Planning & Zoning IYO

Unkept garbage all over. Lawn & surroundings house grass knee high, screens & door broken or open. Minor children living in home with no adult supervision. Grade school children roaming neighborhood laying in street, searching out food & money from neighbors, dangerous situations. Let’s correct this before a serious accident occurs.

General blight, trash , abandoned vehicles.needs to be cleaned up

High grass and old cars and junk they collect in front of their yard

Property in general state of neglect. Lawn not maintained, dumpster in driveway for many months, etc.

House has junk on porch and is overgrown with plants.

Owner never mowes lawn or maintains property and is an ongoing issue. Backyard is overgrown with raspberries and poison ivy and houses bobcats.

very tall grass in tree lawn and front lawn.

The woman who apparently took over this house from its deceased owner, her uncle, left a car--BMW with Maine license plate 7398 XV-- and has not been back in a long time. Vegetation is severely overgrown. Mail is falling out of the mailbox. I live nearby. What can be done? Is it legal for me to clean up the yard? Can the woman be identified (from the license plate) & contacted? Thanks.

TV box and trash cans dumped on old gas station property.

Along Dixwell Avenue adjacent to the Home Depot (Store# 8473) is a streetscape approximately 175 feet in length. The landscaping is in complete disrepair and not maintained. The area is littered with debris, waste baskets are overflowing and graffiti is extensive. The Proposed Landscaping Plants that Home Depot had approved by the Town of Hamden contained 21 varieties of trees, shrubs and flowering plants. Apparently Home Depot is not a good corporate citizen as evidenced by their maintenance of this area. There also seems to be no concern for potential gang activity that might be associated with the graffiti. The Home Depot stock is traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: HD) and is included in the Dow Jones industrial average and Standard & Poor's 500 index. On May 17, 2022 Ted Decker the CEO and President of Home Depot reported the highest first quarter sales in the company's history. Net income in 2021 was $16 billion up from $11 billion and $13 billion in 2019 and 2020 respectively. Given the size of the streetscape, my layman's estimate of the cost associated with bringing this area up-to acceptable community standards is $100,000, and quite possibly more. The cost is something that Home Depot brought upon itself for not maintaining the streetscape. They're money-good to absorb this cost.

Graffiti that needs to be addressed; thanks!