Make your Hood standout

There was a small article in Mcall

"Allentown residents and community groups can play a role in improving their neighborhood.

The city is looking for project proposals to transform public vacant lots in the 1st and 6th wards into welcoming, community-centered spaces.

Applications should be for small-scale improvement projects within the area bounded by Union Street, Riverside Drive and American Parkway.

Ideas include:

-- Improving seating or recreational features

-- Installing community garden beds

-- Creating public art installations

-- Organizing community clean-up efforts "

Okay, I somewhat like the idea, but lets be real.  

Improving seating and recreational features. Yea lets build more benches for the homeless to sleep on.

Community garden beds??  So people can grow community weed? Great idea.  If we grow mushrooms 🍄 we can have zombies like Kensington walking around.

Public art installations? Do chalk lines count as art? Or bullet holes?

Organizing community clean-up efforts?  Who in the hell is going to get people to clean up the trash that they litter themselves? 

Guys Allentown is not ready for community gardens for people to steal from or wreck. We dont need benches or spaces for homeless to congregate since the city wrecks any tents they put up. I think these open lots could be used to put snow, or turned into parking spaces.  Not some dumb donkey art or something.  

                 "Tuerk Ross"

I will say the drawings on the sides of buildings is pretty cool.  Not the graffiti either. I support that type of art. Maybe come up with something that each ward is known for or a well known past restaurant that was once there. I.e. like the old yoccos at 600blk of Liberty St.    Idk but think more outside of the box.