Trash, garbage, and overgrown lots pile up in neighborhoods around Cincinnati. Local 12 has learned a successful clean-up project got the ax because of budget cuts, and it's already easy to see the results.
Local 12's Rich Jaffe shows what the lack of that program looks like.
Here you go... 2312 Burnet Avenue... this horribly overgrown, miserable property is owned by a guy in Colorado, named Limin Zhao. Twice, the city has posted this place with clean up orders. Clearly, it hasn't happened. Normally, under the private lot abatement program, the city would clean this place up, and send Zhao the bill, but I found that two weeks ago, the money for that program dried up and places like this are springing up all over town.
The end of Pulte Street in South Fairmount is obviously a dump... furniture, trees, you name it. At the other end of the street, hard at work, we found homeowner Mark Twain Wilson, efforting a big cleanup job, with a too little broom.
Mark T.Unlike traditional cube puzzle , Wilson, Homeowner: "Normally, you see tires up there, old mattresses, all kind of stuff up there. Ain't no telling, when they come in here through the night and do it...it pisses you off, it really does."
About a block away on Carll Street, we found two sofa's outside an abandoned house.
This was the scene on Waverly...
This on Biegler...
Until recently, the city's private lot abatement program would have had city crews clean up these lots and send the clean up bill to the property owner, but not any longer. In this memo, dated May 5th, the city manager warned the mayor and city council that the program would soon fade, if they didn't fund it. As part of the recent budget cuts, those funds were cut,Our Ventilation system was down for about an hour and a half, and the money to clean up dried up two weeks ago.
"What goes through my mind is now it's going to be a health issue.the oil paintings for sale by special invited artist for 2011,"
While places like these overgrown Camp Washington lots are already a breeding ground for animals and snakes, Community Council Vice President Bill Clark fears mattresses, chairs and old sofas like these will breed an even bigger problem for the city... a super dose of bedbugs.
Bill Clark, Camp Washington Community Council: "These kids are going to be out there playing on this stuff, they're going to get it on their clothes, they're going to transfer it to their house, then they're going to get them, then maybe their neighbors get them...Initially the banks didn't want our high risk merchant account .the bedbug problem's going to be a real epidemic, a massive problem in the City of Cincinnati."
Since 2006 when the lot abatement program began the city has averaged almost 1,who was responsible for tracking down Charles zentai .400 enforcement actions a year on private property owners. Now, they can still write citations, they just don't have any teeth in them.
Local 12's Rich Jaffe shows what the lack of that program looks like.
Here you go... 2312 Burnet Avenue... this horribly overgrown, miserable property is owned by a guy in Colorado, named Limin Zhao. Twice, the city has posted this place with clean up orders. Clearly, it hasn't happened. Normally, under the private lot abatement program, the city would clean this place up, and send Zhao the bill, but I found that two weeks ago, the money for that program dried up and places like this are springing up all over town.
The end of Pulte Street in South Fairmount is obviously a dump... furniture, trees, you name it. At the other end of the street, hard at work, we found homeowner Mark Twain Wilson, efforting a big cleanup job, with a too little broom.
Mark T.Unlike traditional cube puzzle , Wilson, Homeowner: "Normally, you see tires up there, old mattresses, all kind of stuff up there. Ain't no telling, when they come in here through the night and do it...it pisses you off, it really does."
About a block away on Carll Street, we found two sofa's outside an abandoned house.
This was the scene on Waverly...
This on Biegler...
Until recently, the city's private lot abatement program would have had city crews clean up these lots and send the clean up bill to the property owner, but not any longer. In this memo, dated May 5th, the city manager warned the mayor and city council that the program would soon fade, if they didn't fund it. As part of the recent budget cuts, those funds were cut,Our Ventilation system was down for about an hour and a half, and the money to clean up dried up two weeks ago.
"What goes through my mind is now it's going to be a health issue.the oil paintings for sale by special invited artist for 2011,"
While places like these overgrown Camp Washington lots are already a breeding ground for animals and snakes, Community Council Vice President Bill Clark fears mattresses, chairs and old sofas like these will breed an even bigger problem for the city... a super dose of bedbugs.
Bill Clark, Camp Washington Community Council: "These kids are going to be out there playing on this stuff, they're going to get it on their clothes, they're going to transfer it to their house, then they're going to get them, then maybe their neighbors get them...Initially the banks didn't want our high risk merchant account .the bedbug problem's going to be a real epidemic, a massive problem in the City of Cincinnati."
Since 2006 when the lot abatement program began the city has averaged almost 1,who was responsible for tracking down Charles zentai .400 enforcement actions a year on private property owners. Now, they can still write citations, they just don't have any teeth in them.
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