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Pastimes : All Clowns Must Be Destroyed

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To: LLCF who wrote (37618)	6/3/2000 10:28:00 AM
From: flatsville	Read Replies (2) of 42523

A few years ago I was invited to a BBQ at the home of a woman who had served with me on the board of city-wide community organization for a number of years. She gave me very specific driving instructions to her house and suggested I follow them to avoid trouble spots in the neighborhood. When I got to her home it was located on a corner. She and three other families also located on that particular corner were the only inhabited houses for blocks and blocks and blocks in all four directions...it was eeire...like the last civilized outpost in a moonscape of urban decay. I thought I'd seen it all, but I hadn't seen this. She wanted my help in convincing her alderman to lower the price on several abandoned and cleared lots so she and her neighbors could buy the lots and fence them, thus providing a buffer for their homes and giving them garden space and play areas for their kids. I walked the trash strewn lots and spent the afternoon watching the drug dealers cut through. We were only talking about a gap of a few hundred dollars between bid and ask on the various the lots involved. They didn't understand why they should have to pay exorbitant prices to fence, mow and put back on the tax rolls what had become useless property. I didn't understand either. After hours of arguing with the alderman in question the issue turned on my threatening to find these people four home loans with down payment and closing cost assistance in my neighborhood if he didn't capitulate on the asking price of the lots. Net loss to him: four more potentially abandoned houses, 9-12 votes and the bad publicity he'd suffer once I bought the press in for a look see. Gain to me and my ward organization: four families committed to neighborhood improvement and 9-12 votes. He did the math. He made the right decision.

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