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.

towing vehicles illegally parked would be a good start. after all, they were abandonded (or parked unattended) knowingly by the owners...

they wont stop. it been an overlooked issue here for years.

We have already re-erected some signs and Capt. Niemann's officers have been increasing enforcement here. I will ask if there is anything more we can do and will update when they have responded.

Thank you for taking the time to report this issue. The west side of Flint Place is no parking anytime between Park and Ashe. Work order #295496 has been submitted for the missing signage. Please allow a week for the signs to be installed.

I've referred this to our Public Works Department. I will update this issue when I have heard back from them. Thanks for reporting.

The intersection of Centennial Parkway and Oval Drive has a no right turn on red mainly due to the greenway section crossing Oval Drive. The ADA wheel chair ramps dictate where the marked crosswalk will go and the stop bar location is dictated by the marked crosswalk. Stop bars should be located four feet behind any marked crosswalks. This is per the Federal Highway Administration’s Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD). Since the stop bar is located almost 50’ back from the intersecting road, the sight distance is not adequate for right turns on red if measured behind the stop bar. For further inquiry, please contact Jed Niffenegger via email at jed.niffenegger@raleighnc.gov.

I will have our inspector keep an eye out if anything else turns up on this property.

Unfortunately, this is one of those deals where there are no houses on that side of the street and someone just dumped it there. Unless I did not see it still there on the way home, it appears to been picked up. Recommend CLOSE issue.

Generally we work with the property owner to get the couch removed. Our regular Solid Waste Services trucks do not pick up anything this big. We do offer a free bulky load pickup if the property owner does not wish to remove the couch on their own, but this is a different crew and a different truck and is pre-scheduled.

Maybe soon, Thanks

City trucks must of traveled down Kyle today (Fri) Could they not possibly already picked it up? Still there as of 5pm Fri.

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.

This intersection does not have any pedestrian infrastructure such as sidewalks and wheelchair ramps. The city and NCDOT does not install pedestrian crosswalks or signals with out infrastructure in place. There is a corridor study planned for later this year that will look at Wilmington Street from Downtown to Tryon Road. This study will include the feasibility of providing pedestrian accommodations in the future.