Over the course of 2019 ENP has helped facilitate community conversations in the West Fresno elementary neighborhood. It started with school staff and community organizations near the school to eventually working with over 40 residents meeting on a monthly basis in the school cafeteria.
The first priority the residents had was the road and traffic conditions around the school site.
As you can see from the pictures included here, the infrastructure work in this neighborhood has been neglected for decades.
Over the last several months, the residents have engaged with the school leadership, Councilman Miguel Arias, and City staff from Traffic Engineering to bring both awareness and an action plan that will make positive changes in 2020.
You’ll see attached a vision of the signage work that will happen this year. It’s also in the City’s plan to repave the roads that are in much need of repair.
This is just one example of how ENP is helping to live out its Asset Based Community Development approach throughout Fresno. Developing civic participation from the very assets living in ALL of our neighborhoods, thus creating a city-wide civic infrastructure of leadership in all 92 of Fresno’s elementary school neighborhoods.
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