden! Too many restaurants and bars opening in the Cass Corridor - Mario's, Traffic Jam - etc etc. North End Studios. A 9-story building that is now home to a music venue, gallery and artist studios and continues to grow. Re-use an old building in a warehouse district. Woodbridge Citizens District Council - need assistance/input of city planning requested many times, not forthcoming Jobs, with the location of shoe maker project. C.D.C. Need connection to city. CDC (need connection to city) Corktown Housing upcoming single family home development, Spaulding Court rehab, Detroit Youth Hostel The growth of new restaurants along Mich Ave which should make this a destination. Imagination Station. Michigan Central Station Preservation Society. Project: Access Detroit. Action by presence. Community watch (security patrol). Events. I just moved to the neighborhood, so I'm still figuring that out. Lots o' Greens community garden Detroit Hostel - in the process of obtain materials, designing facility, organizing volunteers. A lot of people putting a lot of effort into a great project. New Ctr. Park. Why is the New Ctr. Park always closed? The Americorps Urban Safety Program! (through the WSU Center for Urban Studies) Urban farming Public art, Urban gardening Jazz on John R. New or renovated high school. 2) Small businesses open regularly ie. Caf con Leche, markets, barber shops, bakeries. 3) Monthly recycling @ Clark. 4) Individual community gardens. All the toxic emissions of industry in 48217 Timebank - neighborhood work share. Clark Park youth activities, neighborhood stores & services. In the summer, children and parents in the neighborhood maintain the playing field at the old Tiger Stadium and use it frequently. This is a beautiful thing. In case you forgot already, this is at the CORNER of Michigan and Trumbull. Community gardens, Neighborhood safety patrol The Urban Ag movement happening all over the city! Summer festivals, Spirit Farm, Sunshine Community Preschool Corktown - Mexicantown Greenlink aka Southwest Det. Greenlink Cass Corridor small businesses are doing a great job of bringing people to the neighborhood, specifically Bureau of Urban Living & City Bird with their Third Thursday events. Public gardening. Multiple near Michigan Central Station The fact that there are not enough activities or projects Urban farms (Cochrane & Butternut for example, Spirit Farm on MLK). Block party on Cochrane St. Midtown/Living Cities Initiative Light Rail The light rail construction on Woodward SOON! Forest Arms Redevelopment. Our neighborhood refused to allow demolishon of an important yet blighted building. This attitude & leadership must pervade throughout entire city! Look at any Detroit Public Library Branch. Community garden, beautification/graffiti removal Community garden Need to be aware of future use of Chrysler school if DPS moves it. A new
concern wants to reopen the grocery store in Lafayette Park. Help them! Woodbridge Clean up. Trumbleplex. Steve Barman Show. Zoning issues in Arden Park. Arden Park~East Boston Live Midtown Access Arts Scripps Park Project in Woodbridge. In partnership with Woodbridge Neighborhood Development Corporation, Detroit Public Library (Douglas branch) and Forward Arts. Rezoning, commerical development A new buyer/investor for Mies shopping strip on Lafayette - planning a new grocery store. Local reclaiming of dilapidated park areas. For the 20 years that I've lived in Detroit, the street lights are out in certain neighborhood from time to time for nights at a time. As a homeowner & tax payer, this unacceptable. Imagination Station, Roosevelt Park Conservancy, Brother Nature, Friends of Spaulding Court, Corktown Community Kitchen Corktown Historic Home Tour. Pumpkin Carving, Games, Candy, Costume Parade @ Murphy Lot, Several 10k runs down Michigan Ave. YFC - Detroit is planning on building an urban training center on the southeast of Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Blvd Active & strong neighborhood association. Potentially great shopping district under used. The Little Egypt Publishing Company, owned by Missionary Tracey Elaine Blair, writes & publishes cinema, books, music & poetry for writters. Email: traceyblair.littleegypt@gmail.com Third Thursdays (takes place @ the shops & restaurants listed above), where shops stay open 5-9 & have special events or displays or sales. Lower East Side Action Plan (LEAP). Villages CDC Green taskforce. EJCC - East Jefferson Corridor Collaborative. Gleaners campus. Bellevue/Beaufait industrial corridor. Hope District plan. Tiger Stadium site redevelopment should include mixed use - offices, residential & recreational. This project would be much more viable is 10-15 acres of (vacant) parking lots were included with 9 acre former stadium property. Revitalization of Roosevelt Park. Multiple community activities @ Old Tiger Stadium. Cleanup of North Corktown. Many small buisness & DIY activity Selling of drugs in liquor stores & bars. Stripping of construction materials from frame homes. [Illegible] and Canfield The Matrix Center - Training and Community Services Black Family Development. Monthly meetings at the American Serbian Hall. I see across from St. Louis the King Church they have started working on land there at end it has been playground for childrens. I'm not sure what will be there now. NDNI Senior Living. The MAN Network. VODI. N. Cental Block Club Association Millbank Greenway, Van Dyke/8 M revitalization NCBCA - meeting held @ 19000 Conant on 3rd Tuesday 6-8pm. NCBCA mailing address 18600 Joseph Campau, Det. MI 48234. We have the North Central Block Club Association and we will be hosting a community information forum on March 19, 2011 at Chosen Generations Community Center 2328 E 7 Mi Detroit, MI 48234 from 10-4pm. Brenda Scott Academy (we need you). Making it best academy in the city of Detroit. Revitalizing (housing). Big Box development (old Redford High School). Becicham Community Development Project. Fight Blight campaign. Chandler Park Promise Coalition. Developing green gardens and Beckham School. BFDI Block Club organizing project in Osbourn neighborhood. Osbourn Neighborhood Alliance. Neighbor don't take care of their property Strong block clubs. Citizen patrols. The development of new low-income housing by HUD & our city called Emerald Springs (formerly Buffalo/Charles Terrace). A $1.5 million dollar grant for Lasky Recreation Center. The community's coming together.
On going radio patrol; September concert in the park (Hyde Park), monthly newsletter; active civic association: Greenacres-Woodward Civic Association Tree planting. Senior building Abandon homes Free 13th Annual 100 Honor Roll Student Celebration & Family Meg Fest, for mainly low income, single parents students. Over 3,500 people attend each year. Crime, vandalism, roberry and illegal drug activity known to police. CRIME New homes are being proposed. Forming block clubs morningside.org None (other than boarding up old K-Mart building) M.A.N. Patrol #1) Visions & plans for economic development are top priorities such as restoration of 1873 Village of Norris but city is oblivious or not interested or willing to work w/us to develop this project. We Care 7 Mile Van Dyke meeting - Last Thurs of month. St. John Connor Creek 7pm. Wilder Public Library 4 to 6 every Tuesday. Putting Youth First Committee Uprising Weed & Seed, Southwest Det. Development Collaborative, Congree of Communities- volunteer groups w/ sporadic (sometimes the [illegible]) support from city officials/department. Senior housing Your great block clubs - We Care and Van Dyke and Sherdwood Block Club Community Development Corp. and We Care are helping to improve neighborhoods. NONE Crime Monthly meeting (3rd Thurs) of Mohican-Regent Neighborhood Assoc. Picnics sponsored by Moh-Regent. My church (St. Raymod) - outreach program. U-SNAP-BAC housing rehab, Habitat for Humanity new housing, MorningSide community organizing, E. Warren biz development Kumon - Gardens Youth Art Program City Mission. City Covenant Church activities, Bible Study, family ngith all through the week. Reclaiming vacant dumping grounds for pocket parks. Reclaiming vacant lots for orchards. Reclaiming vacant lots for gardens. We have a community garden, we are very active in boarding up houses. Reaching out to the resident in the Smith home. We are looking to work with the city in tearing down abandon houses. There were houses being built, but it seems stalled. Community orginizations such as Youth Growing Brightmoor and Neighbors Building Brightmoor. Volinteers for clean up & beutification. We are putting gardens and cleaning out abandont houses. Forgotten Harvest Food Bank, Evangelism Outreach. City Mission Tutoring & Mentoring Program. GRDC. St. Vincent de Paul @ St. Christine. Community gardens & beautification projects. St. Christine Soup Kitchen & Pantry Youth programs & development, Youth gardens Poetry/Artist/Gardening D-Yes. Brighting Brightmoor. Youth employment & devel. Community organizing. Urban gardening. Blight remediation. Community events through N. Rosedale Park Civic Assn, Grandmost Rosedale Devel Corp, Youth Sports Events and Community Theatre. The Grandmont & Rosedale neighborhoods have a huge variety of neighborhood activities - everything from youth sports leagues to holiday parties, June Day celebrations, picnics and parades, clean-upss, tree plantings, farmers' market, community garden, housing & commercial development, home repair programs, block parties, neighborhood security programs. Butterfuly Garden. Youth have installed garden, made bench and will be putting art work in spring. Free Food Pantry Every 1st and 3rd Tuesday of Month 5:00 - 6:30 Free Clothes (gently used) Neighbors Building Brightmoor
I work for Wellpsring a Youth Development Organization which provides afterschool math and reading curriculm to kids in the neighborhood. Jobs Education Training Prgm, Mental Health Services, HUD housing project, United Way ELC, Skillman Early Childhood Initiative Care Providers Network business unity network D.Y.C. - Youth Group. Garden Growing. Kumon program for residents at Wellspring. Urban agriculture. Organizing neighborhood. 2. Working w/ NW Christian Church. 3. Began newsletter. The building of a new elem/middle school. The Brightmoor Community Center has many activities that my children have been involved in since they were young. Brightmoor Alliance Envisonmental Task Force. Brightmoor Youth Garden Community gardens, youth gardens, pocket parks, tree plantings, putting in walking trails. Urban gardening and diversity of people moving in. Look to Brightmoor as a model future community. A dynamic initiative group is already active. Brightmoor Youth Garden See above - Brightmoor Youth Garden. Teaches work ethic to youth, gives them positive interaction, sense of pride in selves and community. Real entrepreneurship for youth - summer income that is not dependent on government funding. Mobile Food Pantry - sponsored by Brightmoor Pastor's Alliance My neighborhood is well organized with many activities. I appreciate shopping at Metro Foodland. Farm lane. MANY community gardens & new pocket parks. Lots of urban, community & market gardens. Eliza Howell Nature Trail. Children - solidarity - earth tree dome. Mushroom house. Native species plot. Youth garden. Chalforte farm lane. New school being built to replace three being closed. Farming and new uses for vacant land. New LIGTC houses that are supporting existing housing. Christ the King Service Corps has formed a volunteer community Farmer's Market @ Bushnell Church GRDC is active office. We have a sense of community. We know our neighbors and look out for each other. City Mission - City Mission Academy mentoring & tutoring. City Covenant Church started 7/18/10 Thriving tutoring/mentoring programs and K-6 City Mission Academy. City-Mission is expanding. Church Renovation Project Voices for Earth Justice is working to establish a community garden in Brightmoor. We are actively looking for property to buy cheaply. We want to partner with churches & outreach programs. Gardens, seting up bee hives for honey, fixing abodon houses or tearing them down that can't be fixed. My garden. Grandmont Rosedale Security/Crime Reporting continues reporting crime in our neighborhoods. Living between 2 homes that are being refurbished (20466, 20490 Birwood, 48221). What will become of my home 20476 Birwood, 48221 Stop strip bars. 2. Dumping in the area. 3. St. Martins Neighborhood safety meeting, 4th Thursday or the month @ the North Rosedale Park Community House, next mtg. Feb 24 2011 @ 6 pm. NRP Block Club mtg; 1st Tuesday of the month @ GRDC. Park Players play of Hairspray March 18,19, 20 & additional days at the North Rosedale Community House. NA Vacant buildings located next to the church. This property is not safe for children. Comercial property that has violations and need to be demolished. Southwest Detroit Time Bank - look it up on web Relationship building. Potluck dinners. I love to walk the neighborhood to experience the developments in the hood and the friendliness of the city. Farmers' market weekly May - Oct; community garden; largest Little League in state of Michigan; Rosedale Recycles (all volunteer recycling organization); community theater by Park Players; renovation and resale of foreclosed homes by GRDC. Farmer's Market - open on Thurs. spring through fall. Rosedale Recycles.
Radio patrol sponsored by neighborhood association. Community garden at Bushnell Church. Rosedale Recycles - Christ the King parking lot. Grandmont/Rosedale Community Garden - Bushnell Chuch. GRDC activities/RPIA activities/NRPCA activities. Radio patrols. See comments from [name removed] GRDC - community stabilization plan W.O.W. Warriors on Wheels meets the 1st Monday of each month @ Fellowship Chapel 81st Annual June day Parade Bretton Drive from Grand River to Grand River, June 11th. Home & Garden Tour in October. Community Theatre in March & November. None that I am aware of. None North Rosedale Park sponsors sports leagues (softball/soccer); June Day festival & parade; community theatre; haunted house; garden/home tour; Easter egg hunt; Christmas breakfast; community newsletter; active Block Captain group; Grandmont Rosedale Dev Corp; tree planting; girl/boy scouts; snow removal/some security (extra & from residents for those) Minor home repair Vacant property campaign I'm not aware of any projects currently. Painting of murals Brightmoor Community Gardens Community gardens (Brightmoor) Detroit Aero Modelers flying at Alex Jefferson field at Rouge Park. D-Town Farm in Rouge Park. Buffalo Soldiers Heritage Center in Rouge Park. Michigan Bike Assoc. mountain bike trails in Rouge Park. Elite Archery Club and tournaments at Archery Range in Rouge Park. Hiking trails in Rouge Park. Restored Nature prairie in Rouge Park. Neighbors, Neighborhood organizations & park user groups working together to improve the park (Rouge Park). Warrendale neighborhood, once VERY stable now losing residents & property declining. This is a critical point in time to help stablize it. Public Art Park clean-ups - tree cutting. Tire removal/Vacant property board ups. Citizen's district council meetings. Strong neighborhood, looking out for one another, cutting grass & shoveling snow. Penrose Art House, Emmanual Center and Park, Dakota Inn/Ratskeller - Great local restaurant/food. Fireweed Universe City. Oasis of Hope Church. ACC Youth Center. Plans to create special assessment district (SAD) in our area. Malvern Hill Neighborhood Assn. Security patrol, annual neighborhood gathering picnic, neighborhood meetings Wayne State Farmer's Market Rosedale Recycles. GRDC projects. Rosedale Recycles. Northwest Detroit Farmers Market. Joy/Southfield CDC. Farmers Market: Joy/Artesian: starting in May Apart from the frequent car thefts? Some community gardening and lots of TALK but not real activity this visible. Numerous, public improvements (bridge work), faade improvements, home renovation Illegal dumping St. Stephen AME Church. 1. Provide college prep program for Detroit area students. 2. Community & Safet Basketball Program No We have a great neighborhood association, annual neighborhood clean up. None that I'm aware of. None I know of We have a community organization WACO. We do Motor City makeover, clean up, do food baskets. WACO meeting once a month on Thursday. Boys & Girls Club for Illegal auto repair business. Illegal dumping. Role of Van Dyke in the Vilages communiities (a n/s thoroughfare, a residential street w/commercial (intersections, hubs) Annual fundraiser for student scholarship Radio patrol & neighbors watching neighbors
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. National Light Out 2011 Home Preservation Fair - Saturday, April 16, 2011 Sacred Heart Major Seminary Rehab of Michigan Bell Building, LCFS housing. Develop Oakman Place apts. Probation office - traffic congestion, people walking the street Houses being stripped and burned. There are a lot of new businesses and entrepreneurs bringing great & new revenue to Corktown. St. Frances Cabrini Clinic. Most Holy Trinity Clothes Closet. Food Shelf. 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 oneon-one help. Community garden Look at our website! www.historicbostonedison.org Gangs of youth threatening the older people as they walk or shop. There is a new jazz bar in the old Rumors on the River space. They seem like they could use some attention, help & patronage. Vacant homes that are being vandalized. Safety zone stations. W.A.R.D. community service worker program, alley clean up, snow shoveling 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. Community gardens. Acknowledge the community groups in each cluster. All gas stations are selling 'loosies'. Used cars being sold - not a car lot. Oils, candles being sold ON THE SIDEWALK. Roosevelt Park development project (by the train station. Revelopment of commerical building at Agnes and Van Dyke. 2) New use for Riverview Hospital. Park rehab and beautification 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. I am trying to find out myself. Marathon Gas Station allows panhandlers to see marijuana Cooperative housing development, home board ups, home rehab, provide service or access to services to community. Rehab of homes Caichins Community Organization Rebuild Detroit: One Household at a Time; Huron Heights Initiative New building Women & Men of Vision. Computer literacy. Finally some of the derilict homes are being torn down. The neighhood organization None. We should have more activities and recreation centers back. None. Senior Food Pantry, Aim High youth group, Bound Together Detroit Afterschool, Mt. Elliot Makerspace (MIT of Boston), urban farming, Messiah housing, C.U.F.S. Church of the Messiah, Senior Food Pantry, Aim High youth group, Bound Together afterschool urban garden, Messiah housing, MIT Maker Space, C.U.F.S. Great neighborhood organization (EEV). More green business's & homes. The block of Ashland 48215 we (speaking neighbors) plan to clean our area helping one another listen None. No improvements in 10 years I have seen Jefferson Chalmers Jazz Festival. Neighborhood efforts to care for parks - cut trees, etc. LEAP Project. Gratiot Woods (Detroit Catholic Pastoral Alliance) Lower Eastside Action Plan The new school Marcus Garvey
Lower Eastside Action Plan (LEAP). GREEN Task Force (greenways plan). East Jefferson Corridor Collaborative (EJCC) Greenway Project along Conner towards the riverfront. Not sure of any. Leap, Greenway Maheras Gentry Park, Conner Creek Gateway U of DM willing to help with home purchases for employees in the neighborhood. Earthworks is developing a new green house project & several community gardens. MEBCA We are keep up our home and cut vacant lots. Watching vacant house's. Mr. Bobb closed an at school in this neighborhood. Senior housing Transitional housing programs for women, veterans grant and per diem programs and affordable health care, and currently working on a project to heal mental illness and affordable housing to anyone/citizen. I love that the JEBA decorated all of the businesses on Jefferson in its territory and seems to be encouraging business development thru its blight abatement & public safety initiatives. On-going restoration of homes. IVA board members are concerned about the traffic safety, traffic volume, and street/alley lighting - need responses. Green alley. Morningside Community Organization & U Swap Bac are both amazing organizations! Clark Park Coalition, West Grand Blvd Block Club Strong, commited association/board. Activities related to neighborhood improvement and community pride. I live near East English Village called Morningside. I understand there will be a project in which police officers are volunteering to move. Hannan House greening initiative for seniors Genesis Hope - abandon housing/spaces survey Barry Subdivision is: making sure vacant housees are properly secured. Moving vacant parcels & maintaining as we can. Barry Subdivision is attempting to make banks/woners owning forclosed houses shutter them in a fashion that is less conspicuous (ie sensitivity to spectre of foreclosure in the neighborhood.) Not-a-thing. Georgia St. Community Collective Clark Park activities. Western H.S. Many others. Community organizing through smaller models of Detroit SOUP. I'm not aware. Detroit would be a greater Detroit and destination location if we would prioritice the opportunities that the airport could be: At least make it the best general aviation facility in this area. Calimera Park; DLRC Forgotten Harvest; Conner Creek, St John Community Center Senior, Wish-Egan Park; Neoroma Academy We Care Housing etc Group Getting to know our neighbors and community Housing rehab; community gardening Not sure of any. None. It would be wonderful to reinstitute the block clubs. Assistance is needed. If there are activities, better communication is needed. Brenda Scott and Osborn schools are in community, no information is sent in my community about functions or support. Moross Greenway Project NITC/DRIC Alternatives for Girls/Chadsey Condon - Advocates for Youth and Families Slam and Jam - Jam session & Open Mic, every 1st & 3rd Friday, 6-8 pm, Caf Con Leche Timebanks - Corktown/Hubbard Farms & Chadsey Condon. BCI is hosting a TimeBank thats being created in the Chadsey/Condon neighborhood. The idea is helpnig create a neighborhood of people helping one another and sharing services & skills (personal & work areas) Vibrant mix of different ethnic groups, strong commercial strips, strong community cohension, potential for economic development brought on by construction of second bridge built by US/Canada (not Maroun) and rail/freight centers. Very active community e-mail listserv. Need city clean up the city of Detroit Blightness is Excessive!!
A concise cencus of the area to determine extent of changes in last 5 years and work to deal with the new problems. The new playground structure at the Crowell Center. Youth & Musical Activities On going meeting with the police Dept, for bussiness Don't know. Community Policing -: Hubbard Farms. Groups fixing up Clark Park and Roosevelt Park. Internet/and phone connections between neighbors. Cornerstone Village, the neighborhood organization is trying hard to get people involved. Some of us report abandoned vehicles, have cleaned up some houses and want to be included in the tearing down homes that have been abandoned for many many years, especially on Neff rd. None. list serve to help deal with the crime, Public safety is why we have to move out of city since we now have a baby. Attracting new residents while at the same time keeping current residents. Corktown seems to be doing a good job of this The Lower East Side Action Plan (LEAP) Not much: Bolls Family Center, The Metro Shop - The one medium size quality boutique in Downtown Detroit in the First Nat'l Bg, Need more high-end Recreation Facilities, Need more retail outlets in town - Target, T.J. Maxx, Dollar Store. Central United Methodist Church is growing, one of the few churches growing in the city The most pressing issue I have with transit is the time it takes to get to work. I put down bus stop safety because time was not a choice and a bunch of kids got shot at my bus stop a year plus ago (Warren/Southfield). none. I think you know what's going on in Midtown. Lots of rumors--Whole Foods, a tea house, two coffee shops, several multifamily mixed use real estate developments, Live Midtown, Noel Night, the TrumbullPlex anarchist zine library, the Woodward light rail, the DSO strike, the new Slow's to Go, Recycling Bike Messengers, Green Geothermal Lofts on Canfield, the Green Garage, a new sausage factory, new home for Avalon, The Union, several commercial renovations on Cass, Detroit Brunch, Drag Bingo at 3rd Street Bar and much much more. The Changing'the'Culture friends Association will launch the first official volunteer community work-force training team designed to stabilize, revitalize, and build what we call new self-sustaining communities of the future, with emphasis on the training of our youth, young adults, and city residents in jobs in great demand right in our neighborhood and community. These efforts are comprehensive and ongoing with a goal of creating a new community workforce. To help relieve the strain and burden of city service work, and to suppliment a lack of continuous service needed to build new self-sustaining communities of the future in Detroit. But with concrete plans of action and concise solutions, concepts, and enterprises, as well as credible ideas for promoting and developing new self-sustaining neighborhoods and communities through out Detroit. Projects and activities will be announced starting in April 2011. Home invasions, illegal dumping, etc. I'm not aware of any positive initiatives occuring in my neighborhood other than having good neighbors who look out for each other. I am sure there are some, however I am not currently privy to them. I would like to get involved in assisting with them as well. None that I know of I have thought about doing one on my own constantly I want to revamp the alley ways in the area aswell as give the vacant home a nice lawn cutting once in a while which last summer I did on occasion until my lawn mower broke. Get Fresh Detroit -- fresh and healthy prepared food distribution in convenient stores throughout the city. Any person or organization who is trying to open a small business or revamp a vacant building.
REGISTRATION AND COMMENT SHEET RESPONSES | Detroit Works Project | January 27 March 10, 2011
Question 3: What do you hope the Detroit Works Project will do for your neighborhood? (535 responses)
Contribute to sustaining quality of neighborhoods, elimination of blight, work with home owner and mortgage companies to keep people in their home, develop youth vocational programs to assist residential repairs andelderly with property maintainence. I'd like to see some businesses brought not only to neighborhoods, but into the city in general. Jobs, jobs, jobs should be the number one priority. Clean streets, less crime, more police presents, improve city service Stabilize and preserve Help stabilize neighborhoods with security, businesses, schools. Need to have businessess parks portray an image of a safe/clean place people will want to live. Better Zoning and code enforcement on Livernois from 6-8 Mile Streamline providing of city services Bike lanes, Palmer Park Renovation, Livernois median work, other recreation and sports, financial incentives for assist w/ buying of vacant homes Increase residential density and commercial activity while preserving pocket parks and community farm/garden."Trees are the lungs of the city"/ Safer, greener, healthier neighborhood for my kids Help improve safety and security so as to make it possible to attract new residents and create positive actions to inspire youth. Eliminate blight and disinvestment along commercial districts and major streets. Support small businesses with grants to get to the next level As older residents leave our beautiful homes will be purchased by diverse families. 2. Provide current services much better, the lighting, street cleaning, security (police presence). Provide for a safer, more solidified neighborhood with accessible businesses and service other than just Beauty Salons and store front check cashers. 2. Fill in vacant businesses along 6 mile. Commercial area where people can work Convert Livernois to solar power, assist installing a wind turbine@ Windmill Farmers Market to generate power for businesses. Encourage mixed use housing (above businesses) and low income housingto fill in the vacant areas. Encourage walkable Livernois business area. O = seniors, families, students Help build concensus on future plans for the neighborhood in and around the community. Build more resident and institutional environment For all neighborhoods, DWP can provide safe, open, green community reflective of the residents/area, cultural interests, coordinated and viable public financial, educational, medical, and commercial institutions, Accessible public/safe reliable transportation Improve safety and lighting in our area and along Livernois. 2. To provide citizens with information regarding what is possible in this city. 3. Be a catalyst for a new direction for this city. Maintain the beauty of our community. Limit liquor stores, beauty supply stores, increase viable businesses, i.e. major chain grocerys Target our neighborhoods as an area for stabilization and development Increase public safety, Loan homeowners money to repair their homes Improve safety and services. Develop green spaces like playgrounds and gardens. Develop a youth program at Palmer Park. Nothing - Just put people to work and stop the wholesale destruction of existing businesses. Help residents to maintain/upkeep the area/neighborhood. Improve city services Provide security, upgrade lighting, enforce building codes, ordinances. Recognize it is a neighborhood for investment Help the University District become more active and identifiable -looking for increase in people and college students walking Livernois like in Midtown/WSU area. -Why can't this area be developed to continue to attract business & college talent? Cause proper and correct water bills to generate, Currently water bills which are far higher that the correct amount. The water department routinely rejects legitimate appeals. Provide high quality public education options for all, including charter schools Stabilize community by starting with education and recreation for youth, transportation to commercial/business/service. Way to get places in safe, reliable time. Find/foster services to save roofs on houses for residents who need help. Make it more like the businesses on Woodward (Ferndale, Berkley) Revitalize it and make it as strong as it was when we moved here 35 years ago Recgonize @ great place to live - 48 year old resident If needed by the family, train and prepare them to take care of their homes and property before moving him
Identify key areas for improvement and marshall city/local/non profit resources to address those areas of improvement Help our organization improve eye appeal in our neighborhood, cleaning up illegal dumping, clearing overgrowth of bushes, grass and overgrowth of vacant lots What area's in the city are targeted or are going to be targeted in the near future to have residents relocated To make my neighborhood better. I believe I have a great neighborhood but for people that may need a little more help get the help they need. Continue to provide adequate, efficient, and effective city services. The fires of last year (2010) on Santa Rosa & Monica Streets (Margareta-Clarita) showed how vulnerable we can be. Will the Detroit Works Project restore such needed outlets as the now closed Neighborhood City Halls? Improve it. There are a lot of empty homes in my neighborhood and empty buildings on Fenkell St. Aggresively demolish blighted structures like derelict apartment buildings, houses, warehouses, etc. We need expanded green space - well-maintained park-lands, safe & secure. Convert vacant lots into reforested areas and parks with bike paths, Turn vacant schools like Winterhalter into vocational learning centers. In fill vacant homes Better city services Figure out a way to take care of the median on Livernois. Get rid of the known crooks who run the storefronts on Livernois Improve it. Remove abandoned homes. Stop the dumping in my neighborhood. Recycle the materials from demolished buildings - there is such a huge amount of housing stock - mostly beautiful buildings - that it would be stupid not to save at least the material from most of them, for rehab on the rest Fix the lighting and sewage The same as for all neighborhoods - more security, enhanced lighting, recycling centers (or trash pickup for recyclables) Also - the recognition that many neighborhoods are NORCs - Naturally Occuring Retirement Communities I wish they could close the pawn shop and motel. All kinds of people be in the area on my block. There is a vacant building has been there over 25 years empty. Someone is living in a vacant house. SQUATTERS. Someone also put a car on fire. Take down abandon homes. Make it easy to find out who owns homes and lots to buy and renovate. Get better police presence. Lots of kids go to Greenfied Union school, and they needs a safe neighborhood to live and play. The builder wants to build more homes for families and the city could assist him in doing so. More open space and garndens for good healthy food. Boost city/neighborhood involvement by creating places youth can go, talk to Mayor Bing about creating jobs, increase safety in the neighborhoods Link it with surrounding neighborhoods Provide home repair dollars to rehab vacant houses and services for first time home buyers, also senior services Align the resources of community, business, faith, and education Change Livernois to include housing and parking, bicycle paths, benches Maintain and enhance esp. Livernois Corridor, public lighting and security Need more commercial businesses on Woodward/Grand Blvd. Landscaping on Oakland. Assist w/ reducing crime, assist w/ improving Livernois and Woodward Corridors (Blight removal, business attraction, etc) Repair houses in neighborhood Help us in pulling together all of the initiatives that the community have and put them together to create a framework for our great city Give neighborhood resources to employ residents to demolish buildings, garden and build new homes. Help maintain abandoned house. Help it to remain a truly viable neighborhood and community Keep our housing stock/housing values stable. Revitalize the Livernois retail corridor (Lodge Fwy to 8 Mile), better maintainence of Palmer Park Revitalize the business district, halt urban blight and renovate vacant homes Bring in better transportation & jobs. Destinations (sp) Beautiful, stabilize Woodward from 6 to 8 Mile I hope the project will improve the quality of life, densification, as well as provide blight control. Overall I hope the city will not be removing people from any neighborhood or home. Allow residents to participate in envisioning a range of housing options, while improving public safety: lighting, park security We need more cafes and entertainment
Bring surrounding neighborhoods together with sustainable values. It is up to me and other students and teachers to fight for my neighborhood because no one else is. (successfully) My neighborhood is fine. Please put your time, $ & efforts into those neighborhoods of deep devastation Help make 7 Mile/Livernois a vibrant shopping area again, find ways to encourage home ownership to prevent blight, develop Palmer Park as a true community asset, find a use for the State Fair grounds land More people in the neighborhood help people Rebuilt Use Detroiters to clean up the neighborhoods, use city funds for sections other than downtown, Midtown and the Medical center because we pay taxes also Help us get this underway. Must be Chicago school of Landscape. Natural native plant material. Tear down blighted buildings, create programs and activities for kids, put up basketball courts in the vacant lots More commercial, no more car related businesses or fast or corny restaurants Help to keep it the way it is Develop the Avenue of Fashion on Livernois, develop the area with family restaurants such as Fridays, Red Lobster, Applebees. Lots of people. Clean and proud Recognize and empower local community groups working for neighborhood specific issues Support family and community gardens, bring a grocery store with organic produce, help people from facing foreclosure and utilitiy shut offs Relocate Close down your operation. Hopefully my neighborhood will decide to leave Detroit w/all that debt and become our own village/township. Small business, a major supermarket Put money back into the community so that it can look like a viable, sustainable community. My hope at this time is none (we thinks we are left out). I care MORE what DWP does for the city. Continue supporting the great organizations we have. Allow us to have a voice, representation, and participation in decizition making. Nothing Support immigration to Detroit. Protect undocumented workers. Strengthen and improve the mental and physical state of our future leaders our children and their education is were our power lyes. Improve abadondeds. Bring back the hwy. park, recreation and city recreation, for the children to have sports progrem and [illegible] in the hood for child. I hope that all the organizations of S.W. Detroit with work better together. Demolish homes that cannot be restored. Give better services to the 48217 area. Open up business opportunities for small businesses within the 48217 area. Increased public safety. Better transportation. Better access to resources. Incentives for businesses to open along corridors like Vernor - improvements, incentives to increase residency of foreclosures, vancancies. Improve apts. Plans for streetscape improvements on West Vernor from west city limits to Michigan Ave on East. Raise the awareness and motivation of every day residents in the neighborhood. I hope the Detroit Works Project will work with stakeholders and residents on plans that have already been created. Also, I hope the project is holistic in approach. Clean the trash including abandoned & burned out houses & buildings. Help my neighbors, who are living in foreclosed homes with no utilities, to lift themselves out of poverty. Code & law enforcement for property owners, esp. absentee landlords. Clean the neighborhood.
Strengthen our neighborhood stability with a stronger neighborhood shopping center - especially the grocery store! We have a middle/upper middle class neighborhood who would support a Whole Foods quality store - instead most shop @ Wellborn & other suburban grocery stores because ours is so poor. Coordinate their work with DPS and charter school strategies/investments. More street sweeping? Fixing pot holes in streets. Clean up and more police. (Leave it alone,) I, would like to see infill housing to bring community back. Bring awarenes to the city government about the special needs in our communities. Bring it back to life! Restore old buildings, bring in businesses and families! Bring a lot of events that draw peole from other locations in Michigan. Help clean it up. Make it more safe. Public safety ie. Community count. * CBAS re: DRIC & DIFT. Help strengthen neighborhoods where there is density & investment. Recruit using count. *Help with refinancing/housing values artificially held low - hard to refinance. *Support retail activities Remove blight; replace with new housing. Strengthen schools. Provide more walking/parks. Connect the riverwalkk to us! Understand the unique problems associated with heavy industry and transportation in our community and help our community with better planning and investments for a better quality of life. Recognize it, along with other historical neighborhoods, as ecomic & social foundations in the future of the city. Capitalize on southwest Detroit strength. I hope this program will help completely change citizen outlook on our city. Hope it will "streamline" city by installing programs to ensure public safety and enforce blight laws now on the books. "Install" streetlight operation Michigan Ave to Fort St. That we could break away and become a township. Increase city services, grow our community and reduce the industrial growth that is forcing people out. Bring to light the need to stabilize the communities that were good but who have been damaged by foreclosures - vacant house -> squatters -> no street lights -> fires -> blight -> vacant lots Improve city services in SW Detroit - esp street lights and demolition of burned and abandoned buildings. Enforce blight ordinances. Designate Southwest Detroit as a growth area where appropriate resources are designated; encourage immigration & entreprenuerialism; improve parks (Riverside extension & other smaller pocket parks) & greenways (Vernor & others) & bike lanes; improve DDOT service; extend Riverwalk west to Ft. Wayne. Help improve city services, stablize neighborhoods. Back a communtiy benefits coaltion. Get rid of crime, lower taxes. Help it become a better place to live & work. Continue to help our residents build the community up and continue to help us beautify it. Make it a showplace. Make it a place to visit for out-of-towners, and a refuge for residents. Move us out! Out of the City of Detroit! Don't tear down homes until you give people who are working a chance to buy them for $50.00 or give them the home if they can prove how they can pay the tax; so you will keep the tax dollars in the city. Make it clean, safe and livable. Get rid of the poisons that surrounds us (industrial facilities). Restore homes that can be restored. What happened to Nuisance Abatement? There should not be any homeless people with all the abandoned properties. That the empty buildings be knocked down or like the 3rd police precinct Vernor & 20th & the bldg on Vernor & St. Anne. Get rid of or rehabilitate abandoned houses and make available to stable families, preferably make a way for these families to buy the homes. Create a sense of community, educating individuals about taking pride in the the neighborhood. Bringing recreational activities back to neighborhoods. Accessibility to amenties. Create a safe place for people to walk, ride bikes and just enjoy being outside without being targeted for theft or other crimes. Demolish dangerous structures. Prioritize residential development, create coherent and actionable vacant land strategy. Clean up yards and houses to be demolished
Improve safety (from loose dogs & from crime; also create traffic-calming alterations to neighborhood intersections; resolve chronic crime issues at identified criminal enterprises) Improve the neighborhood & provide the necessary essential city services. Provide city resources, stability, safety and improve the quality of life. Rearrange & improve - more stores - e.g. grocery (Kroger, etc.) A greater sense of community and accountability for not only our own property, but our neighbors and community in general. Promote street life & public health. Encourge "Share the Road" between motorists and cyclists - so many careless drivers, plenty of work to be done educating cyclists. Promote bike laws & facilities to park bikes in urban district locations. To improve quality of life though quality education, public safety and quality city services. Strengthen/stable neighborhoods; focus investments; improve service delivery Facilitate the reopening the Y on Clark - this is a jewel that is deteriating and needs to be rescued!! Develop plans for reusing the schools that have been closed/will be closed for community use. Create a more diverse/inclusive community. Create a more diverse & inclusive community Stop giving us the run around we can help. Provide jobs for our city you need to build and keep find ways to contact CDC's Leaders. Encourage small business to locate in the above strip mall; implode the abandoned Wayne State U. School of Pharmacy on Rivard nr. Antietam. It's an eye sore - needs to be secured. Talk w/ residents to understand [illegible]as assists and help to build those specific things. Help to keep rent and property prices affordable. Make the landlords keep up their properties. We really need to shut down the incinerator. It will ruin everyone's health. The incineration is not a form of recycling. More transit. More urban amenities. More public services. Higher density as a goal. Allow old neighbors & new neighbors to buy land and start new construction and businesses easier than ever. Tear down abandoned factories or provide motivation for tenants & developers to move in. Bring in quality supermarkets, within neighborhood, Need retail, recreation & unique shops & services. Need recycling throughout city - Improve safety & services - Quality education for youth, increase in graduation rate - Elimination of blight Help our community re-build itself and allow community people have a opportunity to help in this process. I hope a decision is soon as to what will become of our community. Help! To grow! Help are neighborhood help are community. Confirm that North Corktown will still be provided city services With open land in North Corktown develop new homes for young and old alike to create the neighborhoods so needed. Help the people that would like to make positive change. Make it easier and be on their side. Work with them, not against them. I hope the Detroit Works Project could increase the efficiency of the government functions ex. The computer systems have been down many times in different gov. departments. Cut down on the costs in the SOS for Driving needs. Provide access to better public transportation, healthy food, jobs and health care. Light rail or public transport down Woodward. Businesses along Woodward. Tear down abandoned houses/apartment buildings. Street lights/safety/stabilization. Continue to build a healthy habitat for humans. Reenforce efforts by my neighbors. Improve transit and prioritize bikes. Repave my street; regain ownership or public spaces and make sure it says public (currently parcels functioning as public streets are owned by Henry Ford Medical); get rid of the vacant bldgs by incentivizing active use/rehab; densify and promote mixed use buildings so that basic services aren't far away! Get rid of blight. Help board up or demolish vacant housing that can't be rehabilitated. Not move me Improve education and youth engagement Encourage infill development in the Northend
Improve K-12 education. Improve city parks. Bring new residents, businesses in. Bike lanes/non-motorized transportation plan implemented. Reduce truck traffic/pollution from Ambassador Bridge/SW Industry. Invest in historical structure renovation. Stimulate community engagement. Make safer neighborhoods - lights, eliminate blight, clean streets, etc. Develop community resources - library, park, etc. Renew infrastructure. Stop the abuse from ICE (immigration). Address pollution in 48217 and the incinerator. Preserve the culture & tap on people's skills. Improve infrastructure. Get rid of blight. Incorporate recycling in the city. Continue to strengthen SW Detroit by teaming up with what is already happening & working rather than working against each other. Hopefully my neighborhood will be connected to the city and greater region via reliable, multi-modal transportation; not just private automobiles. Improve public transportation: Light rail. Better access/frequency of buses. Improve public transit (light rail that extends PAST 6 mile!!) Improve mixed use development to create better neighborhood density. In my EEV neighborhood I hope it stabalizes it. In my cornerstore neighbor where I owe a house I'd love to see it become an eco-village. In Corktown were I work, safety is an issue for all! Provide a plan (good, bad or ugly) that we can plan around. We are in limbo right now. We need honesty, not manipulation. Be honest if even very unpopular. not sure I hope the Detroit Works Project will increase density, create useable public open space, and improve pedestrian safety in Midtown. Increase accessibility to Midtown/Downtown via improved walkability/bikeability and transit connections. Long term - plant some forests - helps air pollution. Provides some trees to be planted by residents and between sidewalk & streets. These trees can be harvested in the future. Find a way to ensure diversity of representation at quasi-government meetings (eg Residents District Council, Corktown emergency mtgs, etc). Find a way to control citizens patrol - racism, elitism are big problems w/o a way to "fix" within the group. Ageism as well - where are youth in this? The bulk of the work will fall to them. To bridge problems in our neighborhood to move as a community. Announce tht we won't be eliminated - although I do support downsizing the city. Please announce the neighborhoods soon - people are holding off buying property until they hear the decisions. Provide city-wide context for choice - where to act & where not to act. Create greater stability. Reduce crime, in particular, drug dealing. Keep the neighborhoods clean and respectable. Clean up the alleys, repair & maintain street lights, maintain green spaces, increase police presence. Bring density, retail, transit options, greenways Focus on Detroit. Most important is education for all residents to know what/who can help. Focus on transportation & greening of Detroit & small businesses. Find use for vacant property, clean up illegal dumping Preserve it, allow for the community to grow without demolishing the character. Get rid of the pre-sale inspection requirement. This is an onerous requirement. The departing homeowner will do the cheapest thing possible to pass, leaving the new homeowner completely unprotected from shoddy work!! Better public transit options - ie street cars added into the mix along with light rail and buses. Create open and public space for the residents. Create public transportation that is cheap and reliable. More grocery stores open later, any business that is open late! Bring more resources Increase investment in the warehouse district (between Rivard & Iron Streets, south of Jefferson), the neighborhood I work in during the summer. The character of this neighborhood - industrial, narrow streets, etc, should be capitalized upon. Retain historic buildings. Help further establish dense and diverse urban fabrics. Improve communication between residents, and between city and residents. Very little - I like it, just the way it is, but you can see the question below's answer. Demolish all vacant & open to trespass between I-94, I-75-Highland Park and Hamtrack city limits, and M-10.
Renovate 59 & 69 Seward @ Woodward New Center An increase in population and development, especially on the east side of Woodward (in the New Center). Improve public safety & lighting. Recycling in the neighborhood. Better police patrol/presence. Better up keep of the parks - less garbage. Bike lanes down Jefferson &/or Lafayette. Expansion of Dequindre Cut. Demolition of abandoned buildings. Bring in permanent residents in compliment to the student residents (temporary). Bring mass transit. More convieniences ie grocery stores (quality), business open Demolish abandoned buildings. Encourage new business to the best of its ability - Improve infrastructure Create free & easy internet for all. Encourage people to move to Corktown and increase population density. Do the above without compromising the urban agriculture in the area and the integrity of the neighborhood. Help people to live and work in their own city. Keep it! Allow farming, improve lighting. Remove blight & demolish homes. Assist us in our project. Strengthen our relationship with the city. Stronger community policing. Solidify home values. Improvements for the Dept. of Housing, Education & Labor. Dept. of Transportation, Health Care Continue to support increasing density in both residetns and entrepreneurial efforts, ensure more effective services to areas where density exists, facilitate the "reinvention" of vacant buildings in the neighborhood. I think if DWP can figure out a way to 1) make sure that absentee landlords, esp. mass property owners, keep their properties up to code. 2) keep services (street cleaning, road repair, lighting, preventing illegal dumping, etc.) working like clockwork. 3) don't know if this is part of DWP's scope, but to make sure that projects w/ city funding or public financing actually do employ Detroit residents. 4) put in place higher standards for development: to highest energy codes, reuse materials, deconstruction, low-impact development, local sourcing, etc. Help bring in investment for a variety of housing options - particularly 2-6 unit structures as "in-fill" on vacant lots in otherwise viable residential streets. 2) New businesses. 3) New public school. Continue to help it strenthen. I have absolutely no problem if you give others incentives to move to our community: Michigan Ave, especially from 6th to Roosevelt Park is ripe for commercial development if guided w/proper economic incentives. Combat the blight. Create walkable neighborhoods. Attract young people between ages of 25-38 to move into our neighborhood. Attract wholesome businesses to community that will employee people of all ages & young adults. Be fair in just compensation. Improve neighbors respect and pride. Remove abandon homes. 2. Demand that home owner keep up their property. 3. Fill rat holes. Make it look good. Bring communties center for activities for senior & kids. Hoping that Det. Works can figure out what to do about all of vacant home. Maybe build more apartments or lofts in area in the place of homes & make afordalbe. Hope to rebuild Detroit. Tear down abundant houses. Support our united efforts in communtiy transformation. Keep the public libraries open. Keep street lights on, some areas too dark. Cleaner & safer. Job access would help young people in the neighborhood schools need to be in walking distance. Lipke Park open full time! To keep our library open! I would like the CAC to reopen at the E. Seven Mile location. I would like to see the bulk pick up to be every month for a clean community & street plowed for snow. Step up city service's, lights. Provide incentives (tax, downpaymt asst) for. Provide city resources to Grandmont Rosedale. Clarify City of Detroit's intention for a neighborhood that has been excluded from designated target areas for investment. Stabalize it and get rid of blight. Maintain the footprint and style of the O.W.E. neighborhood. Cadieux & Harper.
Affirm the importance of Osbourn neighborhood, partner with residents, and help encourage new residents in new vacant properties. Cleaness, what they going to do with home's no one live in. Help attract working people. Take our concerns seriously and being to make changes, or help us to make the changes. Help us as a community make my neighborhood the place everyone wants to live. Improve quality of life. Remove dead/diseased trees. Replace knocked street lights & street signs. Make our street more safe. Crime & abandon homes; More police; Better supermarkets; Get rid of abandon cars. Shopping mall. Upkeep of their property. Illegal dumping business to take of their business. Help better children programs, more security for our business, churches, cars, etc. Shut down stores, gas stations, barber shops selling drugs. Revitalize the neighborhood back to the way it was at least 15 yrs ago. Demolish blight properties. Educating people to have pride in their neighborhood. Help reduce crime. Increase police presency. Reduce crime. Increase property value. Save the children (crime, poverty, unemployment). Make it safer, and rehab vacant houses. Help up carry out our plans for economic revitalization and improvsing our quality of life. Bring jobs to the youth of the city. Work diligently to continue giving them opportunity. Possibly appoint a youth zar to make decisions for their fellow youth. I hope Detroit Works Project would help fixing the community. For example, take part in youth activities. If possible, create more recreation centers. I hope that this project restores hope within the residents of the city as well as the outlying cities and that that hope pushes action to improve the city - as well as keep residents here. Demolish buildings, vacant homes, vacant businesses Safer & cleaner w/ more shopping. City departments responding timely to resident concerns. Enforcement of city codes - litter, dumping, noise, etc. I would like more retail shopping in the area. I would also like more green space. Dog park, bike trail, etc. I would also like more mixed housing. My area has a lot of seniors or very young. Would like more diversity as well. Greater help for young people, jobs & rec centers Get rid of dope dealers. Assist in improving community trust. Encourage neighborhood relations. Improve commerce and community as it translates into emerging area. We do not live here but love Detroit & want to assist in bringing this great city back to where it was long ago. More safety for our children. More homes occupied. Recreation for youth. Develop programs to help stabliziae my neighborhood & draw people to the many empty homes that are in good condition. I live next door to a newly rehabbed but empty house. I would like a good neighbor to live there. Prioritizing our area for improving city services and re-use or demo of vacant housing and commercial. Demolish the blight. Assist homeowners to make improvements on their property as the value has decreased. Help oweners who are under the water in their mtgs. Provide space to train youth and under employment training. Clean and maintain vacant lots. Park playgrounds to have lawn care. Streets maintained and cleaned neighborhood lot that are vacant and unkempt. Am praying that the housing issue be dealt with honestly and how the crime has had a tragic impact on some residents and to encourage people to stay in Detroit, not be driven out by crime in particular. Knock down burnt out vacate homes. Require other homes that are empty to be boarded up. Assist us by tearing down houses that we choose. Providing dumpsters for us to do clean-up. Provide hydrant wrenches & hoses for community gardens like NY city does. Zone Brightmoor as mixed residential & agriculture! Include solar, wind & geothermal in building codes. I hope it brings more residetns and more businesses. I would like to see a Borders, Toy R Us or some other chain. On the other hand, I do want independent stores survive. To help with job, safety, police responses time improve.
Build stores and restaurants in walking distance. Bring Grand River back to the great shopping area it used to be. Bring the shopping diversity. Bars, entertainment, healthy groceries (organic produce) etc, employment opportunities. Housing for a diverse demographic, educational resources. Assist us in creating a safe, clean, connected and beutiful place to live! Make it a better place for families. Bring Resouces. Revitalization Funds. Security & Lights. Public Art Projects. I hope that it brings the much needed resources to empower the residents in order to bring in more residents and businesses that will bring up employment. Clean up blocks - tear down burn-out houses. Build community gardens - why not? Better than what's there. Help Brightmoor be a full-service neighborhood for residents - e.g. closer police precinct. Improve the overall quality. Provide resources for those who want to contribute something positive. Create space for mentoring program. Make it be a better and happier comunity. Strengthen the neighborhood assn's. Assist with real estate stabilization through home foreclosure assistance, home renovations and zoning enforcement. Strengthen neighborhood security. Assist w/ small business development. I hope that is will bring more people to our community to fill the vacant homes. Clean it up both trash & crime. Financial support in the neighborhood, rebirth of community, land development Invest in the Grass Roots organizations there. I hope that quality of life will improve. Demolition, improved schools, greater access to healthy food and public education on health and safety are vital. Transportation opportunities, especially for children to school are very important. Help clean up the area, replace or tear down abandon houses. Make it better for kids & adults. Build more parks & plant more flowers & more gardens. Clean up the neighborhoods and make it a place for young children to grow and contribute positely to the environment. Make it look better/Help it to be safer/More education for young and old/Better streets/More activities for youth/More support systems (shelters, homes, counselors)/Medical centers/Libraries Come up with a plan that will help residents thrive in this community. Restore lights. 2. Demolish or repair abandoned or empty houses. 3. More police patrols. 4. Police response to unlawful "parties" on land located at Griggs & Ilene. 5. Consider neighborhood abandonment when schools are closed. Neighborhood destroyed when Monnier was closed. 6. Single story housing for seniors. In the Brightmoor Neighborhood, I hope the Detroit Works Project can do something about the abandon/vacant homes and buildings. Bring jobs. Help get new business in city. Give us autonomy in zoning, permitting and land acquisition. Make us an experimental neighborhood. Legalize urban gardening and urban farming! Support the development of a sustainable community: Urban gardens. Green energy. Revitalized housing. Community entrepreneurial production. Help spread knowledge in my neighborhood about how folks can help other neighborhoods grow. We have an active community in which residents have good ideas for how to improve the neighborhood. I hope that Detroit Works Project will support ideas that the residents have for land use. I hope that the project will help the Brightmoor neighborhood not only survive but thrive. Incentivize college students to stay here or come here. My hope is that DWP will improve MANY neighborhoods but most importantly, build a cohesive positive vision that all Detroiters can embrace. Provide opportunities for "farm" community members to buy vacant lots - need new codes for small animals and agriculture that help grow food and community. Support our efforts to do innovative things in Brightmoor. Respect the density of our interactions. Support/make it easier for us to do urban agriculture.
Employ people in the neighborhood in the revilatization jobs generated ie. demolition, rehab, construction, daycare, new business, recycling, urban farming, landscaping, etc.! All by lowering city expenses: Improve city services. Demolish homes beyond salvage. Board up vacant homes. May not be jurisdiction, but we need better schools. Populate our homes that are vacant. A decent school board with less rancor and a good school curriculum. Incentives to stay in city when suburbs look so much more attractive with less taxes. Help us find a building so we can set up a free dental clinic. We have the dental equipment & dentist read to work in Brightmore. Get the property values up. Help keep businesses open. Improve lighting, police protection. Improve the job situation. Help rebuild a safe & healthy environment for all existing & future residents. There are so many burned out homes that are abandoned. I know it is expensive but we would love to see those homes done. Demolish abandon houses & building. Improve police services. Improve illegal dumping. Demolish blight. Create an active, thriving community that citizens will take pride in and take care of. Removed burned up houses. Clean up parks. Remove trash. Keep grass on empty lots cut. Clean in up. Put people in Det to work. Get rid of dope house. What is it that Detroit Works is mandated to do? Work with the Brightmoor Alliance to achieve the Alliance's goal. Our non-profit wants to build a sustainable model home in the Brightmoor area. Detroit Works will be a help in making this happen. I hope they will remove all burned out housing. This way individuals will not have places to dump. Jobs, clean up and more neihbors Help to inspire more togetherness within the community. Market our neighborhood so our houses will sell. Demolish homes and create beautiful landscaping. Build new housing projects and maintain area. Enforce property laws/codes in area, improve services, trim trees and cut grass more often on vacant lots. Improve air quality and cleanliness. Engage in making sure residents adhere to the ordinance and regulations. The city need to be clean. People can no longer be allowed to throw trash around. Stop dumping. 2. Board up vacant houses. 3. Better patrol of policemen. Close strip bars. Financial support to to continue to maintain the vacant houses in our Grandmont-Rosedale communities. Help set a date to "tear down" vacant houses that are on the demolition list @ Detroit NRP Bldg & Safety. Provide additional directions, working together to improve our neighborhoods, one block @ a time & move forward in rebuilding our city forward. Redevelopment for area Lyndon Improve snow removal from residential streets. Improve sewage drainage on my street. It has been back up for years. Demolish - the vacant unsafe buildings next to the church's property. 11722, 11732. Show interest and support to North Rosedale Park and activities. Leverage and listen to the existing knowledge & experience of planners, residents, activists, etc. who have been working so hard for so long. Increase opportunities for relationships to build. Create and build a vision for the city - a vision that goes beyond efficiency, toward enhancement of the city's comprehensive environment. Currently, residents' health is negatively impacted by very poor air quality. A clean and environmentally progressive city is key for any "repopulation." This is also key for young people - good environment improves school performance, etc. Help us stabilize our neighborhood, renovate and re-sell the many foreclosed homes in our area. WE NEED AN ORDINANCE FOR MANDATORY RECYCLING. Demolish city-owned properties that are abandoned beyond repairs. Support local community/neighborhood organizations in efforts to maintain quality of housing stock (ie. code enforcement, public light maintenance, etc). Assist the community in maintaining and improving city parks. Demolish city owned properties beyond repair such as old precinct at Grand River & McNichols. Provide support to sustain the neighborhood when combined with our efforts. Combine north police officer in city initiatives to attract officers to reside in our community thru incentives, etc. Support our excellent & viable community - parks, public lighting, safety police & fire, community associations.
See comments from [name removed] Further stabilize neighborhood, target as "a place to live." Assist w/ business attraction & retention & corridor revitalization. Better safety More developed parks for gardens & art projects. More grocery & retail. More dine-in restaurants (not fast food). Better flat bldgs for seniors. Light rail transport that is reliable & economical. More entertainment options. School superindent answerable only to Mayor -> improved education. Provide good quality jobs for resident of the neighborhood. Help to get it back up to part and make it nice again. Need to put parks and places for children to play & go with the vacant land at each end of the street. I think it will be useful to have neighborhood based conversations to assure that funds are targeted to meet specific & desired needs. First I think it's critical to perform the neighborhood assessments (analysis) that you spoke of. It may be useful to have some minimums w/ regard to what are essential services or resources within all neighborhoods. Sort of along the line of critical minimums/needs. A clean, safe crime free neighborhood. Better lighting. Replace bad roads & sidewalks. Radio patrol - see more police in the neighborhoods. Major chain grocery store in Detroit. Restore and maintain Tuttle Park by replacing playground equipment; adding park benches and tables, an installing barbeque grills. Restore & maintain Anderson Park by installing a walking path, make this park more feasible for sports activities for our children. Let us know what will be the realistic options for my neighborhood of 8 mile between Meyers and Wyoming. Develop the area on McNichols between the Lodge freeway and Livernois Stop people from dumping trash. 2. Tear down abandoned/burned down houses. Get rid of abandoned /dilapidated houses. 2. Clean up trash on the streets (piles everywhere). 3. Stop people from dumping. A real sense of whats needed to move the city forward. Implement some ideas that show real progress! Invest in Rouge Park: Picnic shelters, more public safety, recreation center. [Illegible] Rouge Park to Hines Drive & new greenways developed in the city. Also, add bicycle lanes on Warren & all main roads. Help us to stabilize the Warrendale Neighborhood with a focus on Rouge Park as a major regional asset. We are one of the more stable areas as documented by your presentation buy we need help now in regards to safety & dealing with the massive amount of foreclosures & business closing & banks that do nothing to help prevent foreclosures or to take care of property they now own. Help stablize the residential property market and decrease the amount of vacancies. Improve public services regarding police presence and reduce crime, improve the educational atmosphere and options and improve available public transport. Maintain housing stock. 2. Improve police protection. Improve public safety. 2. Attract new residents to NW Detroit in the long run. Bring more small businesses along the major corridor, as well as a retail shopping and quality restaurant destination. Retain & support residents Institute curbside recycling. PUBLIC LIGHTING!!! Streets around our house are dark. Comprehensive land use strategy to help inform & direct neighborhood developments. Vacant property strategy. Keep the grass cut in the park at the Johnson Ctr, Chippewa @ Cherrylawn Support phase 2 Penrose Village Homes being built (48 new homes - affordable homes for families). Allow Theater Bizzare to continue to hold annual event. Support youth program (summer) at the Penrose Art House, and year round food production (growing) in neighborhood gardens. Add to police force - we ahve too much crime and drug houses. Prostitutes also. Need to get our neighborhood street lights on! Ralston Street - Woodward to State Fair by the bowling alley and Stone House Pub there are no lights on!!! Not safe for business, kids and residents. Increase interest in our homes & beautiful neighborhoods. Stablize the neighborhood by decreasing vacant housing; increasing security Bring in more small business, entrepreneurs along Woodward Increase small business growth. Provide more opportunity for housing in area (i.e. for Wayne State students) Make commercial strips more attractive. Improve safety. Reduce vacancies/maintain existing vacant properties. Mandate curbside recycling throughout the city. Provide quality services and investments similar to what downtown communities are recieving.
Help to ensure its long term viability by improving lightin (it is a historic neighborhood!) & neighborhood policing to deter crime. With no driveways, the streets are FULL of cars & quite appetizing to roaming thieves. Improve police patrols. Tear down burnt out building on the corner of Joy Rd & Robson St. Been in area for over 25 yrs and nothing has been done to remove this blight in area. Maintain & stabilize, enhance identity, public funding for greening, transportation enhancements, increase resident volunteering. Bring family back to the neighborhood and parks Rebuild one block at a time. Recreation center. Help to direct funds so more programs can assist youth & young adults with a safe place to enjoy sports. Leave space so more information (and services) can be shared with community. Help to direct more training in neighboring. Bring more like-minded residents into the neighborhood. Clean city up. Help us w/ squatters, drug houses, and especially w/ the stripping and destruction of abandoned homes. Help us rehabilitate it, and knock down the junk houses. Help it survive! Hope to make our neighborhood liveable again. Make our neighborhood safer for us I dont want to retire (soon) to just be locked in my home. Or afraid to travel. Make our city cleaner. I would like to see Warren Ave from Greenfield to Southfield resurfaced and beams new curbs maybe cement flower pots. WACO will plant flowers in the spring. Help businesses with facets. New sidewalk (handicap corners) curbs. Eliminate government barriers to entrepreneurs. Ordinances against agriculture including chickens & beekeeping. 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. Not sure 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. Get us curbside recycling. Address houses needing up keep - painting, overgrown tres, unkept yards. Encourage the return of the police walking beat officer Clean, safe, economically viable place to live, work and play. A clean, safe and inspiring place to raise and nurture children. Involve community 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. Re-establish stability as a significant, well-maintained, fully occupied historic district nationally sought after by tourists who wish a unique experience. Improve neighborhoods. Correct. Get a handle on the rapid neighborhood decline and crime lack of police services. Provide information on how to obtain a city-owned property to be rehabilitated for free and sold or donated to a needy family. Provide help for the homeless: shelters & education/job assistance Provide housing for the homeless Improved services and access to quality amentities. Increase making landlords especially banks take care of empty houses Stabilize it. Get empty houses filled with people. Restore commercial on Livernois. 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. Help make it a safer place. Relocate people into our vacant homes and make our streets safer. Encourage businesses to locate in the neighborhood. Encourage Detroiters to build Detroit. I am not worried about Indian Village. I am concerned what you are going to do for the rest of the East Side! 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. Increase a sense of community
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. 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. Provide more services for seniors. Help to alleviate the many complaints that I and other citizens have. Create opportunities for safer living and healthier living. 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. Create business on Grand River and Joy Rd. Create jobs. 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. 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. 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. Bring more programs for children and at-risk families. Blight elimination (Intervale & Cloverdale) Provide neighborhood re-development assistance. Mony To bring more residents to our neighborhoods to avoid the vacant home from being burned, vandalized or Consider resue of vacant building and demolish destoried building. Stabilize housing, increase public safety, make sure that Cooley High does not become vandalized or torn down. (urgrent repurposing until the population can support it as an educational institution once again) Buy some people out or increase the people in new housing Revitalize it, low income loans for fix up Take over vacant land, clean up other area's other than downtown! Make it attractive for people to come live. Provide for security to take foothold, allow rejuventation of the industrial base for job birth, improve the earning potential so that houses can again be invested in and neighborhoods remembered by city services. Stablize it Make more reasonable living for people that can not afford to rent from these homes or own houses. Make it a better place. Help to get word out about what happening in our community. Help to get the word out about the things in the neighborhood Bring more residents. Promote economic dev. - more jobs SOLVENCY. a) More walkable for old timers b) Safety c) Attractive to new comers d) Fix up small projects on individual homes for income challenged owners (rebuild histroic areas) Continue doing your best making Detroit a wonderful loveable city Help improve & repair the homes people are trying to hold onto - repairs forclosures, utilize repairs. Permit the lots in city vacant more than one together available for sale to gardeners. Rail downtown would vibrate Jefferson to Downtown Provide resources & support for "shoring" up our community. Things like support for creative land reuse, park maintenance and housing rehabilitation. Clearly reflect resident priorities. Clearly outline how all the vacant land will be re-used to create jobs. Tear down homes and continue to have wonderful gardens. Populate the beautiful vacant properties that are going to waste. Help to bring about all of these much needed changes. Focus investment in somewhat stable areas. Provide help with home repairs because we have a lot of seniors & other limited income homeowners. Sustain it! Build homes & structures that play up the 1800 character of the area. Reinforce the strength and rebuild in the spotty areas of decline. Relocate people here! 2) Clean up the environment - plan for better air quality, better
water quality. 3) Promote smart transportation planning that creates economic benefits for the neighborhood and strengthens existing neighborhood fabric. Allocate resources to create jobs, homes, stores, community centers. Keep property values at a reasonable value. Recycling at curbside (services). Keep our parks operating & keep maintained. Recognize that there is a problem, and there are organizations/foundation working solutions to the problems. Make Butzel more of a community hub. Replicate the programs from youthville in Butzel. Encourage small business entreprenureship in a number of industries - not just beauty & barber shops or nail salons. Make my area attractive to a wider demographic (ethnicity, age, increased income, younger employed families w/children, etc). Make it safer & more viable - ie. Better schools, etc. Recognize the effort and dedication required by the homeowners in IV to stay in Detroit when barely acknowledged. (Pull such neighborhoods together to work on issues) Develop density and reduce crime. Encourage ownership of homes - making vacant homes available to increase density. Reduction in crime - especially home invasions. Encourage strong community engagement, cohesion. Continue to maintain city services. Encourage/assist business development by appealing to potential Detroit entrepears (sp?). I hope that it will make the surrounding areas of Detroit stronger. Specifically, the North End is a neighborhood that needs stabilization. More consistent city services, historic preservation Strengthen the surrounding neighborhoods which will have a positive impact on our neighborhood. Bring a vibrant, safe neighborhood, as well as, bring property values out of the deep hole they seem to have fallen Continue to provide a systematic method for engaging public input. Bring in the new home owners to help maintain neighborhood stability (east english village) Get rid of abandon houses/or. Clean the streets, make side walks available to walk. Increase public transportation/more buses. Increase access to the Riverwalk for bicycling to downtown. Increase retail opportunities for shopping (especially hardware and department stores). Can we attract a Walmart smaller urban store to Detroit (on East Jefferson). Extend riverwalk, bike path to Waterworks Park. Restore the playground. Please tear down the adbanond house Cleaner air through emission control through controlled small and middle size and large business parks. Access to riverwalk - full length - through Riverside Park w/boat launch. Expand the housing development and provide more/better safety. For Detroit in general, I hope to see endless opportunities for involvement in helping the city get back on its feet. Also, a college instructor, I would like to know how I can get my students & college involved. I would love to see a Recreation Ctr. I would love to see the whole city not just my neighborhood become a walking city. One that is safe & attractive. Make City Airport a viable airport bringing jobs & business to our area. Stablize it. Provide adequate housing which will eliminate some of the blight in the neighborhood. I also would like to see more home owners in my neighborhood. Demolish abandoned homes across from St. Raymond: Joann/Fairport by Outer Drive/State Fair, 8 mile rd. Clean up the blight Bring more home owners and renters. Gain community involvement, and educate citizens on the varous programs and opportunities in our area. Improve services. Develop neighborhoods. Increase communication. Attract business. Community involvement. Increase habitation of vacant homes. We have viable location, close to Grosse Pointe, Harper Woods, shopping, parks, schools, etc. Stablize the neighborhood by encouraging and aiding in the sale and/or occupying of the few empty houses in the neighborhood. Enforce quality of life issues such as noise, garbage bin location, cut lawns and important police and EMS response time. Support a community benefits agreement for Delray in the NITC project to revitalize the neighborhood. Detroit owns most of property for the project and has leverage to make a significant impact on the Delray/Ft. Wayne Area. Change the wretched conditions of the people.
Bring new residents, clean up blight, create new business Corktown - Improve sidewalks, bike routes, public transit. Chadsey/Condon Bring it back to life! Support it! Empower it! Stabilize population in SW because incentives encourage people to move here, better services (police, lighting), better public education, smarter investment of city resources. Encourage rehabilitation of vacant/burnt homes, re-commit to Clark Park. Only city have to work the police need. The people in Detroit have to responsible they own property for cleaner. Bring jobs!! Rebuild it instead of continually destroying Rebuild the neighborhoods and schools. Repair a lof of the homes and recreation centers. Eliminate blight & provide public safety. Stop DRIC - pollution in SW Det would only increase. SAFETY Safety & better city services. Give us resources to clean up graffiti. Improve street lighting. Help us stabilize housing, encourage new residents and businesses. Tear down abandoned homes please I want to move to Detroit but I must feel safe and have safe greenways to ride my bike. I like a more populated neighborhood and trust among neighbors are important to me. Create an open dialogue on what is good for the city and how everyone can benefit. Not just the wealthy Focus efforts on strengthening and developing strong neighborhoods and areas, and work towards moving residents from weak areas and returning those areas to green space. The city needs safety and it needs public transit jobs, if you have these big 3, everyone will want to be here. Offer a plan for how to reduce blight in what is one of the most populated, higher income neighborhoods in the city. We have a lot of assets in Elmwood Park and the surrounding area, but there is a limited amount of blight that could be easy to address and would drastically improve the quality of the neighborhood. Provide transportation, services, and safety Eliminate blight: vacant open and dangerous homes, illegal dumping, rehabbing strong homes, demolish burnt out homes, all of this bringing up the property value and increasing perceived safety, making people want to be in the neighborhood. Release grants to smaller community dev. orgs. Fund Small Business Trainers. Secure and release more sm. business funds for Downtown & Neighborhood: Small Professional Service Firms, Retailers, Community Cultural Center Program, Dance Studios, Art Galleries Fill the vacant storefronts, providing jobs and amenities Bring regional resources closer to a shared sense of community. We are expierencing a lot of loss of families lately. I suspect that this has something to do with foreclosures. Many of the unoccupied homes are still in very good condition and could have families in them if the right programs exist. Crime is also an issue. Increase the attractiveness for young professionals and businesses to locate downtown by promoting a strong retail environment for locally-owned businesses, in addition to the cultural and sports amenities.
I do not live in Detroit, but am interested in the program, especially as it relates to creating a stronger connectivity fabric to the surrounding metro area. Many of the services [arts, entertainment, health and education] consumed by the region....reside in Detroit and are in some way funded through contributions outside of the city limits. The attraction of these services by consumers outside of the city limits should be considered in the master plan. How those services can be easiliy accessed and consumed further establishes their viability. Thus, light rail and other transportation services and the plan to connect those to the region are of interest. Also of interest to me is how the city will invest in emerging businesses that will ultimately employ a cross section of people from across the metro area who would work within the city and commute to those employment opportunities. Midtown should be a receiving area for new residents. If we had a hot real estate market and height/density, you could do a transfer of development rights ordinance, but since neither are true, you are left with the Neighborhood enterprise zone tax abatement and some small cash incentives to lure home buyers. Help create a plan for building new viable self-sustaining communities of the future with an emphasis on changing the culture in our youth, training young people and city residents in jobs that are in great demand right in our neighborhood and community with a goal of creating quality service jobs and to stimulate growth, by promoting the developement of a community workforce that will help improve the quality of life for city residents within their neighborhood and communities. The goal is to build healthy strong vibrant selfsustaining neighborhoods and communities in Detroit. My wife and I would like to return to Michigan to begin raising our family. Our preference is Detroit and we are encouraged by Mayor Bing's sense of urgency to reform and start laying the foundation for the future. Not sure. Make it better and set an exampel for other neighborhoods. I want people to stop talking badly about Detroit and to be proud of their city. I want those who left to envious of our progress and to come home! I hope that the Detroit Works Project can empower every neighborhood in the city. Encouraging as many residents as possible to take part in communicating, acting, and cooperating. I would like to see some initiative in bringing the community back together to encourage people in the area to take pride in there property and try to bring the area back to a tight knit community. Increase public safety, lighting, walkability. I hope it will bring mass transit and thereby economic development. I hope we can work together to find productive uses for vacant land and I hope it will allow for less dense communities to have places to come together. By increasing foot traffic and local demand for housing, the boarded up downtown might eventually become a place where people come to live work and shop.
Question 4: What would you like the city of Detroit to look like in 30 years? (524 responses)
Vibrant- attractive- quality schools- excellent city services -culturally diverseminimal crime- a place Americans and foreigner would love to live in Diminished illiteracy at every level More than likely I will not be there to see Detroit 30 years from now. I hope it will be a thriving city again with pristine neighborhoods, a top notch public education systems. Hope it has a rapid "world-class" transist system and people working again. A lot of work. The hole city is bad. Every neighborhood in the city will need a makeover. Jobs An american center, as it was 50 years ago. Redesigned infastructure and strong commitment to small business and cottage industry Clean, fewer signs and neon colors, The bank or the post office in Detroit should look like the bank in W. Bloomfield. Zone and code enforcement. Manicured green space. Fewer liquor stores and gas stations Low unemployment, good schools, clean streets, diverse. CLEAN/Public Transportation/better lighting/progressive schools Clean, green (energy use and plantings), w/mass transit, safe great schools,thoughtful redevelopment, bustling, booming Balance of commercial, green, transport, larger tax base (residents), attract highly educated, benchmark health care (DMC, HF), Established film cos, prof. central structures, young, educated, near LARGE institutions (DMC) Smaller, denser with light rail and other modes of mass transit links to suburbs. Vibrant corridors w/ open space and community agriculture. Lots of new, modern, energy efficient housing. A small city by the river where people treat each other well, with meaningful employment (650,000 residents), with good public transits, schools, libraries, etc. Fully build out with increased population and jobs for citizens Excellent public transportation used by all, not just poor. Guns off the street, out of young peoples hand (no gun zone-whole city) 3. No vacant homes for over 6 months More walkable - meaning safer streets, which include not only more CJ intervention, but working street lights along major corridors - like Outer Drive and James Couzens - more diversity in terms of ethnicities truly living in our neighborhoods. This would definitely require better K-12 schools, better public transit Better educated citizens, less crime, new enegy efficient homes, eliminate illegal dumping. *Includes decontruction instead of demolition. Light rail on Woodward - past Pontiac (to Lansing) Gratiot & Grand River connecting to buses. Fully recycling (business/residential) w/manufacture of recycled goods in city.. High use of solar, wind, & water (river) power w/ retro fitted homes & businesses. Blue collar workforce retained & manufacturing of train, bus, and rail components and cars. No cars allowed in central city. Parks/bike paths for citizens. Functioning State Fair. *Includes warehouses & businesses selling 2nd hand goods. Light rail system, thriving commercial strips that anchor walkable communities, green industry capital of the US with diverse job options The "Paris" of the midwest with stable neighborhoods and dynamic educational/technological institutions reflective of Detroits rich history. A model city with liveable wages, inviting green neighborhoods and learning institutions, keeping our diversity in tact. To once again be a city of families proud to call it home. (Detroit) Be a thriving community like Ferndale, where residents can be in walking distance of a variety of stores. Walkable, transit rich, green, carbon neutral, full employment, diverse, democratic, vibrant, resiliant A brand new metropolis, like downtown Cleveland A welcoming city providing secure environment for its citizens, education for youth, a growing population and economy. Livable & clean Build environment that is people friendly, walkable, green, safe, maintain, improve, expand housing options, cultural access (libraries, museums,etc) wired community or most advanced technology environments, safe spaces and places for children and families, parks, recreation centers, schools. Neighborhood centers next to interior lakes and parks w/ vibrant central core Sustainable urban villages, communities with identity and community pride, quality education and safe environments for all neighbors Economic sustainable city A city with the population which is the same, or, greater than what the population was when I arrived here in June 1967, and located in a state which
has eighteen, or, more , congressional representatives (and the only state with three U.S. Senatorssmile) Make unique neighborhoods. Some of the world's best cities are known for their unique, walkable neighborhoods/districts that connect to each other via rail, bus, bike etc. Vibrant urban environment, good education, reasonable number I would like the city to be as vibrant as others that I have visited. Last year we had several friends who have visited who have been impressed with what has gone on in Detroit thus far. Keep the impetus going! Safe, educated, jobs @ all levels Smaller, but what it looked like in 1965 when I moved here Vibrant neighborhoods and a downtown with a focus on entertainment and tourism Detroit should actually be a multicultural city with fair housing, equal opportunity education and a healthy environment A growing city that works for its citizens A Bloomfield Hills, Farmington Hills, Ferndale Detroit must become a safe, clean, and financially solvent municipality. Diversity is our strength. Income inequalities affect our overall quality of life. Bridges to increased opportunities to quality education, better public transportation, and public safety are imperative. Beautiful as it used to look and people who are kind, loving, helpful,Godly and love Detroit. Lots more green space, several commercial farming operations. Light Rail down all major arteries in the city. More housing that is friendly for singles and young adults-condos, apts. Plenty of retail of big box stores and groceries. Many family friendly restaurants. I think we can have a great city at 750k is managed well. Clean, beautiful, shopping in neighborhoods, effective PUBLIC transportation, jobs for youth, no drugs, integrated good public schools Sharp. Full of places for family activities. Free from drug pushers Same buildings - new uses. Clean, newly developed and well occupied, also structured and organized More greenspaces, places to walk, better transportation for aging residents, more basic services within walking distance of key, concentrated neighborhoods - like groceries Parks, open space, people growing healthy food, mass transit, good bus system to get around, historic buildings to use and preserve our heritage, diverse people (economically & ethnically), living together. Safety - by city and neighbors watching out for each other. CLEAN & livable, centers for youth, effective city govt and efficient school board Like a city that is socially just, environmentally conscious and fiscally sound A city with diverse employment. A vibrant downtown with condos and apartments. A rail system form 8 mile to Jefferson, which is in the works. Restore the Avenue of fashion - Livernois. Active, diverse, safe, energy efficient environment Those who serve and work in Detroit must live in Detroit. A city that is clean and green. (Windmill/solar etc) Diverse Driven economy by small businesses, well designed landscape in vacant lots on highways, safer streets Thriving healthy (green space, energy efficient, healthy food) areas of higher density, mass transit, and efficient city services, including safety Beautiful A group of communities with some associated commercial districts, a prosperous downtown, a great DIA/Library District, a school system that residents feel comfortable with and are proud to send their children to, and neighborhoods that have been sustained and some redevelopment. Economically and racially diverse community where people chose to live, work and play. I would like to see no more dilapidated and abandoned buildings. We need better schools and smaller classes. Better than it looks now. Blight free, dense neighborhoods. Every neighborhood with adequate retail and employment opportunities. Large green areas - either farming or even wilderness, prarie. New development combined with rehabbed/renovated older neighborhoods. Our architechural heritage is our least appreciated asset. A diverse population. Chicago, but better Vibrant. Busy city with world class transportation Walkable, bicycle friendly, parks, paths, nature preserves, clean, beautiful, vibrant
A more stable version of its current self, with better transit. I hope that it is local and viable not based on big box stores instead based on local viable healthy liveable communities. Strong preserved housing stock, mixes of denisty, with beautiful natural landscapes The survey was leading. Certain things need to exist in NO PRIORITY ORDER! Vibrant enduldging citywhere people enjoy the quality of live Short on abandoned buildings, more magnet schools, more recreational centers Mixed income housing neighborhoods; locally owned businesses, good public schools, many well-maintained parks, clear air (no incinerator!), recycling, family-sustaining wages for all workers, health care for all, high ethical expectation for political & economic deciders A diverse global city that capitalizes on the special assets of the city ----music, entertainment, sports, architecture. Keep property clean like New York, make new cars at the plant, more jobs for people A city that has jobs for its citizens, recreation for citizens, supermarkets Fantastic, modern, architecture, beautiful housing I'll be dead! More Diverse population Vibrant city with entertainment, parks, etc. There are some cities like Dallas have eateries, lodging and chain department stores throughout the inner city. Let Detroit catch up I would like Detroit to develop density and population in areas that are already have a strong community fabric We need - JOBS! JOBS! JOBS! PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION! GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE! PUBLIC SCHOOLS, PUBLIC UTILITIES, Community GARDENS, FARMERS MARKETS Clean city throughout, more trees, better roads I would like the City of Detroit to look a little better than Hiroshima Japan after we dropped the atom bomb. Light rail, safe community, education, jobs & better care for aged children. It would be safe, livable and healthy for all to live. More clean with better city service and less pot holes The center of region stop sprawl! Diverse, cultural, active, increase tourism, art, art, art in the streets and neighborhoods. Brownfield. A city with good city services & clean environment. A super big remake, or an Super Sized Downtown Birmingham Michigan, community. Improve, Hopefully beautiful. I dont know I might be dead. Time to love each other and stop ripping off Detroit. The neighborhood of old. Where residents look out for each other. Strong neighborhoods, numerous small business opportunities with neighborhoods. Less polution in the 48217 area. 1 million, good transportation, great K-12 education system. Metropolitan govt w/ suburbs & tax sharing. Repurposed industrial land. More density along key corridors, apartments. Quality schools, etc. Several compact neighborhoods connected by mass/rapid transit with vast areas of open space inbetween. Grenn, active, diverse, inclusive! A city that is healthy, exciting and nurtures its young people to be global leaders. Also, a city that effectively serves all its resients and embraces its greatest strength, its diversity of people, activities and opportunities. A smaller but vibrant city with a DPS that we can be proud of. Neighborhoods with good, affordable housing for families who feel safe in their neighborhoods. A reliable system of mass transit. Clean. Great schools, mass transit throughout the city, no blight, low crime, thriving arts & professional sports, restaurants, grocers, shopping, etc, & entertainment venues in the city! Nice and clean. Made whole with housing rebuilt across this city. Retail returned to city. Hold city workers accountable. Would love for us to be among the States' top cities, not for our crime rate but for being a hub for technology, transportation, and education. We need our inner city youth to be empowered.
I imagine the Detroit that amazed me when I wa a child during the 70's! The well kept neighborhoods and businesses. The Downtown area full of shopping and tourists. Like it did 40 yrs ago. Cleaner/safer. Nice neighborhood, strong commercial corridor, greenscape/[illegible] with low density. [illegible] w/ green thoroughfare. *Diverse - economically/socially/ethnically/culturally *Safe *Thriving business high quality grocery stores with fresh produce & also gourmet/retail, clothing for a variety of groups. *Public transportation *Public school system that works well. Great bus system, light rail to transport to northern suburbs (where jobs are). Huge, beautiful parks, 1m more trees planted, bike paths. City services that work, esp: police patrols in neighborhood, curbside recycling, street lights that don't go out; Everything online. Vibrant downtown shopping. Mass transit (including to airport). Every school a Cass, Renaissance level school. Strong inhabitant-full neighborhoods. Smart utilization or land (gardens/farms, new developments) Clean and sooner than 30. A modern city complete with mass transit systems such as light rail, high speed rail and walking and bike paths. Elimination of all contaminated industries and sites and creation of green spaces/recreation. Tight, multicultural, integrated along all lines - male/female, face, age, ethnicity. Detroit must embrace and promote diversity in the city. As a model for other cities for how innovative, entreprenurial, teamwork can transform a city. Just like it used to when we were kids. A beautiful place and safe place to raise our families. Safe and Clean, with kids playing in parks and adults strolling to church on foot unafraid of being mugged. Better than the war zone it looks like. Thriving, safe, clean, inviting place to live. Vibrant, green (both re energy & trees), employed, supported by local business Safe streets; cultural and educational "hubs"; improved shopping and services (Meijers, drying cleaners, [illegible]); urban "farms" and green zones in every neighborhood; urban greenhouses for flowers, trees - and jobs in floriculture, agriculture. Vacant land turned to productive use (parks, urban gardens & eventually new housing); destination for people & families wanting to live in an urban area; businesses thriving; Riverfront developed; unemployment level at or below statewide rate; cultural attractions full; public transportation accessible & utilitzed by peopel all around region; immigrants attracted to various ethnic enclaves around city; clean & safe (perception of a safe place to live, work, & visit); all border crossings publicly owned. A leader in small business the best urban parks system in the world. Vibrant, cultural, pretty safe place. One of the top 10 places to live in the world. A place that people would love to come and visit and not be scared of. Downtown Chicago. Hopefully a safe place to live. Don't know - there has been nothing positive in my community for many years (45 years). A clean and prospit city I would love for it to look like Bloomfield Hills or better. Clean, safe, for children, seniors and everyone. Plaes to recreate (recreation) and assemble in the community, (coffee/smoothie shop, restaurants, etc.) (walking, art, history, healthy living, eating). Like California = no pot holes. The suburban communities! A vibrant city which people can live & work. Would also like the city to be less racially segregated, due to negative perceptions, etc. Neighborhoods and areas for recreation/parks for everyone to enjoy. Places to work, businesses, stores, etc. And a safe environment. Cleaner, safer, in better repair, with more opportunity. Community that welcomes all. Reduces crime. Improve education. Vital neighborhoods will be redensified around green amenities and other strong assets. Principal focal ponits & major thoroughfares will be intensively landscaped. Outstanding schools will anchor safe, walkable neighborhoods. We will have rapid transit to jobs at the airport & along major freeways. Good services covered by the residence tax dollars. Safe streets, operating public lighting, roads without potholes. Above adequate city transportation to meet the residents needs. Excellent customer services by city employees. Improved quality of life for Detroit residents and neighborhoods.
Not sure, honestly I give the city 5 years before I make a move. I do not have 30, 20, 10 years to wait. Modern - efficient - clean - safe Walkable, transit available/dependable, reliable. Strong education, more sustainability in future and remade structures. Strict rules/penalties on property violations. Sustainable communities that offer residents access to maintained parks, higher quality education & a city pride in their community. Growing and thriving. Vibrant; busy pedestrian & bike traffic; livily business districts - Toronto With mass transit. With recycling. Manufacturing green technology (wind & water turbines; small & energy-efficient vehicles, solar panels, etc.) at good wages. Integrated housing, parks, urban farms, industry, common areas. I see us being the center of the regional food shed. Beautiful, safe and lots of jobs for all the residents. Like it looked in the 50's and 60's with some improvements. Single houses, elm trees living both sides of street, people sitting on their porches looking after the kids and each other. Good schools. A diverse city that celebrated neighborhoods individual cultures and uniqueness. A school system where teachers feel empowered and useful and students are successful. Green space. A place to feel safe at night. Mass transit! Vibrant downtown. Lots of trees and parks, prosperous happy, peaceful, healthy residents. Children who are well fed and have access to excellent education. 5 lines of light rail. Frequent rapid buses. Recycling. A city with a diversity of options for lifestyles and opportunities - Educational -Cultural -- Economic. Different options that are not currently available. Ex = no walkable neighborhoods to speak of. A mosaic of small business districts that will attract people Centered on local food, green energy, and education an old neighborhood can become more vibrant and safe. It will also attract and keep people living, working, and shopping in the city. Taller; more populous; easy rail access throughout city & to suburbs; industries that are diverse/diversified economy; more public art & more affluent residents in the city limits. See above - most of all, city administration in all areas responding to citizen needs & requests A five star city. I would like that everyone would have access world class education shopping and recreation within walking distance. Better! Better Pittsburgh A regrowth of the neighborhood from downtown GWT to restablish what we used to be. Vibrant & healthy community. Full neighborhoods. Good property values. Vibrant and friendly. It doesn't need to be New York but it would be beneficial to its residents & have good public services. Make people work, live & play here. Cleaner and people will take care of their homes as when they loose the home they let it go to disrepair. It is difficult to find the needed parts for the historic homes. A city with extensive public transportation, thriving urban farming movement, strong communities, low unemployment rate and better public health. EUROPE Safe, healthy, sustainable, creative, inspiring place to live, attracting people to move in and participate. Denser. No huge surface lots in primary business districts (like by my house @ 3rd & Holden); Better transit than San Francisco; Mixed use, rehabilitated buildings (not ugly new ones all the time); bicycle access everywhere! (like Denmark); public spaces and reinvestment in icons like Belle Isle Conservatory. A walkable city of two million people. A great place to live, work, and play where people want to visit and spend money. Vibrant and just. Cleaner & safer A safe, green, walkable city with a dynamic education system. I dont know Car-free neighborhoods linked by public transit.
Clean, vibrant, walkable/bikeable, historical building intact. Dense, safe, healthy communities where kids can play out-of-doors. Unique neighborhoods/corridors. A green, sustainable community (ecological, social, economic) with a strong educational system, resident neighborhoods and services to meet the needs of a diverse population. A beautiful, healthy, peace-filled city where ALL are welcome. Clean, local neighborhoods & businesses. New green jobs. A city that is open and engaged in change and evolution - on that has a diversity of employment, education, housing stock & residents. I imagine a city of strong, village-like neighborhoods connected via mass-transit and greenways that extend through greenspaces. I would like to see a considerable amount of brownfield redevelopment and environmental cleanup. I would also like to see a school system that has transformed from the shame of the nation to the pride of the nation. I would like a denser city, beginning downtown and radiating outward. Public transportation must be improved and reliance on automobiles decreased. I would like Detroit to be a city that capitalized on its previously vacant land to develop community green space, food-security related enterprises, and new techonology sites/industries. I would like to see historical structures salvaged & redeveloped & good neighborhood schools. Eco-villages connected w/ public transportation and bike trails. More population density. Greater use of waterways/riverfront. Efficient & inexpensive public transit. Fewer polluters in SW Det! New DRIC! Dense pockets, lots of green. Small biz. Transit & bike lanes. I'd like to see land used more effectively/efficiently w/ functional transportation connections throughout the region that facilitates access to jobs Lots of trees. Lite rail on major thoroughfares. Better schools - more accessible libraries and cultural center thru 7 day operations. More collaboration between communities w/ in Detroit Have resources in the community and to provid and substane a healthy life style. Creative, dynamic, supporting of cultural & arts, walkable on going festivals, supportive of small businesses. Strong infrastructure. A place that people want to live in & visit - it needs to be a place that is relevant in people's lives Progressive. Consistent. A bustling, thriving city capable of providing all the services which make great cities, festivals, parades, shopping, eating, public transport, safety, community centers & on & on. A real city. Not suburban development, curb cuts, parking lots, large setbacks. TREES! I would like it to resemble the attitudes found in the 1920's when we were seen as a world leader and full of hope. Thriving, residential & commercial density. Slow growth, adquate stores, adequate schools to entice people back. More gardens, less blight. Thriving downtown. Lower tax rate - less onerous inspections - better mass transit/rail. Population between 500,000 and 750,000 - planted forests across large swatches of Detroit - legal backyard marijuana - taxed commercial hemp/marijuana operations. Wayne St. Univ recognized as world class. Working public/charter school system. Golf courses runing through farm areas & forest of Detroit. A real recycling program - curbside pickup - no incinerator. Diversified, vibrant, known for it's history, known for a diverse economy, high quality education, green A diversified city with local and mass transit, cooperatively owned stores, more regional cooperation between counties and the city, new city charter. 1st class global center as well as fun, inviting place for people to live & work. Detroit needs a downtown station for commuter rail from suburban areas. A new center station will be insufficient to encourage business, visitors, and commuter travel. Established, dense neighborhoods with access to public transportation and basic amenities. Sense of place that spotlights Detroit's history and diversity. It will NOT look like the suburbs. I like it to be a place with few foreclosures, houses in good repair, low poverty, and happy people. Clean with light rail on Woodward and Jefferson East. An expanded version of Willis Village Greenways, public art, diverse, rail lines, developed neighborhoods Chicago, IL & Toronto, ON
Elimination of blight. Kids not living on streets with vacant burned out properties. Vibrant parks & public spaces that are kid and family friendly. Safe feeling in ALL neighborhoods. A vertically & densely utilized space. Agri-business advancement, more arts funding. An updated, well running, thriving, cosmopolitan city Mix of new construction and preserved historic houses. I would like to see more commercial corridors as well as more walkable/bikeable neighborhoods. A city with lots of public transportation options and less automobiles. Less blight, renovation & less demolition except for unsafe structures. Better enforcement of blight infringement. Clean, safe & friendly. Clean with more greenspaces. Strong neighborhood associations. Schools of choice. Local shopping with diverse choices. Like heavenly paradise. Vibrant, sustainable corridors connected to each other by safe, affordable & convenient mass transit options. Blight replaced with green space. Roads made to be bike - and pedestrian - friendly. [Illegible] function as they should: No burned out buildings left for years. Business owners enjoy starting up in Detroit. Detroiters are hired for public projects and are considered competitive workers. High-identity complete neighborhoods w/ good citywide connectivity and council by districts connected to the CDBG system. 'Hoods have names & strong collective identity. Neighborhood kids can safely walk to a quality school. There is a grocery store, coffee shop, hardward store, restaurant, barbershop, etc. easily accessible by bus or walking or bike. Neighbors know each other and look out for each other and have jobs. Viable, dense neighborhoods - Green industry centers - light rail service. A viable, public school, fire station, mini police station/"city hall" for each sector of the city. Something like Pittsburgh. They dealt w/ an economic collapse in their primary industry a few decades before us and are a solid model for where we should try to head as a city. We have to focus on and repurpose our assets (both human and economic) to take advantage of what we still do well. Mass transit, thriving neighborhoods. Diverse. A place for all people to live: young, middle & old. Respect businesses. Safer, better, cleaner neighborhood. Prospectious, clean, intergrated. Large increase in population. 2. Strip clubs and liquor stores closed down. Build the downtown (bring back Macy, JC Penny, Sears into our city. Bring more shoppign areas & stores such as Kroger, Walmart, Meijer, Kmart. Better dollar store such as Dollar Trees. Improve look of schools in area. Beautiful Dubi. A clean, well populated & safe city without crime & blight. For the neighborhood to be well-maintain without blight. Jobs in the city. Paradise. Dense. Eclectic neighborhoods. Vibrant downtown & thriving commercial corridors. Safer, cleaner, with reduced blight and reduced residential/commercial vacancies. High-performing public school system. Blight free and green gardens all around with rapid rail transportation throughout the city. 12-18 villages, organized & and with [illegible] their future [illegible]; planning & CDBG at local level; linked by transportation & commonly accessible green space. Cleaness, safe I would for my neighborhood to be a place where I can shop, walk and play. I would like to have everything that other thriving neighborhoods have. People working, kids going to school in their neighborhoods. A place where families can raise their children and young people have access to activities. Vacant properties cleared, rehabbed or replaced with modern structures. Well kept neighborhood. Jobs. Bring back the pride. No abandon homes or buildings. New homes built in the city. More black business. One of the most attractive cities across the nation. Like most large major city. Affordable homes, better services & business. Less crime. Quick police response & EMS. More recreation centers. Finding places to house the homeless.
Lively & liveable. Clean, with some new housing, well kept lawns. Improve adult & youth relations. Trim trees. I'd like to see neighborhoods set up like small villages with access to community centers and with organs of communication other than email maybe bulletin boards. Walkable, clean, green, attractive, vibrant, art and historical and cultural hub. Safety will follow because these activities will attract more investments & jobs. High population, people working. Several warehouses hiring people in plants that sell water. I would love if there was no homeless people. Better roads, no abandon houses or buildings. Vacant fields with plenty flowers. A vibrant integrated glowing city - Harversting bright, young, talented people for the future - AND - a functional, effective rail/public transit system. in 1-5 yrs Vibriant downtown - Neighborhoods w/ services - No vacant homes/businesses. Clean parks - recreation facilites/libraries opent to accommade working families. Expansion city airport. Expand shipping port. I would like a city with more retail. Build up the parks. Better schools. I would also like Detroit to have a technology base. Have new business want to relocated here. Better jobs, better service. The place to be for raising a family, safely. Greenways, industrial parks. State of the arts technology and infrastructure. The city is one of the most unique & gorgeous cities in the world. It requires upkeep, investment & growth, but I hope the appearance of the city doesn't change. A great city where people live, work & play and are not afraid to be here. With major restaurant & store chains within the city. Occupied neighbor homes, business, parks & recreation for youth. Major commercial chains. City airport availity. 80% working. I would like to see a city that is safe, has good schools, good public transportation and growing property values. Large well-cared for greenspaces. Excellent schools serving tight solid neighborhoods. In-city shopping centers. Walking & bike paths. Reliable public transportation. Restored Belle Isle, especially the conservatory. Cleaner and greener. A solid core downtown/midtown & riverfront surrounded by a "green belt" and then thriving neighborhoods. Well dressed neighborhoods without the blight. Parks for children & pets. Recreation centers so we dont need Livonia Rec. City streets better maintained. Lite rail. Skate parks. Putt golf. Big foot houses parks for youth to gather not basketball real red center. New school high tech not the status quoa. Alive and restored. Want Detroit to be vibrant and be fair - with all citizens who have been working to improve Detroit. Neighborhoods must be included in the plan. Existant housing (sales, fix up, blight prevention, police support) not burned, preyed upon. A green city with wind, solar & geothermal energy sources with a thriving garden & farmer's markets program. An artist mecca known all over the world with the city welcoming NOT hostile to all types of artists. Small farms with livestock in unpopulated areas. Large immigrants areas - Chinatown, African town, etc. I want Detroit to be a walkable city. Right now Detroit has two movie theaters and two bolwing alleys, we need more everyday entertainment. I would like Detroit to provide avenues for more business people. A city that would lead the country in racial healing, creating jobs, and coopperation between city, bussiness, churches, and resdent. A nice blend of Chicago and Detroit downtown and residential areas. A functioning, safe, sustainable, diverse city w/ less depending on fossil fueled transportation. Good employment opportunities, housing & educational system, & efficient, non corrupt government. Diverse, in age and ethnicities also in small business parks and community centers! Safe, clean, beutiful. Like New York or a very beautiful place. Clean neighborhoods. Well lit & safe neighborhoods. Abandon homes renovated/demolished. I would love to see our city the leader in alternative fuel and energy. I want to see my city florish in employment and good will towards everyone.
Chicago, IL. Brooklyn, NY. A beautiful place where all can live in good health, peace and unity. I would love to see a blossiming business community. More gardens, tech centers & gardens. A green city with jobs. Stable population of 800,000 residents. Excellent school systems. High quality neighborhood housing. Thriving business establishment with commitment to manufacturing enterprises. Ethnically diverse. Vital social amenities (restaurants, theatres, entertainment.) I like the concept of Urban Villages - centers of densely populated areas with strong commercial corridors surrounded by areas of parkland/farms/recreaction areas, etc. Like it did when I grew up in it, back in the 60's. Lots of green space. New work opportunities. Clusters of homes in villages throughout city connected by light rail. Thriving, prospering city. More diverse neighborhoods. More youth centered development & programs. Less blight; more gardens. I would love to see community organizations be the corner-stone of the city, with small-neighborhood-based government and cooperation being what holds the city together. I would like to see 100% graduation rate, urban gardening thriving, and new large companies providing jobs. A lot less crime & police come when you call them. Instead of not coming at all. Clean, service oriented, a place for youth development Beautiful, peaceful, people happy everywhere, all colors and nationalities, multiple places to go to, new houses in the place of old, torn, or burnt down homes. Vibrant, green, safe, with a million people, 0% unemployment, strong schools, responsive government. Local businesses in neighborhoods. 2. City environmental clean-ups (empty lots cut). 3. Being recycling of plastic, paper, glass. 4. Accessible services - doctors, grocery stores, cleaners, shoe shops, recreation centers for children and seniors. 5. Job center. If I am bless to be year in in 30 years I would like to see a city that I remember when I was growing up. A city where I was able to walk to school/store without being told take your brother/sister with you. A city where I can be proud to say I am from Detroit. A city where everyone respects the ground they walk on. A city where we keep it beautiful for ourselves as well as those who visit the city. With new look of business in neighbor Brightmoor A conglomerate of urban hubs, each with its own character surrounded by greenspace including 1-5 acre urban farms zoned for small animals. Lots of green space and vibrant places to live and play! Midtown should be a model. Quality education for all children without privatizing the public schools. The "garden" city as once known/communtiy enterprise/hands-on education/high rate of higher education completion Prosperous, useful in the national and international economy. Many options for transportation - not just car or bus. Hubs of multi-use zoning (houses, shops, etc.) within walking distance. Other areas more sparsely populated could have blight removed and be used for farming or manufacturing. Diverse. Livable. Thriving tourism. Thriving diverse communities. Bike paths for alternative transportation. A green city with low poverty and unemployment and an emphasis on utilizing and augmenting local talent, resources & skills for the benefit of ALL residents. Cleaner air, highly used green space. Mix of high density housing and greenways, bicycle lanes, transportation buses; no incinerator; required recycling. A laboratory for communities - building. Sustainable, safe and alive community(s) that have identities, diversity of people and an economny that allows for growth. Smaller (perhaps). Better services. Better schools. More diverse. More green spaces. More attractive to families. Lower income tax. More jobs in the city. Clean. Would like to see senior housing around GRDC Grandmont, Rosedale. The houses are getting to large for a lot of seniors. Clean. Good transit system. A good school system. Safe, attractive, & vibrant We would like a downtown with shopping and entertainment that is easy to get to. Excellent schools! Well maintained, low crime rate, more business, grocery stores & banks, quality schools.
Thriving & clean & safe The Emerald City. As good as is it used to look like. Repopulated, bustling metropolis A green city, a model where people live in peace, & where basic needs are meet locally: food, energy, & clothing come from Detroit for Detroiters. Good homes, schools, hospitals. A viable, thriving community where people and families will want to live and play. Like it looked 30-35 yrs ago when the auto industry More like an ideal vision of an american city which represents the industrial might and creative spirit of the nation. A city that "cares" about its people! Transparent & honest. Beautiful well-maintained homes and landscaping. Businesses throughout communities and people that take pride in their homes and communities. Diverse. Clean. Mass transit. Better living environment. 2. Education improved. 3. Crime rate down. 4. Stop city official corruption. A safe community! Blight elimination! Improved "available" transportation. Cleveland Development Prosperous, safer place to live. I would like to see a light rail transportation system coming from the suburbs to downtown Detroit. The global leader in green/sustainable manufacturing - to leverage our great infrastructure & capital assets in terms of existing, underutilized manufacturing plants. Think retooling during WWII. Diverse close knit community. A green, prosperous city - fully employed using the most advanced envrionmental design & processes, to the benefit of all. No longer listed by the EPA as an environmental justice high priority area. Plenty of parks, community gardens, bike trails, walking paths - vacant homes have been demolished to make way for green space and urban farms, there are street cars and/or light rail connecting all major parts of the city. I would like to see a city with all of its houses occupied, all of its high schools producing potential college students who would graduate & find wonderful jobs in the city. Stable homes and neighborhoods attractive to young families, professionals and retirees seeking an urban lifestyle. Public places well maintained (good lighting, regular trash removal, etc.) City dedicated to green living including mandatory recycling. Art community. Sustainable schools. Lower crime. Vibrant downtown. Neighborhoods more densely populated, large green spaces, prairies, urban farms, etc. The population of the city needs to be housed & educated in an amt of space more suitable than the entire 139 sq mi area. See comments from [name removed] I would like to smart uses for vacant land including partnering w/ Greening of Detroit for low maintenance landscaping (vs. wasteful mowing of parcels). Major demo delapitated business corridors & greening initiatives. Creative uses - farming (hoop) in vacant manu. bldgs, etc... With a population of 1 million or more again. Real public transportation options. Green space, quality schools, local businesses driving the economy. Improvements: Public health; Environment; Economic; Infrastructure; Transportation. Equity. I would like better public library for my community (Redford Branch). Well now, I'd love to see Detroit smaller (population) with tons of open space. I imagine Detroit as a vibrant urban community with art & cultural resources (opera, art institute, museums, symphony, gallerys, architectural gems, theaters, etc) but with parks, open spaces (fields); farming space; biking, walking spaces and many many other "green" based industries. We will be clean like Toronto with an active recycling program. What I mean by that is citywide recycling with an eye towards or a lead city city regarding zero waste. (This is a VIABLE economic development process - PLEASE PLEASE consider this. Imagine, if you will, a clean green viable peaceful Detroit!! There are numerous organization & people here who are passionate about this & willing to help move in that direction. I also see Detroit (like Grand Rapids) lead the nation in LEED building development. (& the incinerator is shut down permanently). Our water front will be a major attraction as one of the cleanest waterways in the world, esp in light of our active port authority (ie. clean water but also growth & economic development involving our water or waterway). We will trade via
our 2nd Canadian/US Bridge (the DRIC). Our school system will be one of the best in the state/nation. We will ahve empowered schools that control their own budget & must maintain the highest standards. Great walking, biking trails & really really good mass transit, including light rail Det-Flint, Det to Pontiac, Det to Ann Arbor, Det-Grand Rapids, Det-Mackinaw. Vibrent neighborhoods. The gateways to the city looking inviting. Jobs and education programs to get young people off the streets. I would like to see the city full of people, families. I would like for Detroit to have beautiful landscaped homes and surrounding areas, prosperous and flurishing communities, transportation system that works, a strong work force, enchanced education system Excellent mass transportation. Diverse community [age, race, etc]. Diverse business community. Strong school system. A green city with urban gardens, parks, small businesses, rapid transit, continuing education for adults, a well-developed school system, create housing communities. More populous. 2. More jobs. 3. Better city services. A self-sustaining diverse city with employment, transportation, and a quality education for all. Walkable, bikeable neighborhoods with amenities concentrated along major corridors with light rail, bike lanes (Jefferson, Warren, Grand River, Woodward, Gratiot) - Lots of green space & parks and lower density housing between these corridors. High density housing & commerical along main arteries w/ light rail. Quality services & public safety. Stable, diverse, neighborhoods, lots of green space, safe place to live and raise children. Good schools, good jobs. Population reorganized into denser neighborhoods with beautiful parks and much less crime, all connected by safe, effective public transportation. A more compact high rise city with open green space, parks and recreational areas within and between neighborlands. Strong, stable neighborhoods. Improved public safety. Growing population. Improved national public image. SAFE STREETS!! Detroit as the central business district for the metro regio. Mass transit that is reliable and efficient to provide access to destinations where residents need and want to go. Quality public education for all students. Active residential and commercial neighborhoods that create a more safe environment. a sustainable city. Eliminate SLUM LORDS Clean with decent, reliable, accessible compliant TRANSPORTATION & vibrant neighborhoods with beautiful universal public housing. Diverse people living together - lots of small businesses: Green energies; Excellent transit/transportation system. Vacant land used for food production/parks/safe areas for kids. Safe, clean, engaged politically, (more people voting) great schools, great parks, fee for Belle Isle Entrance 75% for Belle Isle, 25% upkeep of other parks - run by nonprofit. Viable neighborhoods with ample greenspace for recreation & gardens, and adequate infrastructure - lighting, trash collection, police protection, and viable/vibrant business/shopping districts nearby. Less blight, more public transit -> pedestrian friendly transit, same friendly feel more green space, increased feelings of safety on streets I would like to see the city of Detroit become a more fluid and consistent city made accessible to all demographics of people and one that provides effective health, safety, and community strength to its citizens. Smaller but better. A city with a population of at least 2 million that provides its citizens with great educational options, a feeling of optimum public safety, plenty of places to shop and eat, and access to public parks and transportation. Safe, dense, vibrant, growing, diverse & percolating with life, activity, great schools, quality dining options, night life & beach volleyball along the riverwalk!! (Import a few tons of sand, must I call Fay Nelson myself?! Where is the vision!!) Cleaner streets abandon homes rented out or sold occuped with tenants. Party stores cleaned up with no loitering on outside of stores. Billboards removed from street poles. Get rid of so many use car dealers on Joy Rd. Well maintained (clean), green, walkable, safe and stable communities with viable commercial, parks, and wide choices of housing. More business Mass transit. Try to get a Walmart in the city. Quality grocery stores. Shopping center. Better summer employment program for students in the city. Support to more Block Clubs. Create more community gardens for vacant lots. A city where people will want to come to as a destination.
A much smaller place with very little crime. An aesthetically pleasing, vibrant city with a high standard of living. Better then today. A place my children/grandchildren will be proud to say they live in Detroit. A clean environmental friendly city. To be like 40 yrs ago, every bldg with a open business. Be able to walk, and shop in my neighborhood and not be afraid!!! Green bike ways connecting Cottage Industries with Made in Detroit makers. 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. Mutti cultural-historcaly preerved homes/entire neighborhoods. Vancover Ontario (model) As a minimum, as it was 30-40 years ago (where I lived), tree lined streets, nice residential homes/neighbors, etc. Vibrant, taking care poor, strong neighborhood, excellent neighborhood schools, Airport & seaport - WPA 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 Clean, safety structures with lots of green 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. Thriving, united communities. A clean, vibrant, bustling, cosmopolitan city. Job center, beautiful, livable neighborhoods, greenway & spaces New homes, vital communities The majestic city I remember in the 1960's and 1970's. Cleanup of streets for safety and great innovation for green technology (recycling, mass transit, energy resources). More racial diversity! A forward thinking/moving city that can provide for its residents and be a model to other cities. Techology driven. A place rich in culture & arts. A city with a decent public school system. Plenty of libraries. Plenty of diversity. Much more greenspace, convenient public transpo 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. Like it did 30 years ago - Good safe neighborhoods with banks, grocery stores good public services and jobs! Smaller footprint, neighborhood businesses, great city schools, wonderful city services, more cultural institutions, full range senior housing (independent, assisted, memory-impaired, rehab, hospice) 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. Much cleaner and neighborhood focused. A major recycling plant S/B in Detroit. 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! 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. The way it looked in the early I would like Detroit to be both denser and greener in different parts. Most importantly, I would like to see the neighborhoods thrive. Similar to the way it looked in the early 60's but improved. Greater services for seniors - no taxes for seniors who own property Beautiful - flourishing, clean, well-populated Clean and maintained but with the same spectacular structures but better community services. 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. Well populated busy metropolis with well maintained parks and greenways.
Cleaner, smaller, with fewer to no dilapidated structures, modern public transportation, and business downtown that will generate some night life. "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. City of 850k people. Thriving downtown & cultural districts. Well utilized waterfronts. More parks/greenspace. The way I hear many seniors say it looked like 30 years ago or better. More tourist will help business downtown; new store fronts Downtown Detroit. Lots of Naturescape - forest - crops - farming Like it did 40 yrs ago. A place where people want to come for vacation. Some where we can be proud of, of course will a more current technology. Vibrant in the next 5 yrs and more walking and biking and mass transit a safe place to live, work and play. I would like the city to look better than it's ever looked in the past, which to me would be that the colorlines and socioeconomic barriers that have existed for far too long will be nonexistent and all citizens will view each other as family. The same as in 1950 1969 Clean, attractive, safer! Back to the future! More like it did 50 years ago - with business parks speckled between good schools, safe and clean housing, prosperous avenues, theatres, fruit stores, five and dimes, reminiscent of Toronto. Like Gong Dong Partok, Seoul, Korea A better educational system and jobs forcement. Very neat and clean. To create a viable community. To have a viable working class, schools in the neighborhood being interactive in the community with active churches & law enforcement. More density - light rail everywhere DRIB up & running, lots of traffic from the bridge b) Improved parks & trees c) Walkable neighborhoods d) A K-12 premier schools system (improved schools) e) Encourage & continue great medical center & Henry Ford Hosp MORE CIVILITY & COURTESY f) Detroit Symphony still a world renown orchestra g) Lots of music h) Continue improving the ethics of Detroit goverment & citizens. Strong association with SE Michigan including Ann Arbor. Prioritize Health Habits: goals: reduce mortality rate. Increase health habits in children and adults. Decrease at risk pregnancies. Great, clean, enjoyable, safe for all, especially children & seniors. Repaired older houses. Green space. New residents built within the style of existing houses. Brooklyn = cultural, racial, religious diversity A green friendly city with well maintained green spaces & roads. Housing maintenance programs support all residents. Businesses maintain their interior & exterior. A variety of consolidated neighborhoods with green ventures in between; reconstituted major roads with high density housing and mass transit. Summer walks, sitting on the porch, ice parlor in the neighborhood, fruit store again, I guess just good old fashion living Greener with trees again. People walking around downtown & more kids. (Sorry, but I didn't contribute in that department!) No trash anywhere. Mass transit using smaller buses if possible. Light rail access. Certainly more inviting than is presently. A destination city, vibrant, exciting, diverse, amazing A city that is supportive of a diverse (age, race, economic) population that meets the needs of this diverse pop. A city where the population is willing to participate in creating a sense of community. City that has no gov corruption. City with excellent public schools. Transparent & responsible gov. A green city/no incinerator. A greater metropolos than yesteryear! Several communities that have their own unique identity each would have be vibrant ie Hamtramck, Ferndale, Royal Oak & would be walkable It should be green, blight should be transformed into forests, parks, greenways, green & public spaces and new uses. Walkable neighborhoods should be developed. Existing, strong neighborhoods of single-family homes should also be reinforced w/focus on cleaning up commercial corridors and neighborhood amenities. Restore the neighborhood fabric. To be thriving city like Chicago. Technology-friendly with healthy residents that are actively involved in a safe city.
I would like for the downtown to look like Chicago w/very distinct individual communities. Clusters of dense, viable, diverse self-sustainable neighborhoods that can be accessed conveniently by rapid transit - not just light rail. Vibrant, lively - a great place to live , work and visit! And so taxing to live in! More regionalism! Multiple areas of population density with shops, stores and many green areas: parks, walkways, ponds. Walkable. Small active neighborhoods with a strong central core. Streets with a nonmotorized transit plan. Environmentally responsible [shut down incinerator] Pockets of healthy, dense residential and commercial development. Healthy greenspace connecting these areas to each other. Have a light rail system. More police offices. Improved bus system. Neighborhood business districts. 1-1.5 million people, legitimate transportation options, a school district that is not one of the worst in the nation. I think it is imperative that we have a strong, innovative school system. Also, we need to revitalize jobs. It is imperative that we ensure equitable access and opportunities for all Detroiters. Vibrant, safe community with greenways. Walkable communities with commercial corridors is a definite plus. Also, Detroit could invite other higher education schools to occupy in Detroit creating more universities. A place that is easy to traverse without a car. High employment rates (less than 9%). Walkable, bikable neighborhoods & business districts. Green. Safe. Prosperous. Smaller. Move small businesses/business in general. Walkable. Decreased crime. Cluster zones of residential areas. Greenways linking cluster zones. Urban agricultural development (wind & solar) and iniatives for residents to retool their homes to make them more efficient. More prosperous: less unemployment, better school system, greener, multicultural but predominately African American city. A community to be pround - with rebuild homes, school, assets in the community. Restore neighborhood watch. Healthy residential neighborhoods with access to shops and services. Productive & beautiful green spaces and bike accomodation. Fast and connected public transportation. Attractive industry parks w/classic and cutting edge businesses. Beautiful urban center - thriving - bikes, pedestrians, business, social justice, diversity A progressive city that is a great place to live for young and old and one that utilizes its resources (water, land, international proximity, manufacturing base, and world class healthcare) to its advantage effectively. Chicago Should have complete mass transit throughout the city & suburubs. Should be kept clean with accessibility to better & closer recycling facilities. More reasons for young people to learn to improve quality of life & jobs in the city. Vibrant and repopulated with people who are determined to be all that they can be as they learn and exhibit the Spirit of Detroit. I would like it to see it as a city that have evolved with the changes in technology, infrastructure and economic growth. A lot of our resources aren't being used. There is a lot of abandon homes that need to be destroyed. There is also a need for supermarkets that are attainable. Safe, repopulated, parks, transportation, grocery stores, beautiful schools, well lighted; clean; neighborhood community block clubs A clean and safe city One with better transit and police protection and more trees. Hopefully larger population, new housings and plenty of recreation sources. A city of opportunity that is safe, educated committed residents. Vibrant, businesses growing, education, citizen accountability. Self sustaining, vibrant, diversified, art filled, with cultural entities & activities, with stable livable neighborhoods where quality of life issues such as neat lawns, noise control & self respect and pride abide. A busy entertainment center downtown with IT Center as well. A mass transit system connecting Detroit & suburbs north, east and west. No abandoned buildings. More immigrant. Multicultural city. Job center Strong neighborhoods. No murders/gangs. A diverse community where all are prospering. We cannot have gaps in education, income or city services. Slightly higher population overall, thriving neighborhoods, beautiful green spaces between (clean up dying neighborhoods for this)
So far ahead of where it is now that my children don't believe my stories of "back in the day." Clean It's ok for Detroit population to shrink but stabilize at some point. I hope new dustries we don't know too much about now bear fruit and provide a great increase in businesses, jobs. Downtown and Midtown are vibrant - exicting places of education, culture. City has rebuilt service delivery system. A core of middle class has returned. Public education reform is nationally admired because all Detroit High School kids graduate and go onto college or specialized training. This has resulted in stronger neighborhoods all over Detroit. Detroit is known nationally as a wonderful combination of big city/small city. Walkable strong neighborhoods with good schools, accessible amenities, and connected by transit ([illegible] rail) Low lax and rebuild Detroit will be look good - after more people we will have more tax. We need people moved back to Detroit only job. To use resources and services efficiently. There seems to be very little effective public services versus cost being spent at thist time. A city of single family homes with all the necessities to live in peace & harmony. Revitalized and recreated. Improved neighborhoods with safety & good schools & policing for family growth Grow & take better of the neighborhoods. Without change, we could be the same or worse off. Multicultural. Agricultural cooperatives with Coop stores. Famer's market in different neighborhood with fresh fruits and vegetable. Like it did when I grew up here. Nice homes, cleaner, more access to parks that offer things for kids. Get rid of drug houses. I anticipate that Detroit will resemble a great port city. I see Detroit as a gateway into the Midwestern cooridor of the United States linking with the South, East and the Plains states of the country. This can be accompolished by providing and improving on the transit system that has begun in Detroit. Detroit is in the position to becoming the home of the mass transit system connecting all points of the United States with a high speed rail system. I am not a Detroit native, but as someone interested in the future of this country, I am very interested to see how Detroit emerges from its current state. I think Detroit has an amazing opportunity to create the first large-scale post-automobile metropolis. If Detroit can do this right it will serve as an example for the dozens and dozens of American cities that will experience decline soon due to rising gas prices and the inability for us to depend on the car as a cheap form of transportation.
I have seen various projects re: the future Detroit that appear to be promising the concept of a having several ""nodes"" within the city that all have access to public transit, all have schools, housing, retail, and parks. Detroit has the opportunity to bring in thousands of Americans who are fed-up with suburban living but aren't sure they like traditionally urban living arrangements where being close to shopping and jobs means being cramped and not having access to any open space. With the development of nodes surrounded by more open space) which Detroit has in abundance, people will be able to experience the benefits of urban living with easy access to open spaces." Lots of kids playing in parks and decent neighborhoods. Detroit doesn't have the squeals of happy kids anymore. We are the last generation of kids playing and parents being neighborly on the porch. Everyone is afraid and families are leaving the city for higher ground. Are we bracing for some sort of Armageddon? The schools are rotten and empty. The houses are falling down around our ears. We used to have the best yards of any city I visited. That is no longer the case because homeowners are afraid to tend their yards. We let the worst among us have free reign. Spend more money on Police and Fire first to rid the bad elements out and then bring people and families back in. Vibrant riverfront with shopping, dining, galleries and lofts. Revitalized commercial corridors on Woodward, Gratiot, Grand Blvd, Livernois and Washington Blvd. Strengthening of Boston/Edison, Indian Village, Green Acres, University, Arden Park, Southeast Detroit, Rosedale etc. and the redevelopment of neighborhoods surrounding those areas. Blight is like a cancer it starts small and spreads out, redevelopment needs to reverse this trend, identify the healthy areas, strengthen them and then start to rehabilitate the surrounding areas. Work towards connecting strong areas to each other. In demographics more middle and upper class citizens of all nationalities. I would like Detroit to be the only city in America where you can live in a house 10 minutes from the greatest athletic, entertainment, and cultural assets in the Midwest, but have an acre of green space surrounding your home, where you can live with nature, ride your bike, and enjoy a quiet lifestyle with good neighbors who care about their neighborhood. I would like to see the City model Chicago, but with our own unique Detroit style. Never lose our identity! strong-knit communities, ALL homes have ALL their windows, yards maintained, street lights on, kids playing in the street, neighbors not afraid to walk around the block, people better educated, the youth more engaged, Less liquor stores, more grocery stores, social services for the homeless and people with alocohol and drug problems. See previous statement. Regarding my hope for Det. Works results. Dense, walkable, eclectic, authentic - not like suburbia/Gernerica A diverse, culturally rich, and strong pedestrian friendly city. Greener, sustainable, other buzzwords. I'd like to see more emphasis placed in the nieghborhoods for parks, infastructure, lower costs which I would hope would lead to lower taxes. Schools should be adressed, but these are not fully under your control. I would like Detroit to look like any other big city. I.e. Chicago, Toronto, Windsor, Orlando, etc. A city that has a downtown to come to and do activities. A city to be proud of so you can say 'I'm from Detroit' and be proud of it. A city where other people want to come to because of the attractions, the people and the city. More industry, residents, and employment. Safe, educated, and green. Michigan needs a strong urban core in Detroit to attract and retain talent, which will in turn grow the city and the state into the future. We can do this by ensuring public safety, creating a strong school system, and rebuilding this city using green technologies and planning ideas so that it is ahead of the curve 30 years from now. Place a primary emphasis around investing in four primary arteries or corridors...1) Woodward to I75...2) Lodge to Grand River...3) Jefferson to I94 and 4) I94 to Micgigan Avenue. Investment dollars would be channeled into projects to extend/maintain transportation into and along these primary city arteries. Housing, transit and related services would also receive investment priority within these major corridors. Business investment within these corridors would be promoted with a variety of incentives. As quality of life, population density and resulting tax revenues are achieved within these priority corridors, then investment would branch out from within to corridors to areas just outside of those corridors.
Example: THe land mass between Woodward and I75 from downtown to eight mile. Light rail project up Woodward is a must. Emphasis is placed on relocating residents in blighted outlying neighborhoods thay are close to the corridor to within thr corridor. Enhanced city services are provided within the corridor, but reduced to the oulying areas. By preserving and enhancing this North/South corridor, connectivity to Northern suburbs is enhanced, offering city residents additional benefits. Same result for the East, West and Northwest corridors I identifed above. I would like to see light rail (or actually an elevated monorail) along not only Woodward, but Grand River, Michigan, Jefferson, and Gratiot avenues. We should put in Bus Rapid Transit immediately until monies can be assembled for a full light rail project. These corridors should have nodes of density like we find in Curticiba, Brazil and Arlington, VA, for example. We should have Detroit designated a regional center for the purposes of investor visas and encourage entrepreneurs from all over the world to come to Detroit to start businesses. We should turn vacant land into productive green space or living laboratories so that residents have access to nature. Perhaps we could identify culverted creeks to daylight and get Walter Hood to design the landscape around them. I know Toni G. knows what I am talking about. A metropolis diverse safe walkable, mass transit in all directions. Once again a great city not just the automobile capital of the world but a rebirthed giant 21st century city of ideas. Ideally, the city would have economically viable and sustainable neighborhoods that provided services that the currently are only offered by the suburbs (accessible commercial areas and grocery stores, etc). Each of these unique neighborhoods would have their own feel and energy but unlike the typical ethnic enclaves be multicultural and diverse. Families should be able to walk a few blocks to get groceries and other essentials instead of having to jump in a car. Laslty, the cultural gems that are underutilized by the region will again flourish and be recognized internationally. Imagine families planning vacations to Detroit to see the DIA, Belle Isle, and catch a game at a new Yzerman Arena. A vibrant city that will be a travel destination. There will be difficulty in obtaining housing because everyone will want to live here. The city won't shut down because the business day has ended. Booming, prosperous, urban, organic, and Detroit. Not like any other city on this earth. In 30 years I would like to see the city as a network of eclectic, vibrant, and interdependent neighborhoods that are linked through resources, labor, transit, and economic development. Each of these neighborhoods will have, and maintain, an identity of their own that has been empowered and cultivated through a strong, cooperative, and coordinated city government and non-profit sector. A place where people would talk about going to visit like people talk about visiting NYC or Chicago once you get people to want to visit the city soon enough people will move in and want to be in a place where they can enjoy life. Strong integrated and diverse communities with phenomenal public transportation, walkability, and local business. I'd like it to be very green. Both in ideology and appearance. I'd like it to be diverse. I'd like it if it were modern, but also with great respect given to its past. It needs to be easy to get around because it is big and I'd like it if it were productive. And it should also have bustling educational centers. "A diverse, neighborhood based city with a fantastic public transit system that allows Detroiters and suburbanites to flow seamlessly between communities. I would like to see the city shrink dramatically, as to allow the neighborhodds that do remain to have great schools and great commerce. I would like to see Detroit become the model for other cities and we need to trust the urban planners to create an environment where we can walk, ride bikes go to a good grocery store, hop on the train to go see the Tigers at Comerica. We also have to put aside old hurts and grievences and reach out to all, especially the citizens and governments in the suburbs to help us grow. Detroit is vital to the state and region and we need to take advantage of our position by leading by example: welcoming all who want to be part of the new Detroit." Entrepreneurial spirit with green lifestyles, just... not in Seattle or Portland but right here in MI.
Question 5: Additional Comments (302 responses)
Although technology is used the response time is horrible. What can be done better in the future forums to avoid angry disruptions is for the assistant to give the comment cards directly to the moderator and she/he hold them below the audience view (in selecting questions to answer) so that people of different cultures are not offended. And please don't make the assumption that everyone has internet access. Urban farming, Detroit beoming the "Green Acres" of Michigan - I doubt it. There must be a concerted effort between the Bing administration and the business community to bring some industry, green tech, and businesses here. There needs to be free job training available to have a workforce ready for the jobs of the 21st century. The city has to be percieved as safe for business/industry to locate to. There has to be a serious dent put into the drug trade that permeates the city and increases the crime rate. The mayor should have a say about the schools but not run the schools- he was voted in to run the city. Its a herculean task in and of itself to run the city let alone run DPS. There needs to be some major retailers brought to the city and major supermarkets. Please have crews to clean the alleys, from 6 mile - puritan on washburn of trees & shrubs - paper & trash Im currently relocating to Detroit, MI from Nashville, TN. I am a small business owner looking to lend a hand in helping redesign the city. My wife is a nurse at Henry Ford Hospital on West Grand. We are having trouble getting homes we found to purchase being appraised by the bank. Is anything you can do to help. Its sad that my family is moving here to grow a city, but cannot get a a loan approved (because of appraisals). We are middle class people who feel we are being done an injustice, Please call us .[phone number removed] I am afraid that too much emphasis will be placed on single family housing. We need to create more multi family housing options in the future. Dont try to save old houses that are contaminated w/ lead and asbestos. Tear them down and build new multi-family/duplex/two-family flats More "wisdom" and common sense in the enforcement of city ordinances. More direct 'grants' to individuals and organizations with proven track records, to fund developmental projects. Create a "socially responsible investment fund". (Help) Create an agency when people who want to live in Detroit (move into a neighborhood), can be connected to Detroit residents who own homes (or know of available home and are looking for new residents Clicker questions - Audience - How many are Detroiters: Some questions should be just for Detroiters? 5, 10-20,20-40, 40-60, >60 years Public safety and crime very important concern. Stolen cars also big problem!
Please contact me regarding the rehab program that is to be opened to nondetroit, public safety, workers. Detroiters should be first, Why reward deserters? Where is my stipend for sticking it out? Thank you. Consider lower taxes on income for Detroit residents - it is a disincentive. We need chair grocery & retail stores. Have police/fire/city employees all live here. Perhaps use incentives to entice other ethnicities into viable neighborhoods Pockets of sustainable "communities", w/ businesses one can walk to & transit to rest of city. Schools accountable to the student, parents - and cooperative rela. betw. them, teachers & communities. Schools: should be public with elected school board. Increase services to support students, teachers, and parents ( to be increased) - nurturing a learning environment, (health, mental, and social, special needs, mentoring, after school and tutoring progams) Should be 3 legged stool of coopoerative endeavor: parents and students, community, teachers and professionals. Diverse: all kinds that residents can shop @ for all basic needs. Encourage tourism and trade Any urban farming should be sustainable- organic - non chemical. Non GMO. The neighborhood framework created by CDAD could be utilized to help residents craft viable plans for their communities Reliable city services More upscale shops, fresh markets Clean, locally owned commercial/retail businesses, stores, state-owned bank Beautification of downtown Detroit, Belle Isle, Major streets A more cohesive urban design for the city - green, please I'm concerned about the proliferation of storefront churches on commercial strips. Are the zoning laws addressing the density of certain businesses (car washes, beauty/barber shops, etc.) Better services/safety, more recreational centers for youth. Improve or have more frequent drop-offs to recycling centers. More police protection right now. Imeadiately. Please do everything you can to get the Woodward Rail system up and running from Downtown to 8 mile as soon as possible If folks had the ability to earn a decent job that would resolve many problems Healthy environment, quality public service especially health transportation, real community input into planning process, use of tax $ Have you looked into the city ordinances regarding needs for parking spaces for start up/new construction businesses? If you are planning dense urban neighborhoods it will be difficult to achieve w/ the overwhelming amount of vacant parking lots
Yeswhat is the square root of two (2), rounded off to the nearest ten thousandth. I agree that which questions are to be read, or not read, are being screened :-( DWP should be sure to plan for a comprehensive approach to community development, schools, housing, commerical development, safety, elimination of blight, senior services, open space and bike and public transportation Detroit could lead in evolving new transportation options and thus increase businesses and employment opportunities Thanks None of our goals can be met if home values decrease and real estate taxes remain high and car an d house insurance ar redlined Low housing values due to foreclosure, over inflated appraisals resulting in the housing market crises. What are solutions to decline in city service conditions, (What are solutions to) unity within communities I was born and raised in Detroit. I have raised my family here. Lower density isn't the problem, lack of education, govenmental integrity and transparency or the lack of it, is a problem. It is detrimental to place the burden of redevelopment on an uneducated, under-employed populace.I believe in Detroit. I pray that the Detroit Works Project is a real effort to improve this city. I am glad I came to the meeting tonight, it was very informative. Unfortunately they enemy used people to be disruptive. We must keep them in our prayers. I graduated from UDM. Colleges and Universities should be adapting Detroit schools. City leadership should be aggressively marketed to youth. Foreign companies for investment. Constant dumping on Thatcher (a side street) between Southfield and Asbury Park - This street is often impassable. Can this be stopped? Clickers = data collection. Also - secret ballots. NO MORE CLICKERS We all have a lot of work to do. Thanks for all you are doing. Keep DWP website current with meeting locations and times. More neighborhood workshops, it's hard to have people in the community kow that they have be listened to, and their concerns heard. Slide presentation hard to read, some slides. I can't spell Restore and support funding for Northstar CDC. They have built single and multiple family homes south of Puritan, which has stabilized the area. Would love to meet with Detroit Works/City of Detroit staff to leverage resources that may best serve the residents of Northwest Detroit Northstar
Stop thinking "top down"; start thinking "bottom up" to identify sustainable growth for neighborhoods. Include (limited) open discussion to complement the electronic reply given that some residents may be intimidated by reading and/or technology and want to interact more. Brightmore Alliance would like to work with Detroit Works to implement plans to shrink and transform Brightmoor I want to see a corruption free government that employs modern, efficient business practices. Too many non profit associations getting free land Please do not be afraid of being bold. There are a lot of people that support the effort. Just use common sense. Transit doesnt pay for itself and dont expect it to however it it necessary. Keep in mind simple solutions to big issues, express busses Merger of services with suburbs (busses), P.S. when will temple between John C. Lodge and Third reopen? Don't become to restrictive allow people to be creative try and attempt new creative endeavors. Allow people to do things that can have an impact Limit red tape in general, business, development, taxes, etc. Although uncomfortable allow people to speak. Though we do not live in this cluster, my partner and I plan to attend multiple meetings to gauge the residents feelings of redeveloping their city Recently moved from Midtown, dont know my new neighborhood well. Services need to be provided not as an investment but as an obligation.If you plan to ghettoize the city and then prioritize what services we receive and eliminate less "important" services then the old man is right, that this is facist. Dave Bing has gotta go! Now! Seriously.
Good regional public transportation, NO private security companies needed for any neighborhood; local foods in neighborhood stores; Stop thinking "top down"; start thinking "bottom up" to identify sustainable growth for neighborhoods. Your multiple choices do not allow for other ansers. I often chose what I did not really I think- Why not allow audience participation to create "other" answers. You ask for choices among your chosen options! This is not "community input".You ask for a prioritization among things that are all necessities! It is unreasonable to think of chosing one only. As a commissioner, I would like to see the Detroit architectural assets preserved and marketed. Needs to be more active and original solutions for the preservation of the cities buildings. Fewer rules, easier funding, quick turn around using design charettes. It was a nice meeting. You should have them every day So far all I have seen is the current administration taking care of everyone but its citizens. I heard there was and still is a 30 yr. plan in place fot fix up from downtown to Grosse Pointe Areas on the East and from downtown to the Blvd areas on the west side. If this is true as it appears to be, then the current administration is not for the betterment of its citizens and are allowing others to determine what is best for Detroiters. All public safety employees should be residents of the city. Save & perfect the Ford Auditorium. Create an experience Detroit Music Center Much of the vacant land throughout the city should be used to grow soybeans and corn to be sold to bio fuel companies, this would create jobs (Green jobs) Transportation - Why not down size the buses, they are huge and only carry a few passengers on the routes - reduce the size of the buses? Won't that save money? I love the city I would like to know why there is so much talk about regionalizing COBO and DWSD, but the land use focus is only Detroit. If you are going to induce people to relocate, why not bring people and institutions in from the suburbs. I am very concerned about the Mayors comments about inducing people to move by cutting back on services in certain neighborhoods. The response I heard tonight to this question indicates that this is indeed the plan- to only invest in certain areas, I find this an unacceptable concept in a democratic society. It is the responsibility of our public officials to seek to meet the needs of ALL residents. Is the farming project part of social security reform where I have to pick crops to get my check? How much tax money was spent to send the Detroit Works
people to Europe. How much tax money is being spent for the Detroit Works Project. Please fix street lights. Congratulations, love the survey electronic system. Thanks. This is very depressing! Highest rate of cancer and heart attack?! WOW! This meeting is a waste! To fix EMS, a strong mayor is needed to pick a non-corrupt fire chief. And reliable statistics. How much money are you taking from Matty Maroun? First and foremost our children learning has the biggest impact, not only for the City of Detroit but everyones future gain. I am a homeless person try to get my disability social security. What do we do when things are happen, I and others need to get help to the homeless. I am Hispanic. S.W. Detroit is a growing community maked up of a very diversity population. We need a way to better bring these organization together. Used clicker 57 for most of the questions and 58 towards the end. Q - What is being done to interface w/ the suburbs - attempts to give incentives to businesses & developments in burbs incentives to move to city to create mutual accountability, resource sharing, partnerships. The second question on the clicker screen seemed way too vauge. Need more specificity not what people want but instead, what are the day to day frustrations ppl currently experience, where jobs currently are, etc. instead of asking ppl to draw conclusions - reality of life in diff zips, etc. Community engagement can always be improved but overall that a good meeting. Thanks. There were two photos in the power point that were credited to other orgainizations; however, they are photots from our organization (UNI). The photos are from our programs. It's only the end of January and DMC under Vanguard is already closing programs that served uninsured and turning them away. What happened to the 10-year commitment? You need to do a better job of advertising these meetings.If your staff are going to sit on the stage, tell them to put Blackberries away. I do appreciate your efforts to get input from and share info with residents. God bless your good work.
Well planned meeting! Suggestions! 1. Font of print on map/graphic slides nees to be larger - hard to read. 2. Volume of mike too loud much of the time. 3. Have more than 1 presenter for plan, power point, questions & answers, etc. 4. Panel members should STAND and identify themselves to answer Qs. Oakwood Height. What is there area that this includes. Like from where to where. My organization would like to be involved in the outreach for the Chadsey Condon area and Southwest Detroit. You should read the entire questions submitted. Please do not underestimate the intelligence and value of your constituents. You owe yourselves to them! Very disappointed in the amount of Hispanics that DID NOT participate in this meeting so important to Southwest Detroit!! [illegible] *Needs to have more welcoming spirit, leadership to immigrant community (ie. COME TO DETROIT!!) *More services online, ability to pay online. *Curbside recycling, better shopping. I love this city. Please give me more evidence to back my claim. The DRIC (Detroit River International Crossing) will be located in our community. We are fighting for the protection of the residents and busineses which will be affected with the new bridge. Our community is concerned about: New negative impacts and increases in negative cumulative air quality impacts Establishing effective truck routing and support for diesel emissions reduction programs. Upgrade the Wastewater Treatment plant to eliminate outdated incinerators and dewatering systems that produces high odors. Enforce violtations that are harmful to public health and quality of life, such as at Systematic Recycling and local scrap yards and for illegal dumping. Commitment to fostering green industries/businesses and best practices strategies to assit our industrial community to be green leaders in their industries. Secure contaminated sites clean up and encourage clean use redevelopment. Provide home repair program for all homes negatively impacted by adjacent industry and transportation infrastructure. Emphasize early response to vacated buildings to save for future use. Provide green buffering between negative land uses. Commitment to local job training and hiring for all new developments. The Latino community seemed low profile at SW Detroit Meeting. I would have expected more leadership & participation from the dominant culture here. New bridge construction planning needs to be a priority.
We need to bring easy life to Detroit. There are no gyms, large chain groceries. We have no Targets, Walmarts, etc. You claimed you want to demolish "blight areas" and smaller (one-house) neighborhoods and turn it into farmland because you have "no money" to fix it or provide services, yet you "find money" to renovate plush MGM buildings for police HQ, renovate Guardian building for city/county offices - you have corporate investors for this project and others. Your lies are so transparent they are shocking, as your dictatorial "solution" to managing the city. If this is all you can come up with = destroying neighborhoods and installing flatlands (probably for corporate development rather than "corporate farming") you should follow the #one corporation (General Motors) & file bankruptcy - they did & they are strong now. Blocks of homes have been purchased and torn down (Liddesdale/Pleasant). Are there plans to take over additional blocks - specifcally Liebold? What incentives will we get to move? Is this part of Det Works Project or separate initative? I'm pleased that Mayor Bing is being "pro-active" in planning for our present reality - and so, creating a better and sustainable future for our city. I'm more concerned with the Fort & Schaefer corridor than the Vernor corridor. "Downriver" Make all mortgage and bank keep their property in our community. For the question vote period, al these needs are important. Clean air in 48217 is very important. How can you get the neighbors to get there front & back yard cleared of an the blight. St. Anne & Chipman - both sides. Get your next meeting notices prior to meeting. Presentation would have been better if print on screen was larger and if color codes on screen had been explained (ie. If an area was purple rather than green, what did this mean) How can we help? Someone should announce local organizations needing volunteers. Require that rental properties be insulated & weatherized so that low/moderate income will have funds for living expenses beyond rent & utilities. It seems to me that the questions are formed to get a certain response and not allowing an answer that is not "forced" to fit the answers you want! Please allow for more "open" process regarding the interactive questions.

What impact will this project have on taxes, and insurance(s)? They are killing the community! Any statement of plans for current residents? Fix city services - lights out - repairs to property Could vacant lands be used to support & sustain residents living? Solor panel or wind farms to subsidize energy costs. Parks that promote public health while offering access to city history & attracting tourism on industrial history of city. Thank you so much for taking the time to listen, plan & carry on our (attendees) suggestions. I believe that neighborhoods have been starved at the expense of the downtown. This has lead to reinforcing poverty in neighborhoods. What is really important is to insure that thei plan doesn't continue to deepen that inequality. This means that an affimative action approach needs to be built in! Just a thought - In all of the panelist's answers, they never said anything to empower residents to take action - Every single answer is top-down/wait for change to happen through Detroit Works. Think outside of yourselves - you have an engaged, captive I have repeatedly tried to talk to the mayor to no avail. I helped campaign even road on the bus with him I have and still is helping people get into new homes how can you help me see and tell him this. The Dequindre Cut is also a closer place to where I live for a safer, pleasant walk. No. Thank you for a very informative presentation. We appreciate all that you are doing. You are very thoughtful and intelligent in your planning and presentations! Don't privatize our public services or public schools or public utilities!!! Need city to come to are! (CDC meeting) Come to ar CDC meeting or help! Work with us, not against us. Michigan state laws and statutes in regards to driving are not very good for the people or the state. They should look at what other states do. Detroit Police Department are nice. I think the Detroit television is a good idea for the citizens to know the city workers. The chief of police, Sherif Goodbee, is a very nice man whom holds standards and accountability for his officers with the intent to serve the community and makes them feel safe. I also appreciate his volunteer involvement with the youth. He has been an example for others and his caring
attitude makes people feel safe and builds trust between the citizens and the police. Other cities don't have this. In cities like Seattle the police have the attitude it is them against the citizens and many innocent citizens have been injured and killed without accountability. I would liek to suggest to Attorney Eric Holder of the federal government to look at Detroit Police department as a model for a possitive example for other cities which experience police abuse. I <3 the Live Midtown Campaign. Not sure if it is related to Detroit Works but its brilliant. We need to get more hope on the news. There is a significant lack of coordination between Detroit Public Works especially the traffic engineering dept. - and DDOT. Please consider ways to help inter-departmental coordination among these and other departments. I recommend that you host smaller neighborhood meetins - meet w/ block clubs or @ non-profits that are connected to residents. Otherwise you will leave out so many important voices. It is quite clear that there is no serious consideration being given to a vision of Detroit as a truly green city for the 21st century. The idea of "sustainable" seems to apply only to the economy. Take a look at what Cleveland is doing to truly engage the community in becoming a green city. I have real concerns about how people will be "relocate" or "moved" to increase density. I cannot imagine any kind of incentive great enough to move someone from their home. If people are told/asked to relocate how will the city help them to do so? Finding a new home, packing, physically moving, etc. Especially those who are elderly or physically disabled. Focus on transit, be inclusive to all, end corruption, and educate the children. It is pathetic how uneducated the general population is. We need to fix this problem before we can think about growing. I would like city recycling collection to be a priority. Other things are certainly more important but this is an absent city service which frustrates me. I realize this is a loaded comment, but I feel we need to provide intensive rehabilitation of naighborhoods which lack education, health and social services to help the most challenged residents/neighborhoods become active members of our community. Focusing solely on bringing population in will not address the issues that pluge communities where these "new members" will not be choosing to move. I hope we will not "ghettoize" areas or people for being too far gone. The Food Policy Council needs to pass a city food policy. I'd like the city to support Detroiters working on food security for the city and beyond.
The language of most questions posed tonight is very vague & potentially misleading. The concepts presented in some questions seem inaccessible for many, need great explanation. In other words, the "opinions" are not real as we don't know what we are voting for. It is very alienating for non-Christians to open public meetings w/ prayer by a Christian minister - but common in Detroit. I hear people say "then don't come" regarding my own (Native) & other (especially Muslim) communities but you are not inclusive when you do this. It then feels like your invitation is not truly welcoming to all residents but only those who share your religion - & it feels like state-sponsored religion. What a disappointment - we are an "other" in an are with many of "us" - Native Americans. Again, very alienating probably for Arab Americans as well. We are the Invisible Minority tho, if you check census data, a great number of the state's Native Americans reside in Detroit. Please put yourself in our place - an uncounted "other" in our own community despite having been here before anyone else arrived. I'm an "other"!!! LOL. "I'm Native American" Senca, Malis, Ndowjaba I would like to see transperancy in the activities of DEGC. Please quit permitting strip malls! Detroiters need to embrace the creativiity of its residents. They are resilient fighters & everyone has a lesson to give and a story to tell. I think we should focus on strong neighborhoods & create strong connections between them, growth will follow those paths. Deal with the trash dumped on vacant properties. If you have been following this process, this meeting is fairly useless. The questions & allowed responses are stilted and I don't believe that they are relevent. Fairly disappointing so far 6:46pm. Question session is a little better. Thanks for including me, but this was only a little helpful. Really not very informative. Keep urban farming a viable option. Would love to see the arts involved in the process/project. Concentrate on the basics: public safety, education & blight. I dropped off a 15 year old young man at his house last week after a community meeting and then drove by 5 vacant houses on his block and the next. This breaks my heart and has to be remedied. Kids & their well-being must be front and center in this process.
The bus system is not so bad, in the city, it's when you try to ride the bus out of the city limits that you have a problem. Solution - eliminating the need to leave the city. Improve jobs and shopping in town. Strengthen code enforcement w/ businesses and property owners. Residency for city employees. Save repairable homes and demolish dangerous blds.. Access to high-quality education will be vital for the city's future. While making land use and transportion decisions, I hope the location of existing highperforming schools is taken into account. Focus more on working with the entrepreneurs that are alread here and wanting to stay/start up in Detroit! Affordable space needs! Please re-instate Community District Councils so that local residents have review & formal advisement authority regarding redevelopment in their own neighborhoods. As mentioned on my question card, I'm a proponent of "right-sizing" Detroit if done w/o violating human rights. I would like to see more guidance about what Detroit's future industries are going to be, Are we manufacturing? Green manufacturing? Arts & entertainment? Something else entirely. Detoit also doesn't operate in a bubble. What, if any, communication and/or cooperation has taken place w/ the surrounding cities & counties? We should reannex Highland Park & Hamtramck. I've heard too many times it's "not our problem," but it really is. Those two "cities" are really just two more de facto Detroit neighborhoods. If we're rebuilding our city, we should bring them along for the ride. Too many strip clubs, bars & scrap yards, pawn shops draw large retailers away from wanting to come to Detroit. Need to be fair in compensating seniors in their homes if you give them incentive to move to another neighborhood. They have put in lots of money over the decade to keep their homes. Let's enforce the laws that are on the books and stop peoples from gathering together and lottering. In order for Detroit to progress we need GOD FREARING leaders and citizens. I know or hear that quality services from emergency 911, police calls, fire dept are improving. That you continue to work hard at these areas in Detroit. Would like to see bulk picked up monthly. Individual resident block plowed. Police & EMS service improved (response time right away!) The neighborhood needs clean safe streets - open libraries & parks.
I would like to be notified when block grants are available for minor home improvement for home owner. Can a representative come and talk to us about this grant? Detroit Works Project planning needs to be clearly/meaningfully linked to current/future invetment in public/private schools. Schools will be key to attraction/retention of population and labor force development. I don't know if it has been considered, but it might be worthwhile to take/conduct this kind meeting/format in a random sampling of public school assemblies/classes in order to get sufficient Detroit youth feed and to stimulate their short/long term interest the future planning/development of their "communities" and Detroit. If more youth are interested/involved, maybe the rest of their families/peers will follow. This will help offset the fact that 12% of today's turnout was <34 yrs of age. Searching grant information from the city. There is little access to parking on Livernois. How can this issue be addressed and remedied? This significantly limits access to businesses on Livernois. People are leaving the city for loack of basic municipal services - insufficient ambulance & police services. Improve in these & other areas, and maybe the people will either stay put or move back. Have city wroker live in the city. Make property owners take care of vacant property. If I need to move now can the city purchase my home NOW. Like to see tickets issued to home owners who leave garbage containers on streets & front yards. Develop a rent zone. Eliminate property owners and renter living in the same area. How much would it cost to move whole houses out of blighted areas and into viable neighborhoods? Many would be happy with this idea. I remain concerned that as we attend these meetings, the city & the DEGC "dump" and "approve uses" which undermine and are counter productive to our quality of life and ability to carry out our neighborhood visions. The wording of the questions in a way seemed tailored to residents of the city of itself. But it's also important for suburban residents to feel included (though that is a daunting difficult task) Very strong need for bilingual personnel, especially in emergency services, ie police, 911, hospitals - [illegible] office, etc. Keep up the good work! Don't give up on the northeast side of Detroit.
Thank you so much and God bless. If there are any volunteer opportunities available I would really love to help. I would like to become involved in this great project, in moving Detroit forward. Detroit will soon embark on a large-scale migration of its residents from sparsely populated areas to vibrant, denser areas. I hope that planners seriously consider using a "pull" process to accomplish this migration, on possible pull system could consist of the following characteristics: Identify housing stock that is in good condition but vacant. Give community groups access to the list of such housing stock within their boundaries. Encourage community groups to hold "open community" forums directed at recruiting folks from the sparsely populated areas to their community. This would make the recruited people feel welcome and wanted. Very unrealistic to imply that Detroit's population can or will increase in the next 10 years. We should embrace being smaller and better! I would appreciate a follow up regarding my concerns bmwii429@aol.com. We need to attract others citys residents to want to come to our city. Address crime issue fully and truthfully with love for all the citizens. It has been allowed to run rampant for years and not given equal, unbiased protection. Fires & crime existing housing rampant. Lower taxes and the fight the red lining from insance companies. Detroit needs to stop try to attract new residents and work on keeping residents. Also those group that are trying to help make the neighborhood better will be able to come to Detroit Work for resource to do there jobs. I really would like to see anchor stores in strategic areas of Detroit (ie. Target, Macy's, Von Maur, Wal-Mart, etc.) For purposes of analysing your results one question to ask is one to determine # of neighborhood residents & non residents in the audience. How are you planning on retaining the current residents in Brightmoore? Much better mtg than what was run @ Word of Faith in August! I praise the mayor for this forum. Utilize those of us who have the experience to reach our youth. None of these statements reflect the position or opinion of WARM Training Center. These should be televised. Please post questions & responses on yoru website. Why didn't you address the "tough choice" of selecting neighborhoods for down-sizing? Don't pitch cutting property taxes - you offer something unrealistic. This is a false listening process. I am totally unconvinced that you have any genuine plans to incorporate community feedback & input. Why are
services in Detroit so expensive? If density in Minneapolis is only 2.8 people/acre vs. 9.0 in Detroit but services are cheaper per capita, either Detroit is doing something wrong, they are doing something right, or a combination. The city needs to investigate fraud, no-bid contracts, kickbacks, and other forms of corruption & prosecute the violators if you want to bring down service costs. Where is the non-profit & business sector on your task force? If you plan to attract new businesses, you should require/incentive hiring & training Detroiters. Please plan to use the enormous purchasing power of the city & schools to support local businesses - require/incentivize purchasing from local suppliers. The format of the presentation and the voting options are very generic and open to diverse interpretations. Developing strategies from the voting patterns can be either manipulative or miss the mark entirely. The questions were way too broad & "fuzzy." They could be interpreted in way too many ways. The choices were impossible to make. Get a grocery store in Brightmoor like Kroger, Spartan I am trying to buy the empty lots on either side of my home and have faced many road-blocks. The staff at the city P&D department are unfriendly. It has been difficult to pin down who's hands the land is in, the city or the county, how much I will have to pay for the lots, and what the process is. It should not be this difficult. There are also no applications available online, and very little online information is available. It would be nice if all this were easier and cheaper. All I want to do is build a garage and a garden. When will the protests begin because all I've heard is talking. I'm tired of talking. Thank you for for asking for input from residents. 1. Repair streets. 2. Pick up trash. 3. Help folk clean alleys by having trucks or containers available. Alleys are dumping grounds for folk who live inside/outside city. Hope to get new ideas to work on neighbor work areas in Detroit, too clean community block with trash. We are heading for a post-oil society when local work, local food production will ensure sustainable communities. We need freedom to come up with houses off the sewer grid, powering energy, keep farms with chickens, rabbits, bees, fish. People need to be able to buy adjacent land to start farms without getting bogged down in paperwork. We can attract young environmentally concerned people if we all them to live their lifestyle of sustainablity out! Give them land and Seeing the high heart disease - healthy food, outdoor
activities for all ages such as gardening, walking and biking. Investment in education should include trade training, green & food jobs, entrepreneurship. I love living in the D! Keep residents apart of the solution. It's exciting to see and participate in the changes coming to the city. I think tourism could have a major impact if the city could turn around. You are doing a great job in communicating some tough issues. The city needs to MANDATE recycling by ordinance, residential & commercial, together the value of the waste stream, to create jobs, clean the environment, and meet the state goal of 50% diversion. How about an ecovillage - off the grid housing that will be model for the neighborhood, city and region. Thank you DPW for your great bulk pick -up and clean up of illegally dumped items 2/14/11. Thank you for the large number of demolitions in our neighborhood - we have plans to make several more gardens. Look at density in terms of innovative interractions not just housing. Detroit Police has developed an initiative "Operation Safe Passage"; subcommittee to find alternatives to exlusionary discipline in Detroit public schools. This is a proactive measue to decrease; the dropout rate, delinquency & the crime rate. Now is the time to be bold. Don't let whatever we do get watered down by too much compromise. Thank you for doing this. It is long overdue. Thank about an "urban homesteading" plan. There is a movement in the area to open a free dental clinic. A builiding is needed. How can we find one in the Brightmoor area near Lahser & Fenicore for a low or no cost. I am not a resident. My stake in the neighborhood relates to the needs & desires of our parishioners at Christ the King. Stout Park needs to be mowed more frequently in the summer. This past summer, it was not safe to go to the park because it was not mowed. Kids could not play there, adults could not walk, jog on the track. Recycle = get $ for recycled items - becomes income. Have trash containers put on one side of the street so truck has to go down street once. This would cut costs. Actually five residents who contribute to blight by putting out bulk items early or put illegal items out for bulk pick up. Those who put out bulk items after the pick up. Please put legends to the slides @ the top of the slide. They are not visible (block by heads) at bottom. Recycle education.

I think that is good that the city come back to the people. I don't not understand the light rail transit. Good show! We will not have tax paying residents until we have a clean safe city. 1. More grassroots community groups to participate in keeping com clean and safe. 2. Stop strip clubs Det needs a better sense of decensy. City workers stop their corruption. I'm getting older, please improve our situation sooner while I'm living! I know a number of renters that has asked if there will be an opportunity for them to purchase empty homes at a reasonable cost. This will save some of these homes from eventual demolition! I would like to see new construction of townhouses & condo's with city regulations on the property upkeep. Get members of CDAD involved formally in Detroit Works. Meet w/ Curt Metzger! Out of the ashes. There is no contradiction between a clean environment and prosperity - the new future Detroit must move energetically toward "green." The city needs an ordinance for mandatory recycling, both residential & commercial, in order to capture the job potential & economic value of waste stream. We need an ordinance for mandatory recycling!! We need to make it attractive (financially) for those in the burned out aras w/ 1-2 homes on a block to move. Our neighbors in much of Brightmoor are prime examples! See comments from [name removed] LOVE DETROIT Work in Detroit, but live in Hamtramck. Did not answer any neighborhood specific questions - only city wide. Can Detroit Works help us keep up & put the best people in our neighborhood if the is a relocation plan. Can DW help us preserve our historic neighborhood & community house @ 18445 Scarsdale. The city needs more big grocery stores and retail stores. I don't like having to put my money in the suburbs for daily necessities. The school superindent need to be in charge of the money & education plans. I know we can be great. I've lived here my entire life absent college days. I've remained though I could have left. I love Detroit. I am excited about this
project as I feel the opportunities are endless. One more thing - great jobs; small biz dev & really good food/restaurants would be part of my vision for Detroit 2030. If you move people out of a neighborhood and then build a new housing in that same area, will those people get a chance to move back in that neighborhood (in affordable housing) Cast a wider net to get more diverse opinions. Do PSA's on radio shows, commercials, local news shows, etc. What's being done to lower the cost of property insurance Also increase diversity by attracting immigrants from across the planet. Attract diversity by age, education, race, etc, etc. Be open to ALL (all religions, gay/lesbian, artists, etc, etc.) I really appreciate the opportunity to be a part of this process and having attended the first session at this facility am happy to see that you have taken the feedback and improved your process. I liked the stats provided and the voting on priorites.
I think the questions seemed to miss some possible solutions/points of view by not addressing how Detroit should work with the greater metropolitan region. I also think that the questions should have asked more questions asking about [illegible] options issues such as transportation and jobs will not be solved by Detroit alone. The Mayor promised to keep a close watch on the para-transit prog./service since Enjoi took over in Oct 2009. We are tired of the sub-standard service. We need qualified personnel, compassionate and educated on the ADA laws and right of persons w/ disabilities. We also need public service announcements on service animals, inclusion and responsibility of accessiblity & accomodations in our community which will better serve all citizens. AWARENESS will aid in quality of life for all. News about what's great about our schools, success news. I would like to see the Detroit Works Project get more community input in smaller settings than these large community forums, perhaps representatives from each neighborhood. We need a return to bulk garbage pick up. Reliable electricity & public lighting are essential. Bureaucracy is a burden. Keep up the good work! Consider a section on the website for citizens to share ideas to revitilize the city. Most citizens do not lack ideas but it seems rare that new ideas that benefit the populace emanate from the city as it relates to entertainment. I'm tired of taking the youth I work with for things like Laser Tag, Go Carts, Batting Cages, etc. Also if it remains to be difficult to attract "big box" retail to prime real estate locales in downtown & mid-town, empower small businesses, boutique retail, & non-chain restaurants to occupy these spaces. Downtown Fort Lauderdale is a perfect example of this (Las Olas Blvd specifically). City customer service is really bad. All city employees should be sent to customer service training. Learn how to talk to customers who ask for service. Please make an effort to better communicate DWP progress and the measure of support (opposition) for the process. PR is still needed. We know longer have knonks open for students & adults. St. Stephen is the only known community center within 5.1 mile area of 48204/48210. This neighborhood & city cannot survive unless we - that means city departments, state officials, judicial branch of government and citizens take care to protect its tax paying residents of the city. It is extremely important to attack the crime problems of the city, especially the mid-level crime that is decimating the vacant residential - in particular - structures in the city &
noticeably in this - that is the WACO neighborhood. This project in my opinion should be put on hold - on the backburner - until the present day problems are tackled. This is reality and I feel it much be dealt with before a idealistic future is addressed. Need help to clean up our neighborhood A lot of the questions that we were asked was about the vision for Detroit. If we don't get ahold of the crime there won't be a Detroit Research bus transit for Woodward and other arteries. Cheaper than rail, faster than bus. Get the land out of inventory and into any private hands that will pay the taxes. Need 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. The 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! Get 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. Bundle parcel sale in based on value & large volumes. Please enforce the codes and ordinances currently on the books! Historic and general as well! I really was disappointed with the questions/answers on the project. I have a proposal for retaining residents and rehabilitating our good housing stock. Concern for people who have to move and can't afford it. Schools that are effective, and safe. Parks that are well maintained, where activities are provided for residents, both young & old. Subsidized housing for creative people, such as artist, writer, musicians and the like. Allowing tax credits & incentives for taking abandoned apartment builidings for creating work and residential space. Concern about seniors. Look as if seniors are being driven out of Detroit. Regarding housing & jobs. Thank you for involving citizens in this process. Part of old Redford sold to Redford; Part of the former Fairview sold to Grosse Point Park; etc., from which they came!! De-annex!! As 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. Also, 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. Please 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! One last gripe: A city with buses that are consistently 25 minutes late is not a city of the future. That's all! Thank you for having these meetings! In 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. The 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. Plan to have more intergenrational events for the youth & seniors. Find a way to use E. DOMAIN to purchase MGM for fire & police adm office!! Thank "u" General funds - what departments fundle their income to GF. The Detroit police officers need to be trained on the laws & ordinances covered by the Dept of Administrative Hearings.The gentleman from the Dept of Transportation is uninformed about quite a few areas. Specifically in regard to historic property/neighborhoods. If there are wider opportunities for individuals to become involved with Detroit Works, I would like to know! I 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. 1) Be bold! Come up with a plan based on data/density 2) LISTEN to the community - take to heart grassroots comments and efforts SEE BACK for map [note: individual has drawn a map on back of card depicting nodes within city accompanied by the following text] NODES/VILLAGES are necessary to concentrate resources. Open areas for alternative land use - farming, renewable energy. Work with the Detroit Land Bank! Encourage older/long-time residents to welcome the young (white) DIYDetroiters - 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. I 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? This 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. Detroit 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. I 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. I am just a resident worried about my neighborhood having a negative effect on this shrinking process. By moving new residents to our neighborhood may result in more vandalizing, burning of homes, safety, squatting, forcing those whom care aobut our neighborhood to relocate. I believe we should definitely have a voice in the decisions of the shrinking & where those new residents wil be placed. 2/28/11 Would like to see property taxes reduced. My family has paid property taxes for a house ($3,800 - recently reduced to $3,500) that is sandwiched between two abandoned homes on a street where a comparable home on the street sold for $4,990.00. Let's grow us a city we can work in and love together without greed and prejudice. A city environment which is sustainable accepting incentives but not reliant on them! None.
Teach health goals in the schools starting with kindergarten. Use age appropriate subject. Standardized curriculum to be taught by medical & nursing, nutritionist students who do "rotations" in surgery or medical units this would be the "public health" rotation. Call me - I'll tell you how and what it would acheive [phone number and name removed]. We have fabulous health providers in Detroit & we can enhance these programs. The questions are very leading and too simplistic - Honest I felt patronized, as a resident. EG, isn't it obvious that public safety is the highest priority for service? The questions needed to dig deeper - EG instead of asking "What's our desired population" the question should have been "Given current conditions, what size population is realistic for us to expect" or, "Given that it's obvious some people will have to move, what are some realistic incentives to offer people? Take better advantage of the Port of Detroit. Hope change is close by on the horizon. Many question answer choices were vague Please fix my street Lenox off Jefferson. Conduct a training to help community people to learn how to become developers, contractors & subcontractors. Police response is very important. Please get wifi in the Indian Village community. I would like to see the park at the foot of Dickerson be more attractive and useful and the homes leading to it be fixed up so that one can exercise there are walk their children there to play. Thank you to the mayor & his staff who are trying to make it better and willingness to work with all potential players in improving the city - ie Gov. Snyder, etc. Regionalism can be a very good thing for the city & area! Thanks to the mayor and all who are working for a better Detroit - alive, growing and desireable. This particular meeting did not seem like an exercise in community engagement. Please look at the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative as a model for public input. Neighbors should be involved in the visioning process (even though this didn't necessarily work in the first September meeting at Greater Grace) through small-group discussion and charettes. Folks in Detroit have been disenfranchised and this should be a process of empowerment and regained faith in the public sphere and their ability to truly respond to constituent' needs and ideas. Public input should not just be a burden to
overcome before planners can draft a plan, but a necessary element to shaping our city. I think DWP had good intentions, but it could be so much better! DSNI acts as a fantastic model. Some of the vacant land could be given to other universities & colleges as a campus, a vibrant educational system can spur commercial corridor. These schools/colleges would be ot of state universities/colleges. I commute to work in the Wayne State and eastside areas. New Detroiters are important but make sure the voices of those who been here is represented in decision making. Thanks for letting us be a part of this! The schools need a better plan than the one being executed now. I heard a lot about the restructing of the city. I was curious about what is being done to combat the auto insurance. I'm all for bringing people to the city, but how can we maintain the population when the auto insurance for Detroiters is not feasible, especially when unemployment is at an all time high. Really impressive meeting. The high tech clickers were brilliant for involving folks and for keeping things moving. Marja's style is very conducive to a civil and informative gathering. Assistance should be provided to residents that are trying to help themselves. Residents receiving Bridge Cards, Section 8 should be required to do community service - "give back." Women having additional children should not be eligible to get additional funds. Offer incentive for officers to live in the city to the officers that have remained in city as well. The residency is about 850,000, therefore city council members should be reduced. Millions of dollars would be saved. Downsize city council to 5 & cut council budget to average spent by comparably sized cities. Why do you exclude Spanish-speaking residents and Arabic residents by not translating forms and announcements? There is a marked difference in this phase from the 1st round of meetings. What happened? It is disturbing to know that only three city officials/Dept heads are here representing the city. Is it too much for them to come to the poor community, who voted them in and need them most. Can we receive a copy of the presentation, or some other way to get the statistics given and the questions asked? If not go low lax more people will move!

There needs to be more regulation/review of private service contracts and the lack of actual results from these companies. I've seen nothing and heard nothing that's going to make this a better city. Especially since you keep listening to outsiders who don't give give a damn about this city. They are only interested in grant money that pays their bills!!!! Thank you very much for coming into the Michigan-Livernois neighborhood council area and never advising us of this meeting. Not knowing the area and it's people says a lot about how incompetent your people are. Provide benefits to non-residents who work & socialize in city; ex: free library card, etc Very disappointed in representation of City of Detroit officials present respond to questions. SW Detroit is treated like 2nd class citizens who are ignored or not worthy of having persons present to address concerns. City needs to address blight, homeownership, better lighting & encourage familys to aid education process. I attended high school in Battle Creek, MI and am relocating back to MI, partly due to closer proximity to my Mother. I intend to obtain my advance degree in Sociology at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. I live in Boston and have been interested in relocating to Detroit because I am excited about the changes it will undergo. The number one reason preventing me from relocating is that I am unsure of where I would work and I don't know the best way to look for work in Detroit. If increasing the population of Detroit is a priority, I think there needs to be more work done to attract new people by helping them understand what jobs are available, what jobs are coming, and what jobs/industries are needed so that entrepreneurs have an easier time understanding what opportunities exist. Repopulating the city is the number 1 cure. Families return, schools reopen to handle the capacity. People move IN, crime goes down, more eyes. Crime is done under the cloak of darkness. Everyone is looking the other way. I once say a home on the east side that was completely completely glass blocked. Every single window was glassblocked. Seniors live in cages behind bars. There is no quality of life IN the city anymore. Good luck, stay strong, don't let the naysayers get you down Good luck, unfortunately logic rarely rules in the D. I understand that declining revenue is a giant problem, but the property taxes in Detroit make homesteading nearly impossible for young professionals. Getting into historically stable neighborhoods requires us to pay more than our current rent in property taxes alone, and we really don't even get services for the children we want to have in these neighborhoods (I would only send my
children to a select number of DPS institutions). So, you have to pay what I call "the Detroit Tax" - that's $10,000 for property taxes and another $12,000 for private school tuition every year. Young people will not stay here and raise families with this in play - we will move to Grosse Point and Ferndale, where we get schooling and services for our tax dollars. Adjusting property taxes is not debatable. I LOVE this City. I moved away to Florida in 1984 and returned in 1999. For 15 years away, I pined away and missed my City. When I drive into the City (which is very frequent), as I go over the Rouge River Bridge, I still get tears in my eyes because I love this place so much. I grew up here and have so many memories. I have faith that we will rebound. Very nice graphic pdf presentation y'all! Keep up the good brand work - who did it? In response to the question, "If you do not currently use public transportation, which of the following best describes the reason?" My response would be, it's generally faster and warmer (in the winter) to drive. "Creation a ""Riverfront District"" as an internationally acclaimed village of brick-lined streets and dozens of vibrantly restored Industrial buildings. Make it all completely closed to traffic and just a few minutes walk from downtown. Create it as one of Detroit's hottest tourist attractions and home to river events, live theatres, galleries, fashion, design and jewelry boutiques, unique cafes and award-winning restaurants. A model for this type of redevelopment can be found in Toronto: http://www.thedistillerydistrict.com/ Thanks for letting me participate. I hope to be at the meeting at the Boys/Girls Club on Tireman later this month, though I may be in Lansing late talking policy issues with MDOT. This survey is an insult to the serious quesitons we face.
Detroit absolutely must shrink and reallocate its resources in order to foster future growth. In doing so, the city must also break down barriers to revitalization, business development, educational attainment, and entrepreneurship. This includes removing outdated laws and cumbersome administrative practices, cultivating efficiency in city government, and rightsizing city services to reflect the true size of Detroit's population. The retention and attraction of talent is also a must for success, and a strong urban core is necessary for that to happen. Just putting ideas out there. I truly would like to see a long term master plan succeed for the entire SE MI region. It all begins with a solid plan for the city. I think you need to be very explicit that roads need to be depaved in abandoned neighborhoods and vacated where possible. These areas may be used as parks or community gardens. Identify areas that are restored to nature and keep them that way and then focus new development along transit corridors. This is mostly our vision but we must all work together to accomplish great things, changing the culture is not as hard as people think it just takes dedicated individuals who understand these issues and are willing to act to and have an active foot print on them with small individual engagement. Because we believe small individual engagement means a lot. I am a life-long city resident (50+) who lives AND works in the city. I've stayed because I'm hopeful things will turn around. But as crime and blight have crept into my space, it's getting more difficult to hold on to that dream/vision. It's disheartening to watch a beautiful neighborhood deteriorate in a 5 year span. Please contact me if possible and advise how I may become a community organizing working in the streets to help turn this city around or better, support he effort, because it's already being done by people like you all creating such opportunities[phone number, name and email removed] While I do not live in the city proper it is not for lack of wanting. I have lived in the city and currently work in the city and have (and will always be) been inspired by the resilience and cleverness that the residents and employers have. I want nothing more than to see this city reach its potential (because there is so much to be seen). In addition, I understand that Detroit is more than a city, it is a huge part of this region and the success of both depends on the cooperation of both. Detroit should lead the world in connectivity and transit systems. There are so many skilled workers that can apply their skills to green tech that will make this connectivity a reality. Transforming this auto-centric society to a thriving hub of
public transit as well as recitfying the housing issues that have remained unaddressed, since before urban renewal, are both issues that MUST be addressed in order to see the type of density, activity, and development desired in the city. These 2 issues can be accomplished through the current steps of the Detroit Works Project, but community impact and current neighborhood stabilization are vital in order to avoid mistakes made in the past. Empower these communities to come together and voice their needs and wants. In doing this it becomes easier to avoid broad, top-down policy that fails to reach the greatest amount of residents. Also, it lessens the demand on city resources and allows neighborhoods to have a direct investment and stake in their futures and those around them.

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