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Monday, September 14, 2015
On Saturday, September 12th, residents of the Crandall Park neighborhood and surrounding communities joined together to FIGHT BLIGHT and beautify vacant homes and lots on Crandall, Norwood, Ford, and Lora Avenues.
Three highly overgrown vacant homes were cleaned up along with adjacent vacant lots. Approximately 60 cubic yards of brush and overgrowth were hauled away, along with approximately a dozen tires and 15 bags of trash. The event was planned and coordinated by members of the Crandall Park Neighborhood Action Team; representatives of Crandall Park South Neighborhood Association, Crandall Park North Neighborhood Association, the Upper North Heights Neighborhood Association, and the Fifth Avenue Boulevard Neighbors participated in the event. This is the third community workday that has been coordinated by the Action Team since the summer of 2014, and an additional event is currently in the works. The City of Youngstown Street Department contributed a dump truck team to assist with hauling brush for the event. This community workday was held as part of the greater Citywide Cleanup and Tire Recycling event sponsored by Green Youngstown.
Like its counterparts across the city, the Crandall Park Neighborhood Action Team is a group that consists of neighborhood leaders, city officials, and community stakeholders that works to accomplish the goals and objectives of the publicly-adopted Neighborhood Action Plan. The Plan identifies vacant homes throughout the neighborhood that need boarded up and cleaned up to improve housing conditions. YNDC and YSUScape partnered to board up over half a dozen houses on these streets as part of a community work day held at the end of August. These combined efforts have led to significant progress at improving quality of life on these streets; stay tuned for more work to come!