Once again, I need to report excessive grass growth on the lot just west of my lot (105 E Sunny Slopes Dr, Bloomington). It is an area that doesn't appear to belong to anyone--it is the extension of what might have been planned for a street.
its every where, in town . so many plces need trash picked up. walnut street pike is real bad. smith road, south patterson, lots of misc, all over town.
Trash was picked up yesterday, our day, but the recycling bin is still on the street not collected. No notice left if there is some kind of problem.
After the snow storm two weeks ago, the street in front of my house was cleared, but not the dead end part of Brookside Drive that is beside my house. I e-mailed Joe Van Deventer, Director of Street Operations, to ask if that was an error or a new policy. I received no reply. I need to know the answer, so that I can attempt to reverse the policy if the policy for clearing snow from dead end streets has changed. As you can see in the satellite photo, I was forced to hand shovel 40 yards of Brookside Dr. to "get out" even 2-3 days after the snow storm.
S Brookside ends just past the intersection with E Sunny Sloped Dr. The past several years the City has mowed, regularly, the grassy extension of S Brookside (going north). But some years I have needed to send a reminder. The grass is getting pretty tall there now...
Trash throughout property. Great harborage for rats.
Home between S Walnut and E Washington, east of my apartment has rats coming out from the building. Garbage is piled up on the ground and around the building, creating an infestation of rats. I have seen them and heard them now in the walls of my building and have reported this to Brawley Property Management as well.
Photo taken yesterday 3/31; broken windows, door open, looks trashed
Fire / Theft / Squatting hazard. Can we talk about this nuisance location? It has had two fires in 5 months, at an abandoned house known for homeless squatters that are proven bike thieves, in a residential neighborhood. The yard is full of stolen bicycle frames and stolen firewood. The owner is an elderly 76 YO woman who lives south of the city limits. Clearly this is an abandoned / squatter sitution that is a public hazard. What do we need to tolerate?
I appreciate the progress on this squatter / fire hazard, but will simply boarding up the place solve the problem of homeless squatters using this as a bicycle chop shop? Is there anything else we can do to evict them from tearing off the plywood and squatting again? I get legal BS, but let's accelerate this and fix it. This place has been a fire hazard and theft / stripyard for years. The homeless is this area at 7AM, sitting between Grimes and Rallys, waiting to prey again - is a f'ing joke waiting to deal with privately. Do something.