The 180 homes do not belong to a neighborhood association, which has made getting input from every stakeholder difficult. But residents are trying to change that.
A resident in the affected area, who didn t want to be named, is creating a new neighborhood association called the S. Edgefield Neighborhood Association. Other nearby residents are trying to help get the neighborhood association running.
Hopkins, Yolanda Alameda, a representative of the Polk-Vernon neighborhood association, and the resident visited each of the 180 homes to let people know about the new neighborhood association.
“Some of them were very skeptical about the process and getting involved because they feel like they’ve been neglected and ignored for a very long time and that they’ve asked for things in the past, like street repairs and sidewalks and traffic calming measures and the city just has ignored them,” Hopkins said.