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Consultant urges Lake Forest to build safety into design, citing CPTED principles
Summary
John Condon of Trabuco Consulting framed crime prevention as a design problem, urging the Planning Commission to apply natural surveillance, access control, territorial reinforcement and maintenance to parks, business districts and streetscapes.
John Condon, a consultant with Trabuco Consulting who said he has lived in Lake Forest for 27 years, told the Planning Commission on May 7 that crime prevention is largely a matter of design and maintenance.
Condon described Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) as a toolkit of four pillars — natural surveillance, natural access control, territorial reinforcement and maintenance — that planners, developers and maintenance crews can use to make parks, business…
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