We've always had good friends within the neighborhood. I have neighbors I can call in the middle of the night. Oakland County, meanwhile, this year became the first county nationwide to adopt the National Trust's Main Street program to revitalize downtowns. Yack admits the party on wheels is a gamble, but he said staff time and money is a small investment in making residents connected. Most Metro Detroit cities aren't biting now.
Neighbors do a good job of getting to know each other.
We already do a lot to keep our neighbors informed. We're not going to hold hands and introduce them. Five years ago, Ellen Boyd uprooted her family and moved to one of Canton Township's newer subdivisions. It'll just get caught up in red tape and become political. We don't need politics in our back yard.