yep thanks to bylaw who do nothing!

I agree that alot of areas are allowed to succum to ruin. Face it with the amount of landlords who don't screen nor care about who they rent to, areas with older homes often become the target. And then like our Mayor so nicely put it, the west side is a discrace to our city. It is time people to take back our city and demand that landlords are responsible to whom they rent to. We to live in a "troubled area" actually on crater street.........landlords down here only care about the rent cheques! As a home owner, we put up with alot of grief, from landlords who simply think they own the entire street. So when their lawn gets long, garbage in the yard,...animals not tied up,....etc. we as land owners, call the city. That is what bylaw is supposed to be about! I believe that if we all banded together soon their so called "power" in our neighbourhood would vanish and they would have to bring up their homes for families to live in. So people start reporting so they are forced to do their jobs as landlords. Lets make our city a better place to live!

I have to agree.
We bike ride every night and its sadly noticable. It would be nice if the bylaw officers and our council would care, instead of just increasing our taxes.
Our fine city looks dirty. Some major streets could use the street cleaner one more time this summer!
I realize someone will have something negative to say on this. But just go for a drive, even some nice areas and new homes.
People - if you can afford to buy a nice house, you can afford to cut your grass and pull your weeds.
One of the homes in our new crescent uses their front yard as a parking lot for 7 cars.

well our mayor will not do one thing about those smummy landlords because of who they are!!

yep, know thanks to that mayor who will not do something about it either!

Low rental is good in theory, but a nightmare if they are your neighbor, you never know what you are going to get. I believe that are local slum lords should have to clean up there act. On there rental properties, they are paying the lowest taxes, with the same services. In some cases more services because the cops are there twenty or thirty times a year. .Maybe the city should charge the slum lords for the cops hourly wage,
everytime they are called there. As for the houses, condem them and tear them down. There an eye sore from the outside imagine thw insides.

Instead of bylaw officers driving around looking for garage sale signs ..go check out yards, and people that OWN their own home do not look after their yards also.. grass high.. weeds high, and those that look after yards have to put up with dandelion seeds etc flying over..corner house on 2nd ave and 27th west is a real eye sore, yard and building ..and this is the main street through our city..tourist attraction .. city c'mon. Now if the city wants to do something about garage sales ..sell a 10 buck licence, let them put their signs up, if they don't remove then fine them....

I would like to see neighbourhoods have an established "owner-occupied" to "rental" ratio especially for single family homes that are housing far more tenants than they should be, and landlords having to comply to a licensing standard. Keep up the pressure on City Hall. Together we can bring this city back .

It isnt just the west flat that needs work, its all areas of the city (besides where the mayor and councillers live) thats just fine.....and Scarrow plaza is always clean....

We NEEEEEEDDDDD to have bylaws in this city ENFORCED to those scrummy rentals and slumlords....city council is just hoping all of this gets swept under the rug, but we have to keep on them....

CLEAN UP THIS TOWN AND LET THE TAXPAYERS ENJOY THE POTENTIAL THAT IT HAS, AND THE BEAUTY THAT IT ONCE HAD!!!

FOR GOSH SAKES CITY COUNCIL, DO SOMETHING USEFUL WITH YOUR CURRENT COUNCIL!!

In some cases, the slum landlord is the Province of Saskatchewan.

Everyone is in agreeance in this forum, thats for sure!
When I hear us called the "Gateway to the North" I imagine travellers driving through our city on their way to our fantastic lakes, towing campers and boats.
What an eye sore our city must be as their passing through, whether they simply drive down 2nd Ave or stop into Walmart for supplies. Our city is dirty, plain and simple.
Weeds and garbage everyone, houses along major streets with boarded up carports (if you can even call them that?), and fences peiced together.
Where is this city's pride? Why aren't bylaws being enforced?

So what's the plan to fix this problem? Grab trash bags and pick up garbage? Talk to our neighbors and offer to help them with their yardwork? Or cry about how lazy bylaws officers and the courts are? Come on, Prince Albert, if we really care about this city, then lets put our money where our mouths are and clean this place up!

Your not getting the point of the problem....no one is lazy, it not about getting garbage bags. If you would have read the issues, you would have understood that landlords are to blame, and if you lived next to this issue, you would get it. People need to understand you can't just pull down your zipper and pee on your neighbors step just because it happens to be the closest thing to where your standing. They need to understand that grass is to be cut and fence boards are meant to stay where they are.
I think some people need to fully understand a problem, and see that resolutions and fixes are discussed, but city hall sweeps it under the rug because "friends" own property. The slumlords are making too good of a living cashing cheques from the provincial and federal governments every month without putting any effort into it. Guaranteed easy Money.

we need all of city council to step up to the plate!! even if it is not their ward!

Not sure what block you were on but to say such a generalized statement is offensive. Myself and my neighbors keep up our properties and work very hard to set an example in our neighborhood. Yes, we are aware of some properties that are in need of help and clean up but please do not label "most" as being in disarray. Actually, there is alot of renewal in the progress.

i totally agree tho... i live next to a few houses that are really bad even my neighbor in my upfront suite lets her kids just litter all over doesnt pick anything up and just throws her trash in my back yard doesnt even take it to the trash can! so then im left to pick up after her so that my dog doesnt eat her trash!

I agree, Prince Albert does need to be cleaned up and by-laws enforced. Everywhere you look there is litter/garbage on the ground. The city should start a "Do no Litter" campaign and stress the penaties of littering. It has to start somewhere and the residents will take more pride in thier city in keeping it presentable to visitors and potential residents.

The last guy has it right the whole city is a mess city boulevards and parking lots and all city owned properties the worst of the worst. It's an attitude that council and city admin needs to fix but not likely to happen.

All I can say is good luck. This city counsil is an embarrassment, and one poster had it right. There's too many "friends" who all are in it for themselves. You can't tell me that counsil members are oblivious to how gross downtown is, and how bad city owned property is looked after. They know it, see it, and simply don't care.

I grew up in Prince Albert from 76 to 94 it WAS a beautiful city. Back then a person could walk anywhere and not be afraid, kids could play in the park without stepping on needles or getting beat up, you could walk down central and do shopping without wondering is someone gonna get hurt, even the westend was beautiful back then................................ Now i wouldn't raise my dog there that city is trashed i wouldn't even temp to go near the central area when i come to visit relatives i will not let my kids leave the house taking them there is like bringing them to prison. Prince Albert was once voted a top city to raise a child in back in the day now it isn't even livable.

embarassed to say, but i used to care about the boulevards/sidewalk area surrounding my house but in the last few years with property taxes, water rates, etc increasing, i only look after what's IN my yard. i'm tired of picking up other peoples garbage, needles and disgarded clothing and maintaining city property, the city has people to do it that don't. it's not my job to see that it's enforced, someones getting paid for a job they aren't doing.