Finally! An Answer to Our Three Simple Requests

Ever since we've been working in this space, we have tried to do our best as individuals and as members of the community to take care of this space in our neighborhood. And in turn, we've requested that the city do a few simple things that we consider basic public goods in a public space. The pictures to the left show the dire conditions:

1. Mow the grass. In this photo, you can see in the foreground where a month ago we hand-snipped the grass that had been as tall as the fence. Behind the fence, one half got cut at one point, but the section closest to the street was left to become prairie grass, aka a trash magnet.

2. The lightstands over the park benches did not have functioning lights, posing a public safety risk, since the metro elevator is right next to this park area

3. The trash has rarely been emptied, and often is left to overflow, making the litter problem worse, since there's no place to fit the litter.

So for this post, we would like to thank all of those who were persistent and helped bring resolution to these three wishes this past week. We are proud to report that the grass has been mowed, five of the six lightbulbs have been replaced, and the garbage has been collected (we hope this will become a regular occurence). All of these have helped to make the area much safer and cleaner, and ultimately more able to be enjoyed by the community.

We were almost at the stage of wishing for a genie to grant our three wishes, but thankfully, the city came through and dealt with these public goods.