Over
the past week, residents all over the Los Altos Center Adjacent Neighborhoods received a "Citation Warning Notice"
about city issued trash and recycling containers being visible from city
streets.
Each letter sent by Certified Mail cost taxpayers $6.48 each. The letters were signed by Long Beach Code Enforcement Division Officer Lei Ronca from the Department of Developmental Services.
The letter "encourages" the resident to contact "your inspector Rogelio Rodriguez at (562)570-6589" if they have any questions.
Each letter sent by Certified Mail cost taxpayers $6.48 each. The letters were signed by Long Beach Code Enforcement Division Officer Lei Ronca from the Department of Developmental Services.
The letter "encourages" the resident to contact "your inspector Rogelio Rodriguez at (562)570-6589" if they have any questions.
Each letter has an individual case number and
warns that Code Enforcement would be out again to check up on the trash can
violators with fines from $100-$200.
The
letter stated that Code Enforcement would be returning to the neighborhood to
make sure all were in compliance.
A
neighbor on Daggett street
Comments
on the Nextdoor website have been mixed, with those who have received the
strongly worded notices mostly annoyed.
For
over a year, LACAN had tried unsuccessfully with emails, pictures and numerous
letters to numerous Long Beach
City
In
addition, a documented crime spree of residential burglaries has taken place
all over Los Altos and East
Long Beach over the last months with East Division Police Officers
still hardly ever seen patrolling neighborhood streets.
It
appears that visible trash cans are a priority over the peace and well being of
a neighborhood - even during an election.
Trash cans being visible from the side of a garage or at the end of a driveway, at least 40 feet from the street and not even particularly obvious and certainly not objectionable to the neighbors are RIDICULOUS "code violations". Long Beach cites for this in all neighborhoods--not just 4th District as I was cited in my previous neighborhood after trying for months to get a dangerous cracked sidewalk repaired.
ReplyDeleteI am all for the code and hope the people with trash cans visable will get them out of sight.. WE have nice neighbors and neighborhoods and trash lans are ugly and the owners are a bit too lazy to put them away or hide them someway,
ReplyDeleteEasy answer to this....put trash cans away. Why is this even a discussion? It's in the city code.......I appreciate that the city enforces the code.
ReplyDeleteAn absolute waste of taxpayer funds. We pay people to go around and take pictures of trashcans?? How about we reassign those employees to follow the trash trucks around issue letters of reprimand every time the drivers leave the emptied trash cans all over the street? Been here for ten years - this had never been an issue - nor should it be now.
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