Good day,

Thank you for contacting Roswell Code Enforcement. Your request has been received and will be forward to a code enforcement officer to investigate this complaint. All updates will be posted here when available.

Thanks,
Code Enforcement

Good day,
A code enforcement officer revisited this property on 08/02/19 and the property was in compliance at the time of investigation.

This case is now closed.

Code Enforcement

Trash all over the yard still today and the grass has not been cut.

I’d question that the enforcement officer actually went by the property and if they did their supervisor should take a look to evaluate if this meets the quality they’d expect from their team. The trash and overgrowth can be seen on both sides of the house when driving by in either direction.

If this is in compliance, there should be an explanation as to why it is and why neighbors should accept this for months. Grass is more than 10” and trash visible for months.

Good morning,

We apologize for the confusion on this complaint. After further investigation, the correct address is 9940 Hightower Rd. The compliance statement was made on 9795 Hightower Road, which is pinned as the location of violation. The property at 9940 Hightower Road has active permits for land disturbance and building permits to demolish and construct a new home. A site inspector for the Engineering division will be addressing and making sure this property remains compliance throughout the active permit.
This case will remain an open and ongoing case. Please call 770-594-6101 directly for questions.

Thanks,
Code Enforcement

Thank you! That was my mistake on where I listed the address - tried to get it close but I wasn't sure of the exact number for the house. Thank you for your help in us getting this house looking better - the grass is so tall, tons of huge weeds and trash all over the property.

Weeds are still everywhere and the grass is still over 10inches tall-

have any notices been given to this property owner who has consistently ignored Roswell city codes and left this house with Trash everywhere and abandoned for almost a year?

The Land Disturbance Permit has been issued, and land disturbance onsite has been authorized. The permit to demolish the existing building will be issued shortly. Since this is an active construction site, the code requirements for property maintenance such as mowing do not apply. The site inspector will work with the contractor to make sure all applicable code requirements are complied with during construction.

Thank you,
-Engineering Division

This will need to be discussed at the next city meeting. We need answers why nothing was done and this property has been left with trash everywhere and grass never cut when it was reported on July 30th. I understand that the Land Disturbance Permit has not been issued, but it was not when this was reported and nothing was done at all. The trash still sits and the grass and weeds were never addressed by the city for more than a month! Furthermore - this is not the first time this property has been reported in See Click Fix. This property has been an ongoing blight. So for the city to do nothing when it was reported needs explanation to the neighbors on this busy road.
Explanation needs to be made for why this was never addressed for over a month and then the property owners were allowed a permit without doing anything! As well as why no follow up was given when I followed up and asked for it several weeks ago.

Note - as of this date the property has had ZERO clean up since originally reported but has additional trash on the property now and the grass and weeds have continued to grow.

Thank you for your continued concerns about 9940 Hightower Road. Do to the amount of confusion the following summary of events is provided:

7/31/19 – compliant was logged against 9795 Hightower Road regarding property maintenance
8/1/19 – complaint was assigned to a Code Enforcement Officer for investigation
8/2/19 – Code Enforcement Officer investigation found 9795 Hightower Road to be in code compliance
8/5/19 – complaint logged again about 9795 Hightower Road regarding property maintenance; using the photos provided on 8/5/19 and reviewing the original photo posted 7/31/19, staff determined that the complaint should be against 9940 Hightower Road.

History of permit application activity for 9940 Hightower Road:
6/18/19 – Land Disturbance Permit approved and issued for demolition of existing house
6/26/19 – Preconstruction meeting held between City staff and contractor; this meeting authorizes construction activities to commence on the property, authorizes the contractor to begin installation of erosion control measures on the property, and classifies the property as an active construction site. At this time, the property maintenance portion of the City Code would be largely limited to safety related issues.
9/3/19 – installation of erosion control measures passes inspection
9/6/19 – building permit for demolition of the existing house is issued
9/9/19 – City staff visited site at 4:00 pm and verify that active construction activities are underway. Tree removal activities are observed, but observations of trash were made.

Since this is an active construction project the maintenance of weeds and grass do not apply. The site inspector will make sure that a dumpster for trash and construction debris is on site.

This item is closed. For future inquiries about this property, please email Engineering@roswellgov.com and reference application #20191337. Comments or additional SeeClickFix entries will be marked as duplicate and closed.

Thank you for your continued interest in our City!
- Community Development Team

Missing from the city "summary" above (even though the city made it clear they would not read any further comments on this issue).
6/13/19 - See click Fix issue on the same trash and grass not being cut (https://seeclickfix.com/web_portal/MajCrUMT9rXWAx1Q4VRfZQAC/issues/5961078) This is over 3 months ago! No action taken by city even though a Land Disturbance Permit had not been issued.
When bringing this lack of follow up at the next city meeting - we will request other past complaints on this property, because there were prior complaints even before 6/13 that are missing from the "summary" above.

Thank you for your continued concerns about 9940 Hightower Road. The intent of the summary provided was to specifically address SeeClickFix item #6388030 and did not include previous reports made via SeeClickFix. The City does have a history of reports filed by Code Enforcement staff in the City’s Complaint/Violation system and are aware of the prior issues reported on the property.

Staff in Community Development would be happy to discuss this property, the history of concerns raised by area citizens, as well as the process utilized by Code Enforcement. The SeeClickFix system is not the best avenue for such a conversation. Please contact lbromberg@roswellgov.com to arrange a meeting or call 770-594-6267 to have a phone conversation. We do apologize that our intentions were not well received and hope that we can assist you in understanding the City’s Code Enforcement function. We are glad to have citizens that care about the state of the City of Roswell and look forward to talking with you!

The staff is clearly not following up on complaints as the summary even shows that the issues existed months before the land disturbance permit was issued yet nothing was done. The mayor and multiple city council members will be notified directly, and we (multiple neighbors) will be asking for an audit of the system and what appears to be another example of the city not enforcing City Code for developers. This may not be a Great Wall of Roswell issue but appears to be from the same systemic issue within the enforcement teams.