Please attend to this encampment. Concerned for having unregulated structures and homeless encampments directly next to our property.

Something needs to be done about this. Kids go down there. Letting them build a shanty town is ridiculous. I have to get a permit just to put in a window and the city lets people build structures on public land? Disease vector waiting to happen.

Sears Lane must be at 100% occupancy.

It's kept at just 25% occupancy with that one turn of the spicot.

This encampment remains and is beginning to gather the associated trash. In addition there is active construction underway with power tools and mixing of cement to the medium barriers. Please address this.

The only thing the city will respond to at this point, enforcement having been rendered completely ineffectual, is for the middle-class taxpayers of Burlington to withhold their property tax payments until we can be assured what our hard-earned dollars are being put toward. The City Council and Department of Public Works seem to have abdicated their responsibilities in favor of ideologically driven special interests. The laws that are on the books seem to have been abandoned. I guess Burlington public lands are up for grabs to anyone audacious enough to build on them. The next thing you will have are lawsuits disallowing the city to dismantle the structures that are going up all over Burlington's public lands. Then we'll get the standard drawn-out cycle of litigation as Burlington once again wastes tax-payer money and patience while getting absolutely nothing done.

Well put jkc

They have trespassed through our property to climb the fence to access the encampment and have removed parts of a fort structure belonging to my children to use in the building of theirs. They also have been spray painting the tarp and fence to be camouflage- lots of spray paint fumes. My elementary school kids had an individual walk between them in our yard to enter our backyard and we’re frightened running in to tell me that a stranger was in the backyard.

The illegal enclosure is gathering trash and debris. It is not being used as a camp and needs to be removed before such behavior begins. How is this issue being addressed and when will it be removed?

I can’t imagine living on South Crest and having this going on. Walking through my yard? They’d be met by me and my Chief’s Special.

That said, are you folks calling the police, or just relying on SCF to take care of it? This seems ineffective to say the least. The lack of any sort of feedback only adds to the consternation.

Someone is spending a lot of money. Who? Is it sanctioned and we’re not being told?

We have called the police multiple times.

We have contacted the mayors office, the PD, our alderman and left messages with DPW.

I did contact the Mayor's office as well.

And again today at 10:15. No reply yet

If it’s any consolation, there was a large DPW truck parked at the entrance to the connector on Home Ave when I walked past around 12:30 today. I didn’t see anyone.

So the police were taken on a tour of this today. What is the outcome?

What do the signs posted by the police on the shelter say? When made the shelter be removed? What is the next step with the skate park, the cement structures, vandalism, trash , etc.?

Nothing has been done to remove this structure or pick up the mattress and couch.

Attention residents adjoining and living in the area of the Southern Connector near Southcrest Dr. and Home Ave. having concerns about the illegal skateboard area built on the Connector.

A City licensing committee will hear a request for a waiver to keep the area open for skateboarding during a Zoom meeting on Tuesday September 29 at 5:30 p.m.

You may send written comments, before that meeting date, to Lori Olberg, staff person for the committee: lolberg@burlingtonvt.gov

She will put them on the city website at BoardDocs.

You may also ask for an agenda and to be added to a mailing list for updates and documents, and for instructions on how to sign up for the Zoom meeting.

As adjoining neighbors these are concerns:
Late night noise, vandalism, open air toilets, trash and fires continue at this skateboard site.
This area does not have easy access for city fire or police access for regular patrol.
There are no bathrooms.
We fear that a precedent set here is one that leaves the city open for further liability on other open land.
The illegal shelter attached to the sound barrier fence remains even after the city was notified earlier this summer.

There has been no contact with city officials on SeeClickFix since July. However, Councilor Chip Mason of Ward Five has just told us about the meeting and said the park stands until the City Council votes to remove it.

License Committee members are:
Councilors Jack Hanson, Chairman
Chip Mason
Jane Stromberg

This is outrageous. I will reach out to Lori about this. I’m disappointed that we weren’t notified of this as adjacent property owners. I take my child to the skate park in town, there’s a skate part at burton as well. No need for spray painting, vandalism, fires, loud parties, cutting through my yard to access this area for skateboarding. And the structure attached to the fence at the back of my yard filled with beer cans and trash. This is ridiculous.

This issue has been marked as a duplicate of issue 7757041.

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