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Vacant Lot Cleaning and Greening:

In June 2001, the Street Administration launched an unprecedented campaign to clean the City's more than 31,000 vacant lots. The City mobilized 19 work crews, eight front-end loaders and seven dump trucks to clean and maintain vacant lots. As of 2006, the city has completed more than 80,189 lot cleanings, cleaning every vacant lot at least once, totaling more than 53,671 tons of debris.

To encourage citizen stewardship of these lots, the city asked the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (PHS) to develop a community-based maintenance program to hire local organizations to mow the lots and remove trash. Through the Community Land Care Program, PHS selected 10 organizations that are responsible for performing basic housekeeping of these parcels.

Tree Maintenance & Planting | Anti-Graffiti Efforts
Vacant Lot Cleaning & Greening | Community Improvement &Beautification