NEW SMYRNA BEACH — A proposed Community Redevelopment Area here accounts for more than half of the city’s crime and almost 40 percent of it’s code enforcement problems.
That’s according to a study by Kimley-Horn and Associates of blighted conditions in the prospective CRA that would have U.S. 1, called Dixie Freeway in New Smyrna Beach, as its core. The firm is working on a “master plan” to help fix those and other problems and is looking for feedback from residents, business owners and community leaders at a series of daylong meetings slated for Aug. 8.