Southwest Warren residents urged to comment on city study report

WARREN — On state Route 45, about a mile south of the Hot Dog Shoppe, dozens of people met at New Freedom Missionary Baptist Church to find out how the Southwest side of the city is being portrayed in the city’s soon-to-be-complete comprehensive study.

It’s important that residents of Southwest Warren help shape the plans that will shape the future of Southwest Warren, said Barbara Phinisee, president of the Southwest Neighborhood Association.

“You know what? This side of town is important,” she said of the part of the city considered the city’s poorest at tonight’s meeting.

Phinisee said she has one complaint about the report: It doesn’t address the fact that there is not one grocery store in Southwest Warren, meaning residents have to travel to other parts of the city to shop.

Phinisee, David Ruffin, president of another Southwest neighborhood group called Community Concerned Citizens II, and others implored those assembled to comment on the nine pages of descriptions of various neighborhoods and corridors.

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