bkdelong

So I got this letter in my front stoop this morning about how a local homeless shelter just purchased a nearby church and how it must be stopped less crime, degradation, litter & real estate devaluation come to our neighborhood.

I was appauled. I still am and plan to reply to the letter via the enclosed email and to a Letter to the Editor. I also plan on creating a neighborhood Web site to have things like a virtual "Neighborhood Watch", coordinating group trash pickup days, and tracking things like tresspassing requests (38 Broad St. wishes dogs would not urinate on their lawn, 42 would like people to stop walking on their flowers). I prefer THESE then turning away a homeless shelter. If anything, it will give people a place to stay - matter of fact, we should work to allow them to get online so the homeless can login and become a have rather than stay a have-not. So my next bit of research will be looking at neighborhood organization Web sites.

Was also thinking if neighborhood watch goes online via email or something and there's an "alert", having it set to make a little popup on my TV via TiVO or some other PVR setup. It would be perfect - I'd do the same thing for notifications from home appliances & other important things.

More to come.