Failure to remove yard waste and leaves from private property. Violates Code 12.24.030 Trees and Flora maintenance. Requirement of owners of parcels of land, adjacent to a public street, to improve and maintain the street tree lawn area, including leaf raking and brush collection. To be properly disposed.
Property owner blew leaves all over sidewalks along both Cottage Grove and Lincoln, where they have piled up and are blocking passage and making the walkways slippery and dangerous. If the City refuses to pick up leaves, they should at least follow through and fine people who blow leaves onto ther people's property or public thoroughfares. The argument that the leaves will eventually decay is specious; that line of thought could be extended to saying that there is no need for laws at all because eventually everyone alive today will one day be dead.
Heaps of leaves along the sidewalk in the street, causing parking problems. The owners must not have gotten the message that the city is not picking up leaves anymore.