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East Fort Worth residents urge sustained code enforcement and coordinated revitalization after injunction lift
Summary
Leaders from Meadowbrook and the East Lancaster Task Force told the Fort Worth City Council during public comment that long-running code, safety and blight problems need a coordinated city response after an injunction against a repeat offender property was lifted.
Joshua Friend, president of the Greater Meadowbrook Alliance, and other neighborhood leaders urged the Fort Worth City Council during the meeting’s public comment period to coordinate a sustained response to persistent crime, property neglect and disinvestment in East Fort Worth.
The plea came as community leaders described long-standing problems in Meadowbrook and along East Lancaster and expressed frustration that a temporary injunction filed last year against a problem motel had been lifted after city attorneys said the injunction had reduced crime at that property.
“The families within our territory are in dire need of your coordinated help. We number around 50,000,” said Joshua Friend, president of the Greater Meadowbrook Alliance, describing intermittent sidewalks, poor lighting, repeated trash…
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