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Campus Partners Update 6/23/09

University District Organization
Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Neighbors to comment on draft mobility plan for Weinland Park

The City of Columbus and the Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission have been working for several months with neighbors to produce a community mobility plan for Weinland Park. The draft plan was scheduled to be presented at a public meeting on June 17, but the presentation has been rescheduled as part of the Weinland Park Community Civic Association's monthly meeting on Wednesday, June 24. Most of the meeting will be devoted to a presentation and discussion of the draft plan. The meeting will begin at 6:30 p.m. in the Schoenbaum Family Center, 175 E. Seventh Avenue.

UDO sponsors forum on preventing youth violence

Deanna Wilkinson, associate professor of human development and family science at Ohio State, will participate in a community forum on understanding and preventing urban youth violence. The forum will be Monday, June 29, from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at the Schoenbaum Family Center, 175 E. Seventh Avenue. Professors Wilkinson has focused her research on youth violence and conducted field studies in New York City. She is working to apply her findings in Columbus to prevent youth violence.

The forum is sponsored by the University District Organization as part of its quarterly Fifth Monday Series, which offers timely presentations on the fifth Monday of the month.

New service reminds residents of street sweeping

Two enterprising young men, who were angered by the towing that accompanies street sweeping, have established a new, free service to remind Columbus residents that their neighborhoods will be swept soon. The reminder is sent by text message. To sign up for the service, visit http://antitow.com/. You can select from among seven neighborhoods which are swept on a regular schedule by the City of Columbus.