Council wards could revive neglected areas

Council wards in neighborhoods could revive neglected and forgotten areas of the city.

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No council member lives in southwestern Detroit. Nor do they live in the city's most distressed areas. Their homes are all clustered in a few neighborhoods.

"They don't smell this every day like I do," says Arreguin, who chairs the Advocacy Committee of Greening of Detroit. "If they did, they probably would do something quickly."

This lack of representation in neighborhoods that activists call "forgotten Detroit" has revived the effort to restore a ward system to Detroit for the first time in 90 years. Both mayoral candidates support a change from at-large representation to districts, and some proponents believe momentum is building.

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