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Maintaining the Land
Maintenance is the key to a successful land stabilization program. All the work of stabilization—cleaning, grading, and amending the soil; planting
trees and grass; building the post and rail fence—is done by landscape contractors who are also
required to maintain the site for the next growing
season. After that obligation is met, the sites
are assigned to a land maintenance system
managed by Philadelphia Green as part of the
contract with the City of Philadelphia. Currently,
more than 5 million square feet of land are in
this system.
During the summer of 2008, six of the 15 contractors
selected were community organizations. They are
also providers of lot maintenance through the
Community-Based Vacant Land Maintenance
Program, another NTI contracted program that
manages the regular cleaning of 3,000 unimproved
lots in 16 neighborhoods.
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