Fort Worth Neighborhood Capacity Building
March 10, 2008
As the City of Fort Worth continues to grow, city leaders recognize that the involvement of citizens within their communities is an integral part of helping each community reach its goals. To that end, the City of Fort Worth has begun encouraging citizens to participate in neighborhood organizations and associations.
Benefits of Neighborhood Organizations
The encouragement of neighborhood organizations by the City is helping boost the quality of Fort Worth Texas Real Estate because those organizations help foster a sense of community among the citizens of that neighborhood. Having a sense of community brings pride to the neighborhood and builds a strong neighborhood self image. In turn, resident involvement within those neighborhoods leads to a safer community and the completion of many neighborhood improvements. These neighborhood associations also monitor building proposals, and come up with a list of goals for their neighborhoods along with a plan of action and list of priorities for reaching those goals.
There are a variety of neighborhood organizations in Fort Worth, including neighborhood alliances and associations, community development groups, and nonprofit organizations such as Citizens on Patrol.
Fort Worth Neighborhood Activities
Since August 1997, the number of registered neighborhood organizations in Fort Worth jumped from 114 to 238. There are currently 14 registered neighborhood alliances, but many areas of the city as of yet remain unrepresented. The goal is for every piece of Fort Worth Real Estate to belong to a community group, ensuring representing every residential neighborhood within the city.
These organizations are responsible for such activities as planting trees, organizing clean-ups, procuring custom street signage, and for conducting neighborhood policing. A program run by the City of Fort Worth provides courtesy notices to citizen’s groups notifying them of any growth and development issues slated to go before the Zoning Commission so that concerned citizens have the opportunity to listen in and voice their opinions.
The Fort Worth Citizens on Patrol program has trained 5,200 residents in crime stopping tactics, and 189 citizen’s groups help patrol Fort Worth neighborhoods, resulting in a lower crime rate for those areas.
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