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City planners and police outline CPTED-focused program to reduce violent and property crime at hotspots
Summary
The committee received a briefing on the city’s Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) program, which applies design, maintenance and activation strategies to identified high-crime properties and corridors; councilmembers discussed scaling, funding and private-property constraints.
City planning staff and the police department presented the Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) program and examples from recent property-focused interventions aimed at reducing violent and property crimes in identified hotspots.
Brigitte (presenter listed in materials as a planning staff lead) described a three‑phase approach launched in January 2023 that starts with short-term situational strategies, moves to problem-oriented policy changes and, in focused sites, adds multiagency, place-based interventions. Staff presented case studies: two multifamily complexes where poor lighting, broken windows,…
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