Posted on 11/12/2019 6:35:58 PM PST by Hojczyk
Upon seeing this story, you might be tempted to think it was about San Francisco, but it actually takes place in Denver, Colorado. Jawaid Bazyar is the owner of a communications company named FORETHOUGHT.net. His building is adjacent to an alley where groups of homeless people, prostitutes and drug addicts hang out. Recently, the problem has spiraled out of control and people have been urinating and defecating in the alley, along with leaving discarded hypodermic needles on the ground.
Despite having complained to the police repeatedly, nothing seemed to change and Bazyar grew distraught at the prospect of his employees having to clean up the potentially hazardous waste. The city of Denver responded by issuing him a citation and fining him for not keeping the property clean. (CBS Denver)
The point the owner is trying to make with the city is that he and his employees are neither trained nor equipped to deal with human waste and hypodermic needles, both of which could potentially carry disease. He describes it as a health hazard and blames the city for not enforcing laws against drug use, prostitution, public defecation and camping on the alleys and sidewalks.
The city disagreed and has informed him that he will be facing additional fines and fees as long as he continues to fail to clean up the alleyway.
The alley is technically Bazyar’s property, so he’s responsible for the upkeep as any business would be. But those rules seem to rely on the assumption that the alley might be filled with the normal garbage and litter one tends to find in city alleyways. This is something very different, and if the city is unwilling or unable to clear out the alley and stop these activities
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If the alley is his property as the city states then he should build a brick wall and block it off or install a gated fence.
Ha...the “City” would probably not let him do that.
That’s what I was thinking. It it’s his property, he should just close it off.
I’d wash the crap out in the street with a high pressure hose (think fire hose, not pressure washer)... At all hours of the night, when the rats come out to play.
Use a flame thrower to clean it up. Only safe way to deal with hazardous waste.
Denver is not the city that I lived in 1979-1981.
Makes sense to me. After all, people are expected to clean up their dog poop.
He’s going to have to move. They won’t understand anything else. His city is tripling down on Stupid.
Sort of like near me in San Francisco.
Reminds me of when I owned rental property in San Diego. Four garages faced an alley and were frequently subject to graffiti. I was held responsible by the city to promptly restore/remove the blight. This was also during a period when “taggers” were defacing freeways by dumping buckets of paint onto the pavement and marking freeway pillars with ugly graffiti. This continued until a couple of the most egregious vandals were sent up the river.
Careful.
Nasty trolls don’t like the truth about the consequences of legalized drugs revealed.
Ten years later ( and tens of thousands of attorney fees later) he would be **denied** his fence.
That’s my answer as well. Wash that crap onto the streets with some high power hoses.
Close off the alley?
Yea, your gonna need a permit from the city, but first a survey, impact fee assessment, fire dept buyoff in writing which will need another study, an environmental impact study, and tennant lanlord hearing in court because you let them live there...
But otherwise. A couple hundred grand and five years.. No problem
And some cleaner with very high ammonia concentration. And pipe Barney the Dinosaur music out there.
We have problems in alleys here in Phoenix. A cheap camera pointed at the alley (high, out of reach) might help. A motion detector triggering a flood lamp may also deter some. If it is not a residential area, streaming of Bach or Chopin music ruins the mood for druggies. If classical is not your style, you can go with Barry Manilow, Bread, The Association and the Carpenters.
Colorado has gone to hell, which is exactly what happens whenever California exiles set up camp in a new spot.
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