What's New at "A Good Community"
Here are the most recent important changes to our website, including new articles, visitor questions, and editors' answers. You'll also find links to significantly revised pages and time-sensitive or short items we want to bring to your attention. Sometimes we also add short items of interest, especially time-sensitive notes about conferences, webinars, or seasons.
How is neighborhood stability related to personal health
March 20, 2025 Visitor Question: Lately our city has been making a lot of noise about how come our black residents don't have as good of health outcomes
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Conflict about whether we should be upscale or down to earth
Visitor Question: The weather is warming up here, and so is the temperature of our neighborhood disputes. It seems like everyone is angry about something,
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Too much trash in and near the creek
March 18, 2025 Visitor Question: A group I'm involved with plans to try to clean out a little creek that runs right through the park in my neighborhood.
How will we know when we have enough affordable housing
Visitor Question:I'm an elected city councilperson in a smallish suburb; I'm in my first term in office. We have some people complaining about not enough
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Huge increase in condo fees
March 15, 2025 Visitor Question: Our COA has recently raised our assessment drastically. We have been used to paying $104 per month, with a small discount
Church noise and traffic are too much
Visitor Question: Well, it's Sunday here, I guess it's Sunday everywhere. One more time those church bells at 8:00 in the morning make me crazy. It's the
Nothing for older kids to do
Visitor Question: I looked at your community improvement ideas, but our problem is something different. We need something for the kids to do. Once they
Can our board president take on a responsibility without anyone knowing about it
Visitor Question: What happened in our neighborhood is very disappointing to me. It seems like our neighborhood association's board president told the
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Sustainable development presentation to local government and developers
Visitor Question: Do y'all have a presentation outline for someone to present to local government officials to get them interested in the topics of sustainable
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Adaptive Reuse May Yield Spectacular Results
Adaptive reuse, or converting old buildings to a new use, is an attractive means of adding distinctive and marketable housing or business to a community.
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Spring Newsletter Ideas to Brighten Up Your Neighborhood Messaging
These spring newsletter ideas are clustered into thirteen themes to make your neighborhood e-mail composition chores easier.
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A Good Community Newsletter Archive
The Good Community Plus newsletter archive contains back issues featuring original articles and resources for neighborhood and city leaders.
Septic tanks
I live in Phelan, California and I have neighbors who moved in across the street and have a mobile home. They've lived there for two years and have no
What is a biophilic city?
Visitor Question: I'm rather new on our city's planning commission. Other members have mentioned biophilic city a couple of times, and I don't know what
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