I fully agree with you. There is not much for kids to do in this community. Even the neighborhood schools have fully fenced off their playgrounds now, and even though I understand what motivated this action, it's not clear where the kids are supposed to go. When we think of vacant premises on Central, we as a neighborhood appear to be interested only in pursuing businesses. What if we started thinking in a different direction? Can we do something other than food and alcohol? (Retail is dying, so I am not even going to worry about it.) Does everything have to be for profit? Yes, I understand that those who lease are interested in making money. But can we at least start talking about communal interests that lie outside of business interests?

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Subject: [Neighbors] Concern for our neighborhood

I keep hoping we will see on the list some talk of a community center being planned here that would focus on the needs of our seniors and the youth especially. We don’t even have a community meeting center, a pool or anything like that. A skateboard site would be good. I see appeals for more venues for alcohol and drug outlets and with the cannabis legalization people who want to make drug profits off our neighborhood are coming. My underage teens tell me people are approaching them on the street to try these drugs. And we even have war profiteers boldly opening a store front on Central to promote more destructive ideas and weapons to kill with. As a Vietnam war veteran I find this very troubling and would like to see my neighborhood go in a different direction.

In community,
Bob Anderson
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