This level is all too often ignored in planning discussions and yet it comprises an important policymaking space at the intersection of dwelling and the neighborhood and includes the front of the home, the street, sidewalks, and small-scale commercial activities (both fixed spot and itinerant). Rights over the use of these non-private spaces and public access is often confused and ambiguous, and access is often impeded by a wide range of informal activities such as: cars parking on the sidewalk, garage extensions or staircase construction to the second floor from the sidewalk, the storage or dumping of building materials; economic activities (stalls), and even by daytime extensions of workshop activities out into the street (carpentry, welding, car repairs, etc.). Sidewalks become impassable as a result, and pedestrian traffic including mothers with young children and pushchairs are forced into the street. Policy making at this level needs to focus upon community and local participation and upon achieving consensus among neighbors about self-regulation and permitted activities. These might include measures such as single-side parking, the removal of obstructions, partial street closures, etc. Principal actors: NGOs; Neighborhood and street “associations”; local governments and municipal policing to play an honest-broker role.