Blowing Trash

Hi all,

What do you do to make sure your community stays clean? I live in a particularly windy area. In our last 3 newsletters residents have been reminded of this and requested to secure their trash and re-cycles but there has been no improvement. Trash day remains a haven for the black birds and buzzards.

While our covenants address trash by saying it has to be in a container with a closed lid it says nothing about re-cycles and some of the containers are the old boxes without a lid (county issued). There also is not authority to fine violators. Everything that gets dislodged becomes someone else’s problem in their yard and/or the common areas.

How do you motivate supposedly grown adults to properly dispose their trash?

Thanks.

Susan,

"Do you have ordinance officers in your municipality?" Not that I can find.

"Hire someone to pick it up" In your experience does this really help solve the problem or does this become a routine expense? Also, some of our homes back up to private or county property would there be a conflict if we cleaned it?

Do you have any experience with setting up an enforcement committee?

Thanks.

You MUST have some kind of blight laws in your community. (abandoned cars, tires, blowing junk, disrepaired or falling down buildings) Get on the phone to your local town or county and find out who can issue tickets.

No - I don't have any ideas on enforcement. I was being facetious

I know there is something about junk vehicles so the search is on. But check out what I found in our county code, specifically for trash collection.

"Note: Clean up in common collection areas should be shared by all. The clean up of trash that is spilled and/or spread by animals or wind is the responsibility of the resident."

Interesting . . .