Clean Up Davis Square

[cleanup-davissq.livejournal.com]

Davis Square is a great place to live.

Lately though it seems to have gotten a little shabby with an increase in littering and graffiti.

 

I'd love to meet up with a few people on a weekend morning (or covertly late at night!) and repaint graffiti on trashcans and doorways, pick up litter, plant flower seeds...whatever it takes to bring a nicer, cleaner environment to where we live.

The city doesn't seem to have the will so let's take the initiative.

 

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[ah42.livejournal.com]

Perhaps the owner of Orleans could have paid them to paint a version of the Orleans logo/sign in their style instead of having to paint over their art himself.

I agree, private property shouldn't be vandalised, but repainting it yourself is also a form of vandalism. What if the property owner *likes* the art?

[pierceheart.livejournal.com]

Perhaps the owner of Orleans could have paid them to paint a version of the Orleans logo/sign in their style instead of having to paint over their art himself.

That sounds a lot like a standard protection racket.

[komos.livejournal.com]

Funny how that works.

'Course, it also assumes that the "artist" would actually come forward and not think that the offer to paint a logo was just a sting operation set up by the narcs.

[ah42.livejournal.com]

Hah, I hadn't thought of that. I think of 'protection' as something in those old gangster movies I've never watched, and never thought to apply it to a community such as Davis.

But I was just thinking that if he liked their work, then he could ask them to do it in a way that his buisiness would like as well. The money is just because they're doing a job and should be reimbursed.

*shrug* I'm not a city person. I just love Davis.