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CRA workshop presents CPTED plan and Carson Drive case study as blueprint to curb nuisance crime
Summary
At a Panama City CRA workshop, Fort Walton Beach CRA administrator Alisa Burleson outlined Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED), described a Carson Drive case study paid for in part by a $10,000 CRA grant that reduced calls, and offered a five-phase citywide implementation plan and training options for planners and police.
Panama City — At a February CRA virtual workshop, Alisa Burleson, administrator of the Fort Walton Beach Community Redevelopment Agency, laid out Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) as a strategic, low-cost way to reduce nuisance and criminal activity and support local policing efforts.
Burleson told commissioners and staff that CPTED uses deliberate design—natural access control, natural surveillance, territorial reinforcement, consistent maintenance and social-management programming—to encourage desired activity and deter undesirable behavior in public spaces. "Effective community safety is not an accident. It is by design," she said.
She described a Fort Walton Beach one-block "Carson Drive" case study in which city researchers and police identified hotspot locations, applied a CPTED site analysis and prioritized…
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