Blight is an issue all over New Britain. The City needs to go after the owners of these blighted properties and get them cleaned up. The City isn’t guiltless concerning blight. Many City owned properties are overrun by vegetation and litter is scattered about. Case in point is the sidewalks up and down Slater Rd. What are residents suppose to do? Call the City endless times and request that the properties get cleaned up with no results? Call the Mayors office and have their phone calls ignored? Must we all do as one gentlemen has done when he couldn’t stand it anymore and speak of the issue at public participation and angrily demand that these properties get clean up? It seems as the only time things get done around the city is during election time.
Is this the ordinance that the mayor had to fight the Democrats on the council to finally fix because O'Brien originally wrote a defective ordinance that was unenforceable and left the city powerless to go after slumlords?
Blight is an issue all over New Britain. The City needs to go after the owners of these blighted properties and get them cleaned up. The City isn’t guiltless concerning blight. Many City owned properties are overrun by vegetation and litter is scattered about. Case in point is the sidewalks up and down Slater Rd. What are residents suppose to do? Call the City endless times and request that the properties get cleaned up with no results? Call the Mayors office and have their phone calls ignored? Must we all do as one gentlemen has done when he couldn’t stand it anymore and speak of the issue at public participation and angrily demand that these properties get clean up? It seems as the only time things get done around the city is during election time.
ReplyDeleteCome on Frank, The Herald has been the paper reporting on this subject since it all started. Why quote a paper that doesn't even care about our town.
ReplyDeleteIs this the ordinance that the mayor had to fight the Democrats on the council to finally fix because O'Brien originally wrote a defective ordinance that was unenforceable and left the city powerless to go after slumlords?
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