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The Location of the Old Sweet Mel's restaurant.
I wrote in approximately 2 weeks ago. In taking a bike ride through downtown today toward Depot Park for lunch at Pop A Top, I encountered the same trash accumulation I reported on 2 weeks ago. That issue was clearly not addressed and now there is additional trash present. This is a main thoroughfare to our downtown area. The City Mayor and Commissioners are stating they would like to improve the Downtown/East side of Gainesville yet this particular issue goes seemingly unchecked. The owner of the property, per public record is a local urologist. It is unfortunate that there are folks in this town who choose to litter and not take pride in themselves and our town but it is the owners responsibility to ensure their property is managed properly and kept clean. If this were public property, certainly the City would put our taxpayer dollars to work to clean the area. The fact that it is privately owned posses a different issue. Please, take action. Is this what we want for Gainesville? Is this the picture we want for our "New American City" ad??