Caldwell resident urges city to add lighting, sidewalks and parks in North End to improve safety and youth outlets

Miguel Orozco, a Caldwell resident who lives north of the train tracks, told the City Council he is campaigning for lighting, sidewalks, crosswalks and improved parks in the city’s North End and described those changes as public-safety and youth-engagement priorities.

Orozco said he titled his remarks “the land that time forgot” and described multiple specific locations he said lack adequate lighting or crosswalks, including Ninth and Chicago (behind Buy Mart), Kimball and Chicago (near the Rice House), Fifth and Chicago and the Centennial Road crossing used by people heading to the rotary ponds. He said poor lighting and unpaved sections of road force residents and schoolchildren to navigate unsafe conditions.

Nut graf: Orozco pressed the council for targeted investments—better street lighting, paved sidewalks and upgraded park facilities—to…