As many of you have written and discussed on this forum, we have been noticing a decline in the upkeep of homes and especially yards in the area.  This is such a beautiful area and a wonderful place to raise a family.  We hate to see the decline.  
While discussing this problem, we came to the conlusion that a lof of the people who are not keeping their property up might just not be able to due to age, disability, work schedule, etc.  Would any of you who agree with us on wanting to keep up the area, be willing to join a volunteer group of people who would offer to maintain yards in the area?   This is just in the brainstorming stages on our part, but would love to get some feedback from others on the forum.  Complaining amongst ourselves hasn't seemed to work very well, so maybe we could try to be a little more proactive to help both ourselves and others  

I'll be more than happy to help. I have a riding lawnmower and a push mower. Just let me know what we need to do.

Just some thoughts:
 
THe group that is going to do this would need to have some sort of structure, kind of like the neighborhood watch:  
*Leader-
*Yard work Volunteers/Phone List-
*Advertisement / Flyers-
*A way for people to contact if they need help- an email address set up of one person for them to call and then the person assigns a volunteer to go cut yard or whatever.. you might could base it by area of Bluff Park.. one or 3 people cover "so many streets"
 
Some General Rules to think about:
pick age limits to volunteers ex: 19 and up or do we want to go let minors help
work in  groups of 2 for someone we dont know
will we accept donations?
 
I think with the churches, if you go to church in this area or know someone who does, ask in the church who you need to talk to about notifying the congregation that there is a volunteer group helping with distressed yards for older residents or people who are unable to keep up their yard.
 
we might have to come up with a contract or release form for the owner to sign about "not being responsible for plants that die or dead grass etc."