Divisadero Street Neighborhood Marketplace Initiative - Office of ...

Moving into 2008, the Business Attraction Committee will organizea recruitment campaign to bring those desired types of businesses toDivisadero, and to match them with available properties.Safety and Cleanliness - Preliminary ResultsMOEWD continues to assist community members and the proper cityagencies to work together and identify solutions to the most pressing safetyand cleanliness issues of the neighborhood. This may include establishingmerchant and resident watch programs for crime prevention, andcommunity-led trash and graffiti abatement programs.Since the planning meetings, the City has worked to achieve real results in thefollowing safety and cleanliness areas:Cleaning and Maintenance of the Public Realm (Sidewalk area andbuilding frontage)• In Fall 2006, the Mayor’s Office, in conjunction with the Department ofPublic Works, launched a six-month cleaning project called The CorridorPartnership. The intent of the project was to show the neighborhoodhow Divisadero Street could look and feel if everybody, including thecity agencies responsible for city-owned street fixtures, did their part totake care of the public realm on the street, the sidewalk, and buildingfrontages.• From October ’06 - June 07, the DPW provided cleaning and maintenanceon Divisadero Street between Haight and McAllister Streets. This includedstreet sweeping and sidewalk power-washing around garbage receptaclesand repairing damaged street fixtures within the City’s responsibility(signs, missing trees, Muni shelters, garbage cans, news racks, etc.). ADPW employee walked Divisadero Street from 11am to 7pm Thursdaythrough Saturday, sweeping litter, reporting graffiti and code violations,and being visible to merchants and residents. Concurrently, DPWconducted outreach to property owners and merchants, reminding themof their responsibility for caring for their property and sidewalks.32