Can official neighborhood plans curb gentrification?

St. Petersburg city council members recently heard how implementing neighborhood plans can increase community safety, spur economic development and even stem gentrification in predominantly Black neighborhoods, among many other benefits.

Local leadership began the official acceptance process of a neighborhood plan for the first time since 2009 at the Jan. 12 Housing, Land Use and Transportation Committee meeting. It is the first update to the Campbell Park initiative since 2004.

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Comedian Caroline Rhea plays the Palladium Saturday

In airports, in the neighborhood grocery store or after a PTA event at her daughter’s school, comedian and actress Caroline Rhea always gets recognized from the 1996-2003 series Sabrina the Teenage Witch; for all seven seasons, she starred as Sabrina’s dotty aunt Hildegarde Spellman. “I’m called Aunt Hilda every day,” Rhea explains.

Fame, of course, is a fickle thing, as she is constantly reminded: “Today at Pilates this woman said ‘Oh my God, you’re so funny. I haven’t seen you on TV in a while.’”

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