Saturday, April 26, 2014

TRASH TALK...

Long Beach sends out Citation Warning letters on trash cans  to residents at $6.48 per letter

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 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 who saw the Code Enforcement employee taking pictures of his home and other homes on the street  approached the person to inquire what was going on. The Code Enforcement  employee stated he was taking pictures of code violations. The resident received a verbal warning about his trash cans being on the side of his garage-but was told he would not get the warning letter.

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 officials and departments to try and get a local business to abide by strict Conditional Use Permit (CUP)  restrictions. It finally took a neighborhood leader a second visit to the Planning Commission (which originally authorized the CUP) with all the neighborhoods correspondents and  to finally get the city's attention and to get the CUP restrictions followed.

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.
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4 comments:

  1. AnonymousApril 27, 2014 at 2:42 AM

    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.

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  2. AnonymousApril 27, 2014 at 12:51 PM

    I 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,

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  3. AnonymousApril 27, 2014 at 3:23 PM

    Easy 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.

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  4. AnonymousApril 28, 2014 at 8:41 AM

    An 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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