Maintaining A Safe and Secure Neighborhood

Dear Neighbors,

April has brought us warmer weather and people have now started to come around the neighborhood and cause problems. Someone has stolen one of our bikes after breaking into the backyard through a fence, and another person –or perhaps the same person– has rummaged through a backyard and stolen a house key. Another man attempted to access an apartment claiming to be "an uncle" of the occupying resident. Finally a neighbor has reported a package was stolen from a front door and I have been cleaning up evidence of short term camp outs in the alley.  Evidence of a camp-out with trashed electronics were found most recently in the alleyway.

I've been able to finish the initial trimming and mulching in the alleyway to keep a pleasant alleyway but also provide the visual clearance security people need to survey the alleyway easily and often.  We also worked on giving a neighbor more visibility to monitor the alleyway.

Could Security Forces Please Note Summer Season Has Started Here

South Eugene High, First Family Place, Civic Alliance, Public Works 

The following ideas have recently been brought up for consideration: Neighborhood Watch, Motion Sensors and Cameras to hold people accountable for their actions within our community.

Personally, I think it's time to ask the city for a neighborhood association that includes the houses and apartments surrounding this south central throughway of global traffic here.  We have unique needs and conditions that are different than our neighbors up in the hills.  Here we have more transient housing so less stability with long term planning and organizing.  We have, Airbnbs, single unit apartments, young adults in transition,  and many, many, college students.  So, family friendly picnics, neighborhood clean-ups, zoning laws and nature walks are not necessarily the activities one would organize for this area although the other neighborhood associations could be helpful here!!!