In addition to mobilizing the community to stop the proposed widening of Lyndale Avenue, the project successfully advocated for the creation of a citizen task force to plan the future development of the avenue. For more information contact Jean Johnson at 823-0608. In October, participants from Minneapolis and St. Paul neighborhoods and different organizations in both cities met under the sponsorship of the Center for Neighborhoods to begin discussing public safety problems. Representatives of four programs gave brief descriptions of their experiences. The group then went on to try and reexamine crime in a new light.
Different neighborhoods are more or less susceptible to crirne.
For example, a healthy neighborhood will be well-maintained, and there will be close relations between the people who live there. The way to stop crime is notjust to respond to incidents as they happen, but rather to build crime resistance into a neighborhood. A healthy neighborhood will be less likely to get the disease in the first place. No answers came out of this roumdtable, but a new way of looking at the problem was established. A follow-up meeting is tentatively scheduled for early l995, to begin developing policy responses based on the new model.