Shaw Residents! The Shaw Neighborhood Improvement Association (SNIA) has a Safety Committee that would love your participation. Paul Fehler is leading the charge and is looking for 3-5 more individuals to commit 30 minutes per month. The main task is to adopt the Neighborhood Ownership Model used by the city, which includes 3 main activities: [...]

Some odds and ends: 1) The new shawartfair.org website is live!  Special thanks to David Ray for his hard work.  Look for a revamped sniadev.wpenginepowered.com site, soon! 2) We have a slew of new and returning committees that could use your support, wherever you feel led to serve: website/communications, membership, outreach, art fair, dog park, [...]

In light of this weekend's workshop, I've been asked how the proposed Shaw safety model will work.  This story from Channel 4 does a great job of showing how Lafayette Square started the model, and how Dutchtown and Tower Grove South are implementing it. I hope to see all of you this Saturday 10AM at [...]

Just a reminder that we're hosting a workshop 10AM June 18th at The Word At Shaw.  To be clear, we're recruiting volunteers to build a safety model patterned after Lafayette Square's successful safety committee.  The city is so committed to this model, that Chief Dan Isom, of the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department has promised [...]

At Monday night's general meeting, we heard from Mike Petetit, chair of Lafayette Square's safety committee.  The neighborhood's approach to crime has proven wildly successful for them, taking them from the 27th safest neighborhood to the 9th safest in two years.  Without a taxing district. This is so much more than citizen patrols. The approach [...]