A "Blight Fight" Mascot For Jacksonville?
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So now Jacksonville has a trash can with boxing gloves as the mascot for the "Blight Fight"? Since when did the 13th largest city in the country revert back to being Mayberry?
Read More: http://www.metrojacksonville.com/article/2015-mar-a-blight-fight-mascot-for-jacksonville
So what's the controversy again?
Love the picture. That is funny. Does everyone remember Drippy? The EPB mascot I believe. May still be around. There was legislation as I recall to spend a $100K and the breakdown was $25,000 for the costume, $25,000 for the informational material, $25,000 for someone to wear it. and $25K for diapers?
Stay positive.
Sounds like a good idea to me..anything to get people to clean up is a good thing...personally id like to see a community volunteer group to help those that need the help in cleaning up their yards and others to just clean up their space...sounds like a good job for people doing community service and theres plenty of those..how about a contractor caught doing something bad? He could spend his time and expertise helping to clean up. Im just sayin...dont poo poo an idea unless youve got a better one.
^Here's a thread with some pretty good alternatives to cleaning up blight in a manner that gives distressed communities a chance at revival.
http://www.metrojacksonville.com/forum/index.php?topic=21389.0
With that said, there's nothing new under the sun. Jax isn't the only American city attempting to fight blight. There are good and bad examples to follow. Right now, it appears we're following the path of Detroit, Youngstown and Flint. Columbus is a peer community applying a different strategy that appears to be more successful at this point. Here's a look at a pretty damn good alternative.
QuoteMayor Announces 'Mow To Own' Program To Clean Up Neighborhood Blight
COLUMBUS, Ohio - Mayor Michael Coleman plans to announce a new plan at Wednesday's State of the City address that will clean up the city's vacant homes, 10TV's Jason Frazer reported on Tuesday.
According to Coleman, the new program is called Mow to Own.
Coleman plans to enlist the help of homeowners to clean up properties, which they would eventually own.
"What we're going to do to the next door neighbor that lives there is to say, 'If you take care of this property, you cut it, you maintain it, your sweat equity can be used to acquire the lot,'" Coleman said.
The Mayor said that he did not want to create more blight.
"Another thing I don't want to do is to take away a blight and create another blight by a vacant lot that just sits there with weeds overgrowing," Coleman said.
http://www.10tv.com/content/stories/2012/02/28/columbus-coleman-announces-mow-to-own-plan.html
They're doing some good work in turning Weinland Park around as well. Weiland Park is a neighborhood similar in scale, age and architecture as Springfield, New Springfield and Durkeeville.
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http://columbusfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/WPC_progress_report.pdf
Quote$15 million pledged to kick-start Weinland Park area
Collaborative aims to fight blight, build and fix up more than 100 homes in three years
A new group is working to rejuvenate the Weinland Park neighborhood north of Downtown by pledging at least $15 million to develop housing in the area plagued by crime, foreclosures and vacant houses.
The Weinland Park Collaborative, which includes the city of Columbus, Ohio State University, the Columbus Foundation and 12 other institutions, also is investing money in job training and education.
"If we work collaboratively, we can put together a model of neighborhood revitalization and take on the underlying issues without displacing people," said Doug Aschenbach, president of Campus Partners, which is Ohio State's community-development arm and another of the group's members.
The goal is to re-energize the housing market by renovating and building more than 100 homes in two to three years. The collaborative is expected to invest at least $15 million in the neighborhood of 4,800 residents, said Lisa Courtice, vice president of community research for the Columbus Foundation.
Here are some details:
• Homeowners will be able to apply this fall for grants of as much as $20,000 for home improvements. A total of $600,000 will be available and administered by the Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission.
• Habitat for Humanity will build six homes on land now held in the city's land bank. That will be funded by some of the $1.5 million in federal neighborhood-stabilization money awarded to Habitat. Construction is to begin in the spring.
• The NRP Group, along with Wagenbrenner Development Co., will build 40 lease-to-own houses west of N. Grant Avenue near the old Columbus Coated Fabrics site. The homes will be financed through low-income housing tax credits.
• Wagenbrenner will use part of $2.5 million in federal neighborhood-stabilization money to help renovate 14 vacant houses in the same area, selling them next spring, said Mark Wagenbrenner, the company's president. "Our ambition is to do more than 14 homes," Wagenbrenner said. "We've got to turn around the core of Weinland Park."
Wagenbrenner is redeveloping the 21.5-acre Columbus Coated Fabrics site at N. Grant and E. 5th avenues, a project estimated to cost $80million that could include 305 homes and 300 apartments.
The nearby area is the neighborhood's most blighted, marred by vacant and abandoned houses, said Joyce Hughes, president of the Weinland Park Community Civic Association. Before anyone can talk about new housing, that area has to be fixed up, she said.
Full article: http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2010/08/28/15million-pledged-to-kick-start-weinland-park-area.html
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It would be pretty cool to see Jax get to a point where a plan to actually tackle blight in a manner that creates economic revival opportunities is implemented. I'm not sure that a trash can with boxing gloves achieves this.
The Weinland Park stuff is pretty impressive. Here's a few more pics floating around the net:
http://www.preservationnation.org/information-center/sustainable-communities/creating/habitat-for-humanity/central-ohio.html
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Infill by Habitat for Humanity of Central Ohio.
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A prancing trash can does not make any real progress toward fighting blight. But unlike a bulldozer with a blank check, it won't do that much harm either (except, of course, to our pride).
And this is specifically the problem. The city milks the federal government to the tune of millions of dollars a year for 40 plus years to "fight blight" in the urban core. All that seems to happen is that crazy monuments get built, homes get placed too close to dumps, houses for homeowners get turned over to investors to rent out. No one accounts for anything in a city that "lacks the capacity" to handle its finances.
But we get Gomer, the talking trash can.
Why? I'm beginning to suspect that we want to keep our urban core blighted so we can continue to get those federal dollars.
I imagine that Alvin Brown hopes that Gomer will satisfy the residents of the urban core that he fulfilled his campaign promise of urban core revitalization.
If there was no blight, how would KIm's cronies profit from the demo's paid by federal funds?
Here's the problem with the blight fight.
1.) Fine people into compliance -- never mind the fact that the urban core is filled with people who are struggling to feed themselves. See Mr. Foster for more detail.
2.) Mow down old neighborhoods -- instead of giving money to help fix these houses. This has the net effect of removing affordable housing from the urban core.
3.) Give them an app to report trash -- has the staff been increased to deal with these complaints?
4.) Blame the trash on the people who live there -- instead of enacting policies which help people deal with illegal dumping (now if someone dumps illegally on your property, you have to pay for it).
The blight fight all along has been pointed at the people who live in the urban core. It has done little to address city owned property which is a major blight factor, nor has it offered a helping hand to people.
And funny thing is that the federal government GIVES Jacksonville millions of dollars a year to HELP people who live in the urban core.
Blaming the victim for the crime. Let's look at the system which neglects the schools, the roads, the sidewalks, the city owned properties.
Jacksonville, you wanna fight blight? Look in your checkbook.
"For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also."
How are we spending the federal dollars? Are we spreading the pork and masochistically calling it help?
I disagree that Fight Blight = a runaway bulldozer. Notice that the bucket mascot is on jaxkids.org, a website catered to Jax's children. There is nothing wrong with putting heat on homeowners to clean up their property.
I think that most older American major cities (Baltimore, Detroit, Cleveland, Columbus, etc etc) makes Jax's blight issues look like child's play. You will never see any pictures of the overwhelming neglect within these other cities here, because Metro Jacksonville's agenda is say say that Jax has a unique blight situation, and everywhere else is successfully replacing all of their blight swimmingly, and I know for fact that is complete BS.
Cities like Bmore, Cleveland, Detroit etc has tons of truly historic and beautiful large family homes, rowhouses etc falling into complete disrepair; It's like our Springfield everywhere up north. Most of the homes fallen into disrepair in Jax aren't historic, suburban style, and have no true architectural value.
Yes children dont own property but there nothing wrong with social lessons for kids to learn that we all have to do our part to keep our environment clean and neat.
^^^Thank you Rob.
Quote from: I-10east on March 05, 2015, 09:19:56 AM
I think that most older American major cities (Baltimore, Detroit, Cleveland, Columbus, etc etc) makes Jax's blight issues look like child's play. You will never see any pictures of the overwhelming neglect within these other cities here, because Metro Jacksonville's agenda is say say that Jax has a unique blight situation, and everywhere else is successfully replacing all of their blight swimmingly, and I know for fact that is complete BS.
Cities like Bmore, Cleveland, Detroit etc has tons of truly historic and beautiful large family homes, rowhouses etc falling into complete disrepair; It's like our Springfield everywhere up north. Most of the homes fallen into disrepair in Jax aren't historic, suburban style, and have no true architectural value.
You obviously don't read my articles. I've posted images of blighted Cleveland, Detroit and Baltimore several times throughout the years. I've also covered places like Gary, Toledo and Youngstown, OH as well. When I have some time, I'll dig up a few links just for you. ;)
Quote from: Rob68 on March 05, 2015, 09:21:48 AM
Yes children dont own property but there nothing wrong with social lessons for kids to learn that we all have to do our part to keep our environment clean and neat.
So....how do you like the Weinland Park revitalization process as an alternative? There's no fighting trash can but the neighborhood is being economically stabilized and jobs are being created.
Quote from: Rob68 on March 05, 2015, 05:42:10 AM
Im just sayin...dont poo poo an idea unless youve got a better one.
^^^I'm not discounting Columbus's 'Mow to Own' because it sounds like a good idea. What if Fight Blight turns out to be a good idea also? It looks like it's being shot down by some of yall before it even had a chance to begin.
^I doubt the policy that was passed turns out to be a good thing. It hasn't worked in 50 years, locally or across the country. I don't see why anyone would think what was passed will work now. What part of the policy do you believe stands the best chance of being a success.....success being defined by stimulating economic redevelopment back to our inner city?
Quote from: I-10east on March 05, 2015, 09:56:57 AM
^^^I'm not discounting Columbus's 'Mow to Own' because it sounds like a good idea. What if Fight Blight turns out to be a good idea also? It looks like it's being shot down by some of yall before it even had a chance to begin.
Let's see. The City passes an ordinance that does indeed allow for demolitions but also repairing and giving away properties and yet within weeks of passing, it produces a list of 40 properties it wants to demolish. Before the ink is even dry on that list, another 105 get sent to the Historic planners to review, as required by law, but no time is given to actually do those reviews. Great pains were taken to protect potentially historic stock but the City immediately does it's best to circumvent the very laws it just passed. And you say we are not giving the "blight fight" a chance to prove itself? The facts are out there. By choosing to ignore them, you become part of the problem rather than the solution. And most likely are profiting from the corruption in some fashion.
Some lady jumped on Councilman Love about calling people "blight" at the debate last night. She was a NW Jax resident and she said it was disrespectful to called unemployed people "blight" and for council members to drive around neighborhoods on a "blight bus". Yes, we have our issues but what's being labeled a solution is about the worst possible outcome and strategy for turning our struggling neighborhoods around. This is one issue where I'd hate to say "I told you so", 10 years down the line. We've seen this fail with Sugar Hill, LaVilla, DT and Brooklyn. Let's learn from our mistakes.
Quote from: strider on March 05, 2015, 10:33:56 AM
Let's see. The City passes an ordinance that does indeed allow for demolitions but also repairing and giving away properties and yet within weeks of passing, it produces a list of 40 properties it wants to demolish. Before the ink is even dry on that list, another 105 get sent to the Historic planners to review, as required by law, but no time is given to actually do those reviews. Great pains were taken to protect potentially historic stock but the City immediately does it's best to circumvent the very laws it just passed. And you say we are not giving the "blight fight" a chance to prove itself? The facts are out there. By choosing to ignore them, you become part of the problem rather than the solution. And most likely are profiting from the corruption in some fashion.
I thought that Fight Blight was basically something along the lines of like "Keep Jacksonville Beautiful" you know, pick up trash, cutting the grass that sorta thing. Now a 'truly' know that it's just all a mass conspiracy to tear down every single unoccupied house in Jax!!! Oh the humanity!!! Thanks for the info...
While I definitely WOULDN'T refer to anyone unemployed as 'blight' IMO people that are ruinous to a community could be considered blight. Lets check the definition; Blight: any cause of impairment, destruction, ruin, or frustration. Are drug dealers, murderers etc ruinous to a community? Damn right they are, screw the PC crap!
How about we stop worrying about being PC and simply attempt to deal with the real economic bull in the china shop? That's my gripe. Instead we come of with things (and waste a lot of money implementing them) that don't have a snow ball's chance in hell of tackling our real problems.
How about putting that city owned restaurant that's never been opened or powered up on the blight list? Certainly would be a wonderful weed infested lot as a testament to the wise expenditure of our tax money.
Quote from: I-10east on March 05, 2015, 11:59:28 AM
While I definitely WOULDN'T refer to anyone unemployed as 'blight' IMO people that are ruinous to a community could be considered blight. Lets check the definition; Blight: any cause of impairment, destruction, ruin, or frustration. Are drug dealers, murderers etc ruinous to a community? Damn right they are, screw the PC crap!
Agreed, however the most ruinous people to the city - at least the dt & adjacent areas - appear to have been those who were running it.
Quote from: Ralph W on March 05, 2015, 12:58:57 PM
How about putting that city owned restaurant that's never been opened or powered up on the blight list? Certainly would be a wonderful weed infested lot as a testament to the wise expenditure of our tax money.
Good point. If COJ is really interested in clearing blight, the best place to start is with cleaning up its own properties. Roll up your sleeves and lead by example! They can also jump on FDOT about picking up all the trash lining the ROW of expressways that slice these neighborhoods up.
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Umm....ok.
Quote from: I-10east on March 05, 2015, 11:32:43 AM
Quote from: strider on March 05, 2015, 10:33:56 AM
Let's see. The City passes an ordinance that does indeed allow for demolitions but also repairing and giving away properties and yet within weeks of passing, it produces a list of 40 properties it wants to demolish. Before the ink is even dry on that list, another 105 get sent to the Historic planners to review, as required by law, but no time is given to actually do those reviews. Great pains were taken to protect potentially historic stock but the City immediately does it's best to circumvent the very laws it just passed. And you say we are not giving the "blight fight" a chance to prove itself? The facts are out there. By choosing to ignore them, you become part of the problem rather than the solution. And most likely are profiting from the corruption in some fashion.
I thought that Fight Blight was basically something along the lines of like "Keep Jacksonville Beautiful" you know, pick up trash, cutting the grass that sorta thing. Now a 'truly' know that it's just all a mass conspiracy to tear down every single unoccupied house in Jax!!! Oh the humanity!!! Thanks for the info...
You really are not paying any attention, are you?
First and foremost there will be demolitions. Everything else is just lipstick on that proverbial pig.....
Quote from: Gunnar on March 05, 2015, 01:06:12 PM
Quote from: I-10east on March 05, 2015, 11:59:28 AM
While I definitely WOULDN'T refer to anyone unemployed as 'blight' IMO people that are ruinous to a community could be considered blight. Lets check the definition; Blight: any cause of impairment, destruction, ruin, or frustration. Are drug dealers, murderers etc ruinous to a community? Damn right they are, screw the PC crap!
Agreed, however the most ruinous people to the city - at least the dt & adjacent areas - appear to have been those who were running it.
So true. The houses are being taken because the leadership is trying showing the public that they are doing something a
because they are incapable of dealing with the real issues.
Quote from: thelakelander on March 05, 2015, 01:45:39 PM
Quote from: Ralph W on March 05, 2015, 12:58:57 PM
How about putting that city owned restaurant that's never been opened or powered up on the blight list? Certainly would be a wonderful weed infested lot as a testament to the wise expenditure of our tax money.
Good point. If COJ is really interested in clearing blight, the best place to start is with cleaning up its own properties. Roll up your sleeves and lead by example! They can also jump on FDOT about picking up all the trash lining the ROW of expressways that slice these neighborhoods up.
Wouldn't they have to be able to figure out what they actually own first? I'm not sure they have exactly been able to do that. Did they get anyone to do that particular study yet?
Quote from: thelakelander on March 05, 2015, 01:55:20 PM
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Umm....ok.
Do you see the lipstick?
Far as I know the city does not know what it owns. We were promised a list last fall, have yet to see one.
from last year:
Quotehttp://www.metrojacksonville.com/forum/index.php?topic=21391.0
When we start thinking of people as "trash" as a "blight", what does that tell us about ourselves as human beings?
QuoteLee said she has been working on improving the city's neighborhoods since she was first elected to the City Council in 1982, and that economic development and job creation have been key issues for city lawmakers for as long as she has been in office.
"At the end of the day, what businesses are going to move into areas that are number one, unsafe, and number two, that are depressed with blight, not just trash blight, and lack of mowing right-of-ways, but human blight," she said.
For Lee, human blight defines anyone who "contribute to the demise" of Jacksonville's neighborhoods.
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Lee also encouraged city residents to report blight of all kinds, including reporting on neighbors.
http://news.wjct.org/post/jax-councilwoman-denise-lee-stand-your-ground-combat-human-blight
why not help JSO if the concern is illegal activity?
Quote from: thelakelander on March 05, 2015, 12:05:15 PM
How about we stop worrying about being PC and simply attempt to deal with the real economic bull in the china shop? That's my gripe. Instead we come of with things (and waste a lot of money implementing them) that don't have a snow ball's chance in hell of tackling our real problems.
'xactly
Oh stop the crying, already. If it was a fancier, more expensive, sophisticated campaign, you'd complain about the money spent. This is a story that happens when there is nothing else to report. Besides, who says Jax has to imitate every other city of its size? Be different and don't look back. If you want an American generic cities, there are plenty of them out there you can move to.
^That's the problem. No campaign is needed. Roll up the sleeves, start picking up trash and make the dedication to keeping public property well maintained. Lead by example. Not by photo op. Anyway, if you can't deal with your neighbors desiring better than the status quo, your own advice is applicable as well. ;)
Quote from: thelakelander on March 05, 2015, 01:55:20 PM
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Umm....ok.
There are people in town (like me) who are professional illustrators and mascot designers (like me) who could have come up with something better than this (like me) so I hope they at least hired somebody local. Other than that all I can say is it's yet another Jacksonville "photo op by design masquerading as good policy making" which the city seems to excel at.
Quote from: Noone on March 05, 2015, 01:43:47 AM
Love the picture. That is funny. Does everyone remember Drippy? The EPB mascot I believe. May still be around. There was legislation as I recall to spend a $100K and the breakdown was $25,000 for the costume, $25,000 for the informational material, $25,000 for someone to wear it. and $25K for diapers?
Stay positive.
The legislation for Drippy was 2005-1414 and I stand corrected it was $150,000 not $100K. So what is the budget for our cash for trash guy?
Id love an account of the amount of hrs any of our city council has spent outdoors picking up anything to help clean this city...most of them are just talking like they always do...when do they actually do something? Ive never seen one pick up a thing
Detroit is not as bad as some posters might claim...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/26/corktown-detroit-is-not-an-urban-wasteland_n_5883520.html (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/26/corktown-detroit-is-not-an-urban-wasteland_n_5883520.html)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/05/detroit-stereoptypes-misconceptions-blank-slate_n_6800606.html (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/05/detroit-stereoptypes-misconceptions-blank-slate_n_6800606.html)
Corktown is nice but make no mistake about it, Detroit does have some serious issues. There's some pretty large swaths of hopelessness. What we call blight would fall for viable in the worst parts of Detroit. What's left of Sugar Hill between Cleveland Street and I-95 and Brooklyn, west of Park Street, is the closet thing you'll see locally to what exist in inner city Detroit on a large scale.
We're such a strange city.
Downtown's not working. The last dozen marketing campaigns didn't work. So, let's spend millions more on another marketing campaign and convince everyone that "downtown is on fire". A campaign I always felt was in bad taste.
If the creative directors of that campaign were transplanted...
new orleans: It's Overflowing.
San Francisco: It's Shakin' in San Fran
Moore, OK: Feel the Breeze
There's blight? Of course there is, no one's tried to create a mascot creature to tell everyone to stop blight.
Maybe that's why our city government isn't working as well as it should. We've been reasoning with our policy makers. We've tried logical explanations. Apparently, our council needs to spoken to with mascots.
A few ideas we should launch, from the citizenry to the government:
Lawnmower Larry : Let's encourage the city to keep parks, public spaces and right of ways clean.
Debtless Debbie: Wow, look how happy Debbie looks when she says "no" to spending money on loan.
History Harry: Historic preservation is the just right thing to do.
Football Frankly: Frankly loves football but Frankly also loves the honest exchange of information between the jaguars, the city government and the tax payers.
Quote from: TheCat on March 10, 2015, 11:13:06 AM
I always felt was in bad taste.
new orleans: It's Overflowing.
So NOLA's is not (going by your catastrophe logic)?? Especially since Katrina was really recent.
that's my point. it is in complete bad taste, at minimum.
How about Mr. Clean --
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Let's clean up the procurement process
or Mr. Slimy as a Mascot for transparency.
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Let's clean up our act! Wipe away Mr. Slimy!
Older Rust Belt cities (e.g. Detroit) may have their share of blight, but they tend to have fairly decent central entertainment districts. Detroit, for one has a great ball park for their baseball team, among other things.
^I wasn't knocking Detroit. It has come a long way and there are a lot of things they've done in and around downtown that Jax could learn from. However, in the grand scale of things, there are some serious issues that Detroit has to deal with that Jax does not. Detroit has lost over 1 million people over the last 50 years. It makes sense for them to plan to use demolition as a tool in their plan to abandon some areas of town. In Jax, a growing Sunbelt community, it does not.
Quote from: sheclown on March 10, 2015, 01:45:12 PM
or Mr. Slimy as a Mascot for transparency.
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Let's clean up our act! Wipe away Mr. Slimy!
+1
Now that I'm awake enough to read some of these older threads, I'm not really so upset over the 'Trash Bully'. I think the misread here was trying to sell this mascot to the general (adult) public rather then focusing on our elementary schools. A 'Trash Bully' going out to schools, organizing and going through the playground picking up with the kids is a very positive thing... Trying to do the same with Lakelander, Lucian, Stephen, Steve, TheCat or Ocklawaha is a whole different (and rather pathetic) thing. Even great weapons can miss their targets and this one is a classic.
Quote from: thelakelander on March 06, 2015, 07:33:56 AM
^That's the problem. No campaign is needed. Roll up the sleeves, start picking up trash and make the dedication to keeping public property well maintained. Lead by example.
Plan on incorporating a KJB Keep Jacksonville Beautiful Vivian Harrell Bluebag cleanup in a Downtown District RICO loop tour. Stay Positive.