Mountain Man
Senior Member
Does the city take care of this, or is it up to property owners?
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northlands
Senior Member
Depends on the location. Private property is obviously private ownership responsibility to clean up. In @TAS photos, I believe those are City maintained shrub beds, so the City would be responsible for cleaning up litter within.
However, it's certainly appreciated when private property owners help out picking up litter rather than waiting for the City to do it.
TAS
Senior Member
A lot of the garbage in and around the area seems related to the convenience store and certainly in behind their building where the larger dumpsters are - lots of garbage builds up along the metal fencing and that is often area people tend to rest.
I've picked garbage in some of these shrub beds, this one is very littered and just continues to build up again.
Habibfazil
Active Member
Thankfully the city clean up crew handled this mess from Sunday at Capilano area park on Monday
David A
Senior Member
In a better world, we could have nicer spaces, but until some of the more fundamental issues related to downtown are better dealt with this will remain difficult.
Greenspace
Senior Member
City doesn't usually have temp summer crews staffed until mid June. Most of that is outside the Downtown BIA so it won't get the 'enhanced cleaning' treatment. Really need community groups to step up where the City doesn't or can't. I realize this is Jasper Avenue however all the City is treated the same, the core rarely gets prioritized by Operations over other parts of the City.
Avenuer
Senior Member
People living in the area could help pick up litter for like 10 mins a day and we'd see big improvements I think. There is a vacant lot near my new place that has tall grass and just attracts garbage and I went with one of those garabge picker claw things and an empty garbage can and picked it all within 10 mins or so. Private property I know but the owner doesn't care based on the condition of the vacant property.
Yeggy
Active Member
What happened to the anti graffiti bylaws and removal program?
archited
Senior Member
Time to reconstitute the Guardian Angels?
TAS
Senior Member
Businesses, too! It would be nice if maybe Circle K or the liquor store came out and cleaned the broken glass on the sidewalk nearby.
But in terms of the bollards that have been tampered with and the one removed and thrown in the shrub bed, hopefully it's not too many more days before the city gets to it since it was reported 3 days ago now.
Yeggy
Active Member
Would rather not thanks.. In this current political environment the ideologies and people an organization like this would attract would be more akin to the proud boys.
Various chapters have had issues with harassing people without homes and biased targeting of various ethnic or marginalized people.
Lastly there is no evidence the group actually had any effect on crime in New York in the 70’s/80’s
The head of the group has been married 4 times and his life largely reads of one who has grifted his way into his upper east end apartment where he is now effectively a cat lady.
Yeggy
Active Member
Exactly.. Imagine if you treated the sidewalk directly outside your business like you did the inside. If we all simply spent 5 min a month sweeping the sidewalk or picking up trash it be an instant transformation.
side note the city is markedly cleaner since the lidded garbage carts arrived, now if only our street cans wernt giant ugly aggregate trash cyclones. I mean Walt Disney created a hinged and covered trash can some 75 years ago. you think we would catch up.
David A
Senior Member
chrisvazquez7
Active Member
Maybe we should have a summer sidewalk program similar to snow clearing in winter. You would be responsible for keeping the boulevard and sidewalk in front of your property clear of litter and swept/washed if needed.
IanO
Superstar
I just do not get why property owners accept that in front of their commercial (or residential) properties to begin with.