As she turned onto Willow Street in Central City on a stormy August afternoon, Dominique LeGree’s eyes lit up.
The last time she drove the quiet residential stretch between St. Andrew and Josephine streets, the block had appeared more akin to a junkyard, lined with abandoned cars and box trucks.
But that was before LeGree, program coordinator with local nonprofit Ubuntu Village, told Mayor Helena Moreno’s office about the “absolute disaster” she was tired of driving past. City crews hauled the cars off just a few days later, leaving LeGree with her pick of parking spots…