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Q15: If you could change one thing about the following public The most prevalent themes that arose out of peoples’ sugges <br />- <br />spaces, what would it be? (1,512 responses)spaces, what would it be?tions for the Park Blocks include: <br />Park Blocks <br />aking the space feel safe and clean to attract more visi <br />M <br />1. <br />- <br />tors <br />Around 70% of the responses focused on addressing the home <br />- <br />anding the Farmers and Saturday Markets <br />Exp <br />less, transients, and vagrants and their negative behaviors, or <br />2. <br />making the Park Blocks feel safer and more secure: “Remove <br />alming, closing, and/or converting some of the sur <br />C <br />3. <br />- <br />the transients and panhandlers.” Of these, 43% mentioned <br />rounding streets to create shared space similar to Broadway <br />the types of people, 26% mentioned behaviors (panhandling, <br />and Willamette <br />drugs, loitering, dogs, harassment, camping, urinating) and 31% <br />oviding more amenities such as movable seating with a <br />Pr <br />4. <br />discussed feeling unsafe, insecure, uncomfortable and/or asked <br />retractable cover, public art, and a play area for kids <br />that laws to reduce these behaviors be enforced in the Park <br />Blocks. <br />ering more programming like Night Markets, outdoor <br />5. <br />music, food kiosks, and lunchtime activities <br />Words most frequently mentioned: <br />proving the landscape with resurfaced concrete, better <br />Im <br />6. <br />planting displays, improved lighting <br />A <br />7. <br />and an improved street level connection to the park <br />78 <br /> <br />