March 16, 2006
By Lucky Sindane
IF YOU are ever driving around Kramerville near Sandton and need some information about the area, feel free to ask for the right directions from the men in the khaki and orange uniforms.
The Kramerville Management District crime prevention and cleaning services was officially launched by Kagiso Urban Management on Wednesday, 15 March in Kramerville, in the north of Johannesburg.
Kagiso Urban Management, which administers improvement districts like Sandton Central and Rosebank, will run the latest management district.
A city improvement district (CID) or management district is a geographic area where property owners have agreed to pay a levy to fund specific services in that area.
The City still provides normal services in these districts and the levy is used to fund extra services, like safety and security patrol officers, pavement cleaning, litter collection, maintenance of public spaces and removal of illegal posters.
Kramerville will now have six public safety ambassadors on bicycles, one response vehicle with two armed safety ambassadors and four cleaners.
"The ambassadors will help tourists with customer care services. Any help they need they'll get it from the ambassadors," said Kagiso's group operations standards manager, Vaughan Leach.
The Kramerville Management District aims to:
- make Kramerville safe, clean, attractive and user-friendly by providing a range of enhanced management services;
- facilitate public and private investment;
- revitalise the CID as a desirable, commercial node;
- promote and market the businesses, assets and opportunities in the area; and
- aggressively deal with negative perceptions of the area and increase the positive factors, which will encourage investment.
The area is bounded by the M1, South Road, Katherine Road and Marlboro Drive.
"Kagiso Urban Management provides services to enhance the potential of economic nodes and business precincts through the establishment and management of city improvement districts and the provision of auxiliary precinct services," Leach explained.
"It does this by improving the physical environments, the management and marketing systems and the operating infrastructure in these areas, including local government revenue collection and generation."
City improvement districts that are already up and running include Rosebank, Sandton, Illovo, Benrose and the inner city. Kagiso Urban Management is also looking at establishing CIDs in Fourways, Midrand, Ellis Park, Yeoville, City Deep and Norwood.
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