RESIDENTS TO RECEIVE GRANTS.Byline: Jim Skeen Do you mean:
The city will help residents around Desert Sands Park in fixing up their homes as part of the city's Neighborhood Improvement Program. Palmdale Palmdale, city (1990 pop. 68,842), Los Angeles co., S Calif., in the irrigated Antelope Valley; a growing residential suburb of Los Angeles near Little Rock Creek where it forms Lake Palmdale Reservoir, inc. 1962. is targeting an area between Avenue Q and P and between Division Street and Third Street East, an area embracing 382 homes built mostly in the 1950s. ``We are trying to breathe some new life into a neighborhood,'' said Michael Miller Michael or Mike Miller may refer to:
Under the program, homeowners who meet income requirements can apply for grants up to $2,500 for painting and landscaping. The grants do not have to be repaid. The program also offers assistance in replacing cement cement, binding material used in construction and engineering, often called hydraulic cement, typically made by heating a mixture of limestone and clay until it almost fuses and then grinding it to a fine powder. driveways, assistance in removing trash, and tool loans for maintenance and repair projects. The city's redevelopment agency has $600,000 available for the home repairs. The money is offered to households making up to the area's median income, or $51,300 a year for a family of four. City staffers went door to door Thursday Thursday: see week. and Friday Friday: see Sabbath; week. Friday young Indian rescued by Crusoe and kept as servant and companion. [Br. Lit.: Robinson Crusoe] See : Servant handing out information on the program. In addition, the city plans to encourage program applicants to join and strengthen existing Neighborhood Watch programs, sponsor community cleanups, conduct tree plantings, and to participate in other public safety programs. The target area is the second since the Neighborhood Improvement Program was created in October October: see month. 1996. The first target area was between Palmdale Boulevard and Avenue Q-10 and between Division Street and Fifth Street East. About 60 percent of the 104 property owners participated in that effort. ``The goal is to do two of these a year,'' said Mayor Jim Ledford. ``It's made a very positive difference.'' CAPTION(S): Photo, Map PHOTO Abandoned homes around Desert Sands Park are targeted for neighborhood improvement plan. Shaun Dyer/Special to the Daily News MAP: Neighborhood Improvement Program Daily News |
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