{"id":4432,"date":"2022-10-17T14:35:41","date_gmt":"2022-10-17T19:35:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dallasfreepress.com\/sin-categorizar\/public-safety-mill-city-solution-city-of-dallas-311-problem-crime\/"},"modified":"2022-10-17T14:44:54","modified_gmt":"2022-10-17T19:44:54","slug":"public-safety-mill-city-solution-city-of-dallas-311-problem-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dallasfreepress.com\/es\/south-dallas\/public-safety-mill-city-solution-city-of-dallas-311-problem-crime\/","title":{"rendered":"A new public safety project in Mill City may be a solution to the city\u2019s 311 problem"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The South Dallas neighborhood of Mill City<\/a>, which sits just southwest of Fair Park, has approximately 1,530 parcels of land, most of them residential. However, more than a third of the lots in the historically Black neighborhood are vacant and not being kept up, according to data compiled by Dallas\u2019 Child Poverty Action Lab<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A new city project pledges to tackle this issue, with the goal of cutting crime along with the grass in the neighborhood, but this isn\u2019t the first time there\u2019s been an effort to clean up Mill City.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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More than one-third of the 1,500 parcels in South Dallas’ Mill City neighborhood are vacant. A new initiative is cleaning up these lots with the goal of increasing public safety.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Earlier this month, Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson announced that his task force on safe communities is giving $100,000 to Builders of Hope<\/a>, an affordable housing developer, to help clean up nearly 600 vacant lots in Mill City. City Council member Adam Bazaldua, who represents Mill City and South Dallas, pledged another $50,000 of his council budget for the project. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOur approach is going to be quite different,\u201d explains James Armstrong, executive director of Builders of Hope. \u201cWe are proposing a block-by-block model.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What does this mean? Armstrong says Builders of Hope will prioritize every overgrown vacant lot and abandoned building in a single block, as opposed to one-off remediations throughout the neighborhood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This strategy worked to lower crime in Philadelphia where a 2018 study<\/a> found that neighborhoods where vacant lots were cleaned up experienced a 29% reduction in gun violence, a 22% decrease in burglaries and a 30% drop in nuisances such as noise complaints and illegal dumping.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNot only are we hoping to remediate lots and hopefully decrease crime, we know there is a deficiency in the current 311 code compliance process,\u201d Armstrong says, referring to the City of Dallas\u2019 24-7 hotline to request city services<\/a>. \u201cSo, this initiative is really a pilot on how the 311 process can either be reformed, or this program can be scaled to a way that organizations across the City can tackle these issues.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Armstrong says the lots will be selected based on data collected by Zeal Development Services and Analytics<\/a>. Jeremy Connally is the founder and CEO of the company. His team is charged with identifying the first 80 lots that need to be cleaned up. He says the City\u2019s 311 program is often slow to respond because of miscommunication between people calling to complain and 311 operators. That\u2019s why his company also is collecting data to track how long it takes for an issue to get resolved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAnd, we track the steps it took to get that issue resolved,\u201d Connally says.  \u201cWhat did the nonprofit do? What did the city do?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zeal Analytics will work with Child Povery Action Lab<\/a> to determine how those lots relate to crime in the neighborhood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSince this is a model and data-driven, we are all focused on taking a snapshot on the current conditions, listening to neighborhood leaders and their opinions and feedback, and taking all of that data, and creating a plan for remediation,\u201d Armstrong says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vacant land is a common sight in the residential neighborhood of Mill City. Neighbors says vacant lots have led to higher crime in their community and have worked for years to find solutions.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Once the lots are identified, Builders of Hope will enter into a property management agreement with the lot owners and take on responsibility for cleaning and maintaining the lots. This will include adding wood post fences on the properties to limit loitering and littering. The estimated cost is around $5500 per lot. The clean-up will begin in November.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe program also is designed to help homeowners who don\u2019t have the resources to maintain the lots or have the resources to pay code compliance fines,\u201d Armstrong says. Typically, when a landowner can\u2019t pay the city fines, a lien is placed on their property. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis is something we\u2019ve been working on for 10 years,\u201d says Alendra Lyons, president of the Mill City Community Association. Lyons moved back to her childhood neighborhood more than a decade ago to help turn it around. It’s been a long road.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt gets tough,\u201d she says, but she stays focused on the vision. \u201cWhat is the driving force? This is not just for me. This is for the people.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This isn\u2019t the first time there\u2019s been a push to reimagine Mill City. In 2013, the landscape architectural firm MESA<\/a> worked with Dallas Area Habitat for Humanity to sketch out ideas for future projects in the area. According to MESA\u2019s website<\/a>, with the help of Habitat, a grant from Lowe\u2019s and MESA employees, Mill City\u2019s education and community garden parks were constructed in 2014. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Habitat for Humanity unveiled an art project along Collins Avenue. They razed an abandoned shack leaving a vacant lot. Dallas ISD students turned the newly built fence into an art project. Today, however, just a few slats remain. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Armstrong says he understands that nonprofits with good intentions come in and do amazing work and then leave, but he says Builders of Hope has a different approach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe are not doing this for<\/em>, we are doing this with<\/em>,\u201d he says. \u201cIt\u2019s a minimal change but makes a drastic difference.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Builders of Hope\u2019s goal is to focus on neighborhood preservation by ensuring that people don\u2019t get pushed out of their homes because of rising property values, and Armstrong says the only way to do that is to grow and empower the local neighborhood association so they can protect  themselves.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

That being said, Armstrong says, 10, 15, 20 years ago, Mill City was among the roughest part of Dallas\u2019 southeast sector. So, the work that\u2019s been done by the community shouldn’t be overlooked, he says. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSometimes it’s moving from good to better,\u201d he says. <\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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