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The people at this house have inoperable cars that haven't moved in years. Now they've brought home a short bus that they park in front of my house. When the alley is icy like it has been, the junk pickup parked parallel to the alley prevents me from using my driveway. There are many people in our neighborhood that have complained many times but nothing is ever done. A neighbor complained about the property last summer and the owner came over to my house & threatened me, telling me to mind my own business. I called the police but nothing was done. This short bus is the last straw. The city needs to enforce the codes on inoperable cars. And maybe lack of immunizations & city licenses on the 6 dogs that live there.
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An anonymous SeeClickFix user (Registered User)
Closed Jim Sberal (Verified Official)
Reopened An anonymous SeeClickFix user (Registered User)
These vehicles have not had anything done to them to remedy the situation. They got rid of one car parked next to garage but now they've shoved the short bus back there. They also put a pile of snow with a sandbag on top behind the Firebird that hasn't moved in over 3yrs to obstruct the view of the expired plates.
You should have been around on Monday. When it warmed up you could smell all of the dog waste from their 6 dogs thawing in the front yard.
Don't raise my taxes if you're not going to earn them. Please enforce the neighborhood rules.
Jim Sberal (Verified Official)
An anonymous SeeClickFix user (Registered User)
An anonymous SeeClickFix user (Registered User)
I just received notification that my issue has been open for 6 days and that i should close it if it's been fixed. This will never be fixed! As long as the city lets him get away with it, he will continue dragging junk home and hoarding it in his yard for me to have to look at. I got stuck in the alley between our houses becsuse of the stupid short bus he's got.
SO disappointed with how this eye sore is NOT being handled.
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I just received notification that this issue has been open for 121 days and that I'm to close it if it has been taken care of. Well, I'm not going to close it because it hasn't been taken care of yet. There is still the Dodge pickup that sits parallel to the alley. The owners took the garbage, boat motor and lawn mower that were sitting in the weeds on the side of their garage next to the alley and put that junk in the bed of this pickup that hasn't moved in over 2 years. City officials came to look at the property and were told that this pickup was sold and they were waiting for the buyer to get their tax refund in order to pay for and take pickup away. That was in February and the pickup is still sitting there.
They have old weeds and scrap metal piled up next to their house and 5 gallon buckets filled with dirt. Bags of cans sit outside their back door and every time the wind blows, the cans end up in my yard. If nothing changes, nothing changes! There needs to be consistent sweeps of neighborhoods for ordinance violations. Tax paying citizens shouldn't have to wait until it gets so bad that they have to report it. Why should we take care of our property if they don't have to? Rules are rules and EVERYONE should be held accountable. Tagging their property and threatening action is not an effective way to get people to follow the rules. Hit them in the bank account and they will eventually learn. This guy has a scanner and knows when the police are being dispatched to his house for parking the short bus for too long on the street so he moves it. He knows when animal control has been dispatched so he takes his pack of dogs (I'm willing to bet that they aren't current on shots or licenses) into the house. Code enforcement apparently only pertains to the "nicer" neighborhoods in town.