Beacon Hill

[herrfrank]

There are 16 recovery centers in Malibu, California, and the Betty Ford Center in Rancho Mirage, CA, is next to the Rancho Mirage Country Club and several others. Having them doesn't appear to have a negative effect.

There's also people shitting on the streets in those same areas. California is just plain trashy, as is most of the West Coast. Of course there's no negative effect to that trashiness to the residents, who, are used to that social norm. The Midwest is a completely different environment. People here take care of and cut their lawns. Pick up trash. Use public toilets that are actually, toilets. Etc.

Umm.. Not in Rancho Mirage they're not. Maybe in a few spots in Cathedral City, but not in the other (downvalley) desert cities. Some of these towns still actually vote (R) [lololol]

Having said that, the Betty Ford Center is a selective rehab. I think it would fit in fine in the middle of Leawood, for example.

[daGOAT]

The West Coast is really dirty, but I think it's over exaggerated. I live in the center of Hollywood and there's not nearly as much dookie on the streets as some people claim, the neighborhood has several entities that work really hard to keep the streets clean. With that being said, littering is worse than any city I have lived in by far. I think KC has a surprisingly large number of mentally ill, unhoused citizens who act about as crazy as anything I've seen on Cahuenga or Fig. It's pretty shocking when you factor in how the population of the city.

KC prepped me 4 life in LA lol

[moderne]

Here in KC I have to pick up fast food trash from the curb in front of my home nearly every day. One morning last week I thought there was a heaped up blanket on the sidewalk across the street, then I spied a leg sticking out from it. Regularly see people urinating and defecating in the park out in the open, not even bothering to go behind bushes.
Was visiting friends in Pasadena last month. They live a block from the intersection of Orange Grove and Colorado where the Rose Parade makes the turn and all the TV commentators are set up. They took me into LA to see all the new construction from my last visit. Homeless encamped in countless spots especially along freeways. In Pasadena no unhoused. Don't know how they handle it. Saw once a panhandler by freeway entrance, when I came back by 15 minutes later he was gone. In Pasadena the California dream still seems alive. Cannot make broad generalizations about any state or city about this issue.

[taxi]

There should be lots of public bathrooms. It should be a whole new industry and employ lots of people to maintain and clean them. The homeless problem is huge and not easy to solve, maybe even impossible. But for godsake, our tax dollars and the city should provide them the dignity of having a bathroom and shower. It is not that hard.

1. Get employed if not already. 2. Obtain housing. 3. Use facilities in said housing.

Problem solved.

What happens before #1? Perhaps a #2 on im2kull's bushes.

[daGOAT]

Here in KC I have to pick up fast food trash from the curb in front of my home nearly every day. One morning last week I thought there was a heaped up blanket on the sidewalk across the street, then I spied a leg sticking out from it. Regularly see people urinating and defecating in the park out in the open, not even bothering to go behind bushes.
Was visiting friends in Pasadena last month. They live a block from the intersection of Orange Grove and Colorado where the Rose Parade makes the turn and all the TV commentators are set up. They took me into LA to see all the new construction from my last visit. Homeless encamped in countless spots especially along freeways. In Pasadena no unhoused. Don't know how they handle it. Saw once a panhandler by freeway entrance, when I came back by 15 minutes later he was gone. In Pasadena the California dream still seems alive. Cannot make broad generalizations about any state or city about this issue.

Pasadena is truly amazing, it gives off some midwest charm and is very walkable. They're basically the template for California to follow.

sorry ik it's off topic.

[rxlexi]

Dog shit downtown is a greater problem here than any other city I’ve lived in

I literally watched a guy let his golden retriever shit in the middle of the sidewalk in the Freight House District and walk away from it. He fully saw me there looking at him with my large group and if I had not been trying to keep up with that group I would have confronted him. I was fuming for like two days over it. It is a big problem, there is new dog shit in front of my house in Volker every few days.

A little off topic but I agree this is enraging and a pet peeve of mine. As a large dog owner, there is no more basic responsibility than waste cleanup and ensuring that you have the necessary bags on hand when outside the house. I was amazed at the lack of respect and accountability when we lived downtown. Do these people need to be literally confronted and told the rules?

In the suburban multifamily world there is a system called Poo Prints that is required in many communities. Samples can be DNA tested and matched to registered animals, and a fine provided. Obviously impossible to implement on a city-wide scale, but man you'd love to see it.

[FlippantCitizen]

Dog shit downtown is a greater problem here than any other city I’ve lived in

I literally watched a guy let his golden retriever shit in the middle of the sidewalk in the Freight House District and walk away from it. He fully saw me there looking at him with my large group and if I had not been trying to keep up with that group I would have confronted him. I was fuming for like two days over it. It is a big problem, there is new dog shit in front of my house in Volker every few days.

A little off topic but I agree this is enraging and a pet peeve of mine. As a large dog owner, there is no more basic responsibility than waste cleanup and ensuring that you have the necessary bags on hand when outside the house. I was amazed at the lack of respect and accountability when we lived downtown. Do these people need to be literally confronted and told the rules?

In the suburban multifamily world there is a system called Poo Prints that is required in many communities. Samples can be DNA tested and matched to registered animals, and a fine provided. Obviously impossible to implement on a city-wide scale, but man you'd love to see it.

Lol what??? You have to provide your dogs DNA to a third party company? Sorry, as enraging as the constant dog poo in my yards is I think that kind of surveillance is indicative of such a low trust, low decency social environment that it’s positively Orwellian. I would not love to see something that ham handed and intrusive.

[rxlexi]

Lol what??? You have to provide your dogs DNA to a third party company? Sorry, as enraging as the constant dog poo in my yards is I think that kind of surveillance is indicative of such a low trust, low decency social environment that it’s positively Orwellian. I would not love to see something that ham handed and intrusive.

Indeed - https://www.pooprints.com/

[moderne]

Amethyst Place under construction. Large "L" shaped lot on end of block will make an impact.

[moderne]

Construction started at row house development on se corner of 29th and Forest.

[FangKC]

The project is called 29 Forest. The general contractor built the houses on Mount Prospect at 23rd and Forest across Bruce Watkins from Beacon Hill.

https://www.google.com/maps/@39.0735416 ... ?entry=ttu

https://compasskc.kcmo.org/EnerGov_Prod ... ttachments

[moderne]

Elevate Design + Build moving into the Beacon Hill market building houses at northwest corner 29th and Tracy.

[FangKC]

KC breaks ground on new affordable apartments off Troost named for neighborhood pastor



A new affordable housing development will transform a Beacon Hill corner where thousands were called to pray for decades.

Kansas City officials and developers staged a groundbreaking of the upcoming Mabion supportive housing development at 2732 Forest Ave., one block east of Troost Avenue, on Thursday. The Mabion will offer 57 units of affordable housing with one to three bedrooms, including 11 units set aside for families struggling with homelessness.
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The Mabion will take the place of the Bethlehem Kingdom Center’s former home, also known as the Kansas City Prayer Dome.
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According to the construction bid, units will be for residents living at or under 60% of the area median income, which in Kansas City is $43,320 for one person, and $61,860 for a family of four, according to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Ed Lowndes, executive director of the Housing Authority of Kansas City, said a portion of the units will be dedicated to families with very low incomes using housing vouchers.

The $19.3 million project is funded through a mix of sources, including tax credits from the Missouri Housing Development Commission, federal housing funds administered from both the state and the city, Kansas City’s Housing Trust Fund and bank loans.
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It also allows the opportunity to be closer to the renewal on Troost, better public transit and other new developments in Kansas City, he said.

“And a little bit closer to being the Kansas City that we want: one where everybody has opportunity, where there is access to affordable and attainable housing for people of all ages and, more than anything, where we are able to support a community thriving — thriving to its fullest extent in decades,” Lucas said.

Mayor Lucas posted on social media on Thursday afternoon that the project marks more than 2,500 units in the works out of the city’s Housing Trust Fund.
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The Mabion is expected to be completed in early 2026.

Read more at: https://www.kansascity.com/news/busines ... rylink=cpy

The location:

https://www.google.com/maps/place/2732+ ... FQAw%3D%3D

[FangKC]

New project in Kansas City's Beacon Hill looks to provide affordable housing

https://www.kshb.com/news/local-news/yo ... le-housing

New affordable housing development breaks ground in KC’s Beacon Hill neighborhood

https://www.kctv5.com/2024/10/25/new-af ... eighrhood/

[moderne]

Sort of a mini sfh building boom on a short stretch of 29th. The 29 Forest row homes are up and framed, excavation for an Elevate home on NW corner at Tracy, 2 foundations in for unknown developer on SE corner of Tracy.

[moderne]

There was a fire at the old school at 22nd and Tracy which was to be the centerpiece of a housing development. Hope the damage does not mean destruction. Probably homeless staying warm, used to be an encampment below here until the scrub under story was cleared out. Saw homeless fire yesterday blazing away under the I 70 Paseo underpass.