Yes, absolutely. This wakes me up most nights! It seriously affects the quality of life in Founders Row, at least in the units that face the street.

If it's a violation of the city noise ordinance, then that should absolutely be enforced, even for city services such as recycling pickup.

We need to protect the rights of our downtown residents. I am sorry to hear about your disturbances. Yeah, I have emailed council members before and have never, ever received a single response, unfortunately...

Thank you for the response! I would suggest the intersection of Blake and Martin St. There is no residential building across from/next to that intersection.

Because of the volume of recycling generated in downtown, at the request of the business owners we do a late-night pickup throughout downtown. I will notify the Solid Waste Services Department. Maybe they can work out a different location for these particular cans. I will update when they have responded.

I don't think your response is very neighborly and is exactly the type of personal interaction I'd rather avoid. You imply that I'm unneighborly, unfriendly, afraid of my neighbors and attacking them by "siccing" (1. To set upon; attack. 2. To urge or incite to hostile action) the city on them. I'm going to choose to think that you didn't mean it that way, but when you start your comment with "This is so unneighborly" it's hard to take it as anything but a personal attack.

It sounds like you want to do what the city does but have you mediate things instead of the government officials and use your private group instead of the public forum of SeeClickFix. Hopefully all the city employees are neighborly so I'm not sure I see any benefit of doing this through private actors instead of public ones.

I've submitted these types of request before in Boylan Heights and Glenwood South and find they get taken care of quite quickly. This is the first time I've seen the response be that there is a "public nuisance case" initiated. Normally the response is just that they say they'll clean it up and they do. In fact I submitted another case right down the street at the same time yesterday and it's already been cleaned up. I'm not sure what the city means by "initiated a public nuisance case". Maybe it just means no one was home so they left a form, maybe it means there have been recurring problems at this location, maybe it means the homeowner was a jerk about it and so the inspector made it an official case. Whatever the reason, I expect the result will be better because it was a city official and not me (or you).

If you want to be neighborly, have all the sidewalks in Boylan Heights (and the Glenwood South/Cameron Village area) maintained so they're not overgrown with vegetation. That would make it easier for people to walk the neighborhood and allow everyone to be more neighborly.

This is so unneighborly. Approaching your neighbor personally would be much kinder than siccing the City on them. Afraid to approach the owner of the problem property in Boylan Heights? Contact me and I will be happy to confidentially appeal to the neighbor to fix the problem. Anonymity is great but not necessarily friendly.

Or leave an anonymous note under my door at 422 Cutler Street and I will be glad to investigate the problem and contact the owner of the property before the City has to pay them a visit. Then I will send an update through our neighborhood Google Group.

I am sorry to see ClickFix becoming a vehicle for petty complaints which could be resolved with a little personal interaction..

Elizabeth Dunbar

Our inspector has visited this site and has initiated a public nuisance case with a deadline of June 4, 2012. The inspector will follow up to make sure it gets cleared.

Thanks for reporting. I have referred this to the City’s Housing and Environmental Inspections Division. When they have responded I will update this issue.

Thanks, the branch has been cut and the light has been fixed some time this week.

This request will be addressed with a federally funded project in the next couple of years that will improve several pedestrian intersections throughout the downtown central business district.

Our inspector has been in contact with the property owner, who has agreed to clean up the yard in the next few days to avoid a second citation. I will leave this open for now until he gets it cleaned up.

I am reopening this as clearly the inspector spent little effort actually inspecting the backyard of this property. There are multiple sources of standing water and there is an infestation of mosquitoes. There IS a great deal of refuse in the back - largely spent cans and liquor bottles, which also fosters mosquitoes. There is a large amount of trash in the front yards that includes cans, discarded clothing, bottles. Whoever went over there and signed off on that needs to clean their glasses.

The inspector did inspect the entire property, but the amount of trash in the back yard did not constitute a violation of the nuisance regulations.

I will check with the inspector about the back yard. We can only require that he remove anything that would constitute a public nuisance under our ordinances. He can leave the property vacant as long as it is secured (boarded or otherwise secured from illegal entry), keeps the grass cut and does not allow trash to accumulate in the yard to the extent that it constitutes a nuisance. The police have more leverage to arrest trespassers if he posts a "No Trespassing" sign. Unfortunately our laws are not designed to turn everyone into a responsible homeowner, only to enforce a set of minimum standards.

Thank you for your attention to this issue. While i am glad that the glass, trash and overgrowth have somewhat been cleared from the sidewalk, I would also like the trash on the property removed including empty beer bottles, liquor bottles from the back yard.
Could you be more specific when you say "stabilize and secure the property?"
I would hope that the owner would be proactive in responding to these issues as opposed to having to respond to them based off of complaints from neighbors every few months. I sincerely hope that I do not have to reopen this issue in 3 weeks due to continued neglect.

We have made a couple of arrests for trespassing, have contacted the property owner and are working with him to stabilize and secure the property and post "No Trespassing" signs.

The glass, trash and overgrowth have been cleared. I am still awaiting a report by the Police.

Other people are concerned as well. I will close this one for now and track the issue here:

http://seeclickfix.com/issues/186770-illegal-parking

This sign was erected by TTA. They are responsible for its content. We have informed them. Please see the contact info below if you want to follow up with them also.

The original issue was about the bus stop sign and no parking sign painted over by graffiti.
The CIty of Raleigh "fixed" the signs by putting up a new bus stop sign and a new no parking sign. The new sign put up by the City of Raleigh is wrong. The CIty should be responsible for fixing the mistake they made.

The City installed the new bus stop sign with the wrong route numbers on it. Anyone with a little common sense would have checked into the correct route numbers before sticking them on the sign if they didn't know the correct routes. and should own up to their error and fix it.

These signs are TTA's responsibility. We have notified them. TTA does not track See Click Fix inquiries, but you can follow up directly with them:

http://www.triangletransit.org/

Downtown District and SW District officers have been operating a special project around this issue. No violations have been observed by the DTD Officers in regards to the loud motorcycle complaints on Bloodworth, nor have they observed any drag racing on West Morgan Street . The officers will continue to look for these specific violations. If they catch anyone in the act there is a specific subsection of the Prohibited Noises City Ordinance that may actually be enforced with these specific complaints so we will attempt to issue a citation if we can (Sec. 12-5007(c)).

We have been in contact with the property owner. They will prune this today.

Thanks for reporting. I have referred this to the City’s Housing and Environmental Inspections Division. When they have responded I will update this issue.

Fixed!

Actually C is relevant. It is the ability to cite for nighttime disturbance that will give officers the ability to issue a citation using the complaints that have already been filed on SCF.

I think you mean section D.

Downtown District and SW District officers have been operating a special project around this issue. No violations have been observed by the DTD Officers in regards to the loud motorcycle complaints on Bloodworth, nor have they observed any drag racing on West Morgan Street . The officers will continue to look for these specific violations. If they catch anyone in the act there is a specific subsection of the Prohibited Noises City Ordinance that may actually be enforced with these specific complaints so we will attempt to issue a citation if we can (Sec. 12-5007(c)).

This is actually working as it is designed. Stormwater that filters into the area behind the secant wall is allowed to leak out into this area by design rather than build up behind the wall.

I've referred this to the Convention Center staff. When they've responded I will update this issue.

I will pass this on to the Parks staff. When they have had a chance to respond I will update this issue.