(In all fairness, some of these non-sidewalk communities may have walking trails or parks).
Traci Ruble, MFT is a California Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, founder of Psyched in San Francisco and Co-Creator of Sidewalk Talk Community Listening Project.
Contributor and survey author, Traci Ruble, is a Bay Area Therapist, the Founder of Psyched in San Francisco and Co Creator of Sidewalk Talk Community Listening Project.
In the spring, the sunny blooms grace schoolyards and parks, sidewalks and community gardens.
Neighborhood councils from areas such as Echo Park and Los Feliz have thrown their support behind the plan, but opponents such as the Studio City Neighborhood Council worry that legalizing street vending will clog up and dirty sidewalks, jeopardize community health and safety, and create unfair competition for local businesses that face higher costs.
After planting some carrots on the street outside his house, LA resident Ron Finley helped kickstart a guerrilla gardening movement that has now resulted in the city passing a new law to allow free gardens next to sidewalks so communities can grow their own food.
Their case got a boost when the Nassau County district attorney, Denis Dillon, filed a supporting brief that says putting the possessions on the sidewalk "despoils the community" and "contributes to crime".
But down the block, a dozen of his friends and acquaintances -- all heroin addicts in their teens and 20's, and all disheveled and homeless, as he is -- sit on the sidewalk outside a community center and wait to be tested for hepatitis C.
I knew Hoepfner and a chunk of the cast from the Sidewalk Café/Antifolk music community and was delighted to encounter so many talented artists from the scene engaging in an innovative collaboration of this scale.
A culture that prized privacy and individuality left many neighborhoods without sidewalks or nearby community gathering places.
