PRIORITY AREA: HOUSING & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
• TRAIN THE TRAINER - Amani United, along with residents had the opportunity to be apart of a seven week resident leadership training, facilitated by Safe & Sound in partnership with Dominican Center, Data You Can Use and Wisconsin Voices. We took part in Collec- tive Impact training. • PEDESTRIAN DIGNITY - Am- ani United had the great plea- sure of connecting with AARP Wisconsin Walking Movement and the author of “Walk: Slow Down, Wake Up, And Connect at 1-3 Miles per Hour” and founder of Pedestrian Dignity,
Jonathan Stalls, in October. We conducted a neighborhood walk which included approxi- mately 25 people from numer- ous areas of city government, neighborhoods, Amani resi- dents and Dominican Center staff. Mr. Stalls helped us to identify the unsafe walkways and street crossings on our route. The next day the group walked along Locust with the same purpose and intent, and we even made a TikTok! Ending our walk we witnessed our worst thoughts, a pedes- trian involved accident. In this incident, it put our efforts of safe streets into overdrive: We
held meetings with residents, city officials and conducted an unofficial speed study with AARP, Milwaukee Walks, Bike Fed and Amani residents. There are now plans of bump outs, round abouts and traffic calming planters, street scap- ing, speed limit signage, speed bumps and more. Traffic safety meetings are ongoing.
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