Pam

The houses numbered from 227 -257 on Blake St. are badly in need of outside clean up, repair, and/or repainting .

I walked around Beecher School today and was appalled at the grounds conditions. A large tree was blown over in one section of the yard but the limbs and branches have not been removed. The garbage all around the school is gross; some of the recycling and garbage bins on the Onyx St. side are overflowing. I would think the school custodians would be on top of this and get the children's yard cleaned up. I was pleased to note that the broken playground equipment from my last visit there had been repaired.

18 wheelers are sporadically parked on Jewel St., lining the cemeteries. I understand the $20 parking violation ticket they sometimes receive is not a disincentive to stop parking there, in a residential area. Perhaps it's time for the city alders to think about raising the parking fine to actually make a difference. This is not the only place in Beaver Hills where 18 wheelers park--another spot is the intersection of Blake and Valley in the old 500 Blake St. parking lot.

At 3:15 today, I turned from Whalley up Jewel St. When I approached Beecher School, buses were waiting outside the school and five cars were parked on the opposite side of the street, 3 of them facing the wrong way. This is a no parking zone all together. Since the new curbstones were put in last summer, cars are now parked right in the street instead of off to the side of the road. It is difficult to travel through the line of buses and the illegally parked cars in front of the school. One partial solution would be to have the buses discharge and pick up children in the back of. the school where there is plenty of room to do so. That wouldn't solve the car parking problem, but perhaps parking tickets would. This has been reported for several years yet the city doesn't act on it.

This house has been reported several times and nothing has been done to it. It is a mess outside and continues to get worse.

This house has been scraped for months but no other work has occurred. It needs serious outside painting.

Outside of house is a mess. Please inspect and get owners to clean it up.

There are piles of trash in the backyard of this home, as well as a party tent which has collapsed at the back door, This home owned by a former city employee has issues which need to be addressed sooner rather than later.

Several potholes were filled a few weeks ago at this intersection yet they are already unfilled. They need to be refilled again.

This house needs much in the way in the outside painting, repairs, garbage removal, etc.

The yard at 93 Osborn Avenue is filled with junk and garbage. This property has been reported repeatedly in the past and needs some more reminders from LCI.

Two 18 wheelers are parked on Jewel St. near the cemeteries. One of them, marked WERNER, with Nebraska plate W17940, has been parked here for about a week. I have called the nonemergency police number twice about this truck. I don't see a ticket on the windshield. Also, a second truck, marked D.F. Carriers from Lowell, MA, plate 24 34276, is there today as well. We have been through this problem before and the police have been responsive in the past. I don't know why nothing has been done this time around.

This house was finally purchased this year and it seemed as if something were to be done with it. However, a dumpster was stationed in the driveway and people have come by in their dump trucks and filled the dumpster with their garbage while nothing else seems to have been done at this house. It is an eyesore and needs to be handled sooner rather than later. City of New Haven: please contact the new owner and get something going on the renovation of this house.

Many potholes at the corner of Goffe and Osborn Ave. It's quite a mess.

The concrete walls on several parts of these cemetery barriers are in great need of scraping and repainting by the cemetery owners.

The outside of this building is quite a mess. Shingles and windows are in great disrepair and not in keeping with the rest of this Beaver Hills neighborhood.

Gang graffiti is painted on this property and has been there for quite a while. The owner of this defunct garage must clean it up as well as the rest of the property.

The one-way section of Diamond St. between Blake St. and Ruby St. was NOT plowed and is a mess. My guess is that a plow went down Diamond to Ruby and couldn't turn onto the oneway section of Diamond and that whoever plowed Blake St. did not turn onto the one way section of Diamond.

The intersection of Pelham Lane and Osborn Ave. is a mess and needs clearing badly.