Multiple days trash not emptied. Last week the recycling bin was not emptied, today (Friday) none of the trash was collected and we are enrolled in extra pickup. Now we’re faced with a trash crisis and have nowhere to put it all. Please don’t charge us for extra, as they are not retrieving trash and the office is closed.
There is a large, bed-like object that has been lying in a gully in the backyard of this property for at least a year, though it's not obvious that it is indeed on this property rather than on property that belongs to 214 or 216 E. Cottage Grove. It is right by the alley.
An old BBQ has been sitting outside along the b-line, left there by the fire company when they had their temporary station on 4th, long past time for them to clean up their mess.
The north end of this lot (adjacent to the RR fence and right next to Grant Street) is overgrown and there is a lot of trash that has accumulated in the area over the years. The trash is not as obvious during the summer when all the plants are leafed out, but right now it's easy to see it all. Broken glass and shards of metal, etc. Probably dangerous.
Trash was not picked up this past Tuesday morning 3/11/2025
Trash sitting at northwest corner of the house for a good wile now
Trash in the woods looks terrible for the neighborhood. South of railroad tracks and east of Adams st
Homeless camp trash SE corner of 2nd & Patterson
We bought a house with HAND assistance at 1400 S. Palmer. The Dunn Hill painted houses are one block to the east. The 1300 block and 1400 block of South Palmer are well maintained residences, some owner-occupied, some rental. Now, I pay a lot of taxes for my house and yard. A lot. And I hope to see some benefit from doing that in terms of the trash problems at 1316 and 1317 South Palmer. Both residences bring down my property value immensely. They are total trash dumps. I collect trash from the street every week and the trash pickup. It's 99% things that people throw from their cars or just walking by. But those two places simply generate their own trash. I pick it up. But I'm tired of picking it up. I need some help. These two places sit opposite each other. The one of the west of the street is some kind of used car business. This would not be allowed on Dunn Street, just a block away. The place on the east of the street, they never deal with their trash, trash, junk, you name it. Please help.
I found a bunch of Heroin Syringes on the ground between the apartment buildings. Lame that people would shoot up just right in the grass out in front of the building, then toss the shit onto the ground uncapped. Not hard to see why people don't have a lot of sympathy for addicts.