Word: neighborhood
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...lured by low prices and no-money-down mortgages. Seven years ago, developers carved a new district, Franklin Reserve, out of hunting grounds and dairy farms, building 7,000 homes in three years to satisfy an insatiable demand for California living. But the slowing market threatened to dismantle the neighborhood before it got off the ground...
...development's new foot trails and saw gang graffiti on a fence. "I thought to myself, This is it--I am done," says McDonald. She voiced her concerns on the town website. "I got 85 responses to do something," she says. She helped found the Franklin Reserve Neighborhood Association (FRNA), which today has 405 members. FRNA created a "good neighbor" letter to let absentee landlords know when their renters were causing problems, and organized a Sunday-afternoon lawn cleanup for 27 foreclosed homes. Its attentiveness also helped the police shut down 33 houses used to grow and distribute marijuana...
...They miss what is behind the recipe—the culture, the tradition. Maybe they make the thing from the recipe, but they don’t understand it.”Giovanna, his wife and translator, stepped in. “It’s not a bad neighborhood. We have good friends here. We say hi, like we do in Italy, when we pass on the street. He just hates when people exchange Italy for the North End.” Tognetti, traditionalist though he may be, was right. The North End is not an authentic Italian town...
...We’re an institution, but we’re an institution that is inseparable from the neighborhood,” he said. “Therefore, it is in our collective interest to work together until we get a ‘yes’ from everyone...
...Bruno said that while neighborhood relations with BC were not devoid of conflict, the sense of frustration and helplessness that the community felt when dealing with Harvard was not present...