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Blvd. to San Mateo Blvd.
The following percentages represent the total responses from Areas 1, 2 and 3 for items perceived as critically needed or that they would make a difference in improving the area.
Area 1: More restaurants, sidewalk vending, bus shelters, graphics signage control
Area 2: Closer parking, sidewalk vending, benches, more parking, sidewalk repair, and
graphic/signage control.
Area 3: More restaurants, sidewalk vending, planned nightline events, and closer parking.
There were also several respondents who identified items that they did not want to see at all. These items were bus shelters, benches, night time events, sidewalk vending, graphic/signage control. Many of these items concerned people because of the potential attraction for people to loiter and perhaps provide opportunity to commit crime, i.e. night time events drawing people to unsafe areas presently Inadequately lit.
Question 4: Is there anything else that would Improve the area?
This question provided an opportunity for people to reiterate their strongest opinions, as well as to add something that may not have been covered. Several miscellaneous issues not covered were:
Change Highland High School to a closed campus.
Slow down traffic on Central Avenue.
Provide median cuts;.
Eliminate medians altogether on Central, and provide angled parking rather than parallel; move landscaping between sidewalk and curb.
Eliminate gun shops.
Eliminate motels notorious for prostitution.
More day time events.
More trash cans.
Diagonal parking on Bryn Mawr.
Improve bus service along Central Avenue,
Language barriers between several cultures.
Open a.. Boys & Girls Club.
Central Avenue to maintain a 50's and 60's character to identify with Rt. 66 history.
Central Avenue to be identified as Rt. 66 to minimize segregation of neighborhoods along it.
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