Posted: 3/25/2004 4:40:11 AM EDT
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I have been so impressed with the advice you all have given "Accomplice" that I thought I'd sail this one past everyone here on the board. I live in the middle of the Borough. My neighborhood is zoned C-2 which is "light duty commercial. Essentially that means low volume traffic retail stores, doctors offices, etc. There are residences mixed in and I live in one of them. My next door neighbor is a carpet and flooring store. I have NO problem with this. The problem is this. As his business has grown, he generates more and more remnants and scrap. He owns a dumpster, but it isn't big enough to hold it all. Originally, he didn't even have his dumpster contained in an enclosure (in violation of Borough ordinances) and had to be told by the Borough to enclose the thing. There are also Borough ordinances to the effect that ALL trash must be in containers WITH LIDS. But he generates a virtually continous over flow. My current plan is to photograph the over flowing refuse and document the days upon which it has been occuring (almost all the time) and then go down to Borough Hall and have a little talk with the Borough Manager. I feel it's the Borough's job to enforce its own ordinances, that's what I pay taxes for. So, I'm inviting some feedback from you all. |
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Sounds like you're on the right track here. I too own my own business and when I first got going it wasn't really a big deal. At the end of my busy season I'd have a small pile of scrap metal in the very back of the yard and another pile of rubble from gutting the inside of chimneys to install new liners. I used the rubble to fill in and terrace off my back yard and would haul off the scrap metal. Now however, I no longer need the rubble for fill and I build up much more scrap metal. So I now have a 14' flat trailer I dump everything onto and when it's loaded down I make the trip to the land fill and scrap metal yard. Sounds to me you neighbor needs to start planning time into his schedule to start making trips to the dump or gett a bigger dumpster or more of them. I'm not a pest control expert but it sounds like you're looking at a critter problem if nothing else an eye sore. |
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Take the pictures to the neighbor (the top guy) first. Say something like "Hey, I know you're busy, but it looks like your people aren't handling the trash right. See, this is what it looked like last Wednesday. Could you take care of that? Maybe get an extra collection or a second dumpster?" He [i]should[/i] appreciate the fact that you tried to spare him the aggravation of dealing with the code enforcement guy and saved him a little face. It's always worth trying to avoid pissing off the neighbors. |
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Quoted: SOunds like a plan. Also the Fire Dept might be able to help. Open trash is often considered an un exceeptable flame risk. Ha! That's a good one. I'll try that. Our neighbor to the back has started his own landfill, and we're in the middle of the restored historical district. The new renters next door keep littering the street with MD20/20 cans and KFC wrappers. That we can pick up ourselves, but the huge dump out back is a little too much effort for me the invest. Maybe I'll just take a jerry can and a matchbook? "They" move in, and you've got a fucking instant ghetto. |