A special service district for Grand Avenue exists in Fair Haven. I serve on its board. I've long thought it should expand to include the Wooster Square portion and run from State Street to Quinnipiac Avenue. Let me know if there is interest.

Thanks Paul. There use to be an active merchant's assoc. but it is long defunct. I am not sure Grand Ave. is included in the District 1 police prescient. They are an excellent team, but not there.

There is interest in expanding the Grand Avenue special service district to include the Wooster Square portion of Grand Avenue, Paul. Is there a website I can access to familiarize myself with Fair Haven special service model?

I believe that you are speaking of GAVA? Been gone awhile now.

Paul, what group do you belong to? I've dealt with a few over the past 12 years as a member of the business community along Grand Ave.
The only one that was proactive in getting sh*t done was the neighborhood watch.

Paul - Very interested in learning more about the Special Service District and seeing if it can a) be expanded to include the (albeit small) Wooster Square section, or b) if something similar can be established for Wooster Square.

Grand Ave in much of Fair Haven is active with many types of businesses, and has parking & bike lanes like I've described which are useful, inviting, and serve to calm traffic.
Fair Haven tends to have far greater challenges than Wooster Square, so if progress can be made there...

Again, we are only talking about a short section of road here, but it breaks up a neighborhood, and disconnects points eastward of Wooster Square from Downtown.

See http://www.grandavenuessd.org/ for some not exactly current background. Email me at pdw265-GrandAve@yahoo.com for more info.

Hi all, this is Nadine, Engagement Advocate for SeeClickFix. This looks like a great discussion for our new SeeClickFix Community Slack Channel that we will be launching next week! This channel will be an open space for discussion of topics that don't fit the usual issue categories on SeeClickFix, and will allow for dialogue that is respectful, pragmatic, and useful to the concerns and ideas of its members.

Send me an email at nadine.herring@seeclickfix.com and I'd be happy to send out an invite to all those interested.

Paul and Nadine - sent emails to both of you.

Note to the city:
Since Grand is (still) torn up from milling, with rumors that a completion date could be a month or more out, it seems to me like a perfect time to incorporate some improvements?
Marked parking spaces, marked bike lane to connect to the Downtown and Fair Haven routes, etc.
Easier to plan for it now while it's all torn up, I would think...
Would be a nice consolation prize to those of us in the area who are getting our cars and bikes beat up thanks to this poorly planned milling/paving job (seriously, NEVER seen such a long time gap between milling and paving). Looks like I already need to replace a nearly-new bike tire thanks to Olive Street...

Actually painting in bike lanes on the new paving is now the law.

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