Blog: Community Building Projects Need Formal Support

A friend who lives in an urban area was telling me about her community association's idea for rehabbing a vacant lot. At present, it's just a weed-choked area, but residents have plans to turn it into a short fitness course, with stations for doing stretching, balancing and so forth.

My friend thought this was a great idea - until she realized the group hadn't yet gone through the official channels for taking ownership of the lot. They hadn't spoken with the city or developed the required Memorandum of Understanding for use of the area. They simply had plans to extinguish the vegetation, put down mulch or some other surface, and then look into getting grants for purchasing the equipment. At some point, they figured, they'd approach the city, but they wanted to put all the pieces in place first.

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