You Can Lead A Horse To A Spiffy Pedestrian Mall . . .

But then the horse sees a group of ne’er-do-wells congregating in front of the Walgreens and decides not to go in:

Kensington residents are shooting down the city’s plan to turn Church Avenue and Beverly Road into a “Parisian” plaza teeming with benches and trees, claiming that the proposed champs elysees will become a home base for neighborhood hoodlums.

“We don’t need more people hanging out,” [a resident] said as she slammed the changes proposed for the corner, where the city wants to bring three benches, three trees, granite bollards and a bike rack to a large patch of concrete in front of a Walgreens. “People already congregate there and if I see a crowd in front of Walgreens, I won’t go in!”