This is a complex topic. In many ways, little government does in an area like this can overcome a few other factors. The proximity to the train track is going to perpetually inhibit owner investment and upkeep of properties on Crawford, Clay, and Mulberry and everything in between. Even if the city tackled the issue of the trains' horns, it's still loud enough in those blocks to be an arguably unhealthy place to live long-term. Probably the best things the city could do to stimulate upkeep of those blocks is make sure streets, curbs, sidewalks, and water service are in good repair and then press correction of code violation. That enforcement should be relentless on absentee landlords. But it becomes a moral and ethical challenge to inflict lower-income owner occupants with greater financial burden. So here, providing assistance for the property maintenance remedies is what a responsible local government should try to do.
Very apt observation. I will say I live about five blocks from the train and the worst part of living on the other side of the tracks, isn't so much the horns blasting but waiting at the gates. But your main point is right, streets, curbs and gutters, trees, sidewalks. It's all about the bread and butter type things that government needs to do to make neighborhoods function well.
This is a complex topic. In many ways, little government does in an area like this can overcome a few other factors. The proximity to the train track is going to perpetually inhibit owner investment and upkeep of properties on Crawford, Clay, and Mulberry and everything in between. Even if the city tackled the issue of the trains' horns, it's still loud enough in those blocks to be an arguably unhealthy place to live long-term. Probably the best things the city could do to stimulate upkeep of those blocks is make sure streets, curbs, sidewalks, and water service are in good repair and then press correction of code violation. That enforcement should be relentless on absentee landlords. But it becomes a moral and ethical challenge to inflict lower-income owner occupants with greater financial burden. So here, providing assistance for the property maintenance remedies is what a responsible local government should try to do.
Very apt observation. I will say I live about five blocks from the train and the worst part of living on the other side of the tracks, isn't so much the horns blasting but waiting at the gates. But your main point is right, streets, curbs and gutters, trees, sidewalks. It's all about the bread and butter type things that government needs to do to make neighborhoods function well.
I'm four blocks from the track, and the noise level is pretty easily gotten used to. But when you get to a block away, it's something else.