City officials will present recommendations on how to address gentrification and changes in inner-city neighborhoods at three public meetings over the next two weeks.

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The meetings will give the public a chance to weigh in on the short and long-term recommendations of a mayoral task force created to address gentrification. The group, called the Mayor’s Task Force on Preserving Dynamic and Diverse Neighborhoods, launched last year following the closing of a South Side mobile home park and dispersal of its residents.

The first meeting will be held at 6 p.m. Wednesday at Tafolla Middle School, 1303 W. César E. Chávez Blvd., on the West Side. The second meeting will be at 6 p.m. Thursday at the Ella Austin Community Center, 1023 N. Pine St., in the Dignowity Hill neighborhood on the East Side — a neighborhood currently undergoing a lot of revitalization and change.

The last meeting will be at 6 p.m. March 26 at the Central Library downtown, 600 Soledad St.

The West Side and East Side events will both be town hall meetings, so members of the public will be able to speak. The meeting at the Central Library is an open house.

Task force members already presented their findings to the City Council Quality of Life meeting last month; they will later take the proposals and public feedback to the full council at a Wednesday B-session meeting.

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