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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I would install motion activated mist blowers filled with hot pepper juice.
Waterhoses on the actors will drive them away. This time of year is most effective.
He should sue the city and take it to the Supreme Court.
What a crappy situation. I’d let those poopy heads at city hall know what I thought about their chitty fines.
Then I’d move the business to a saner location. Apparently Denver (Dungver?) is gone like SanFranshitsco; the shitty by the bay.
It should be legal to clean up the filthy streets again.
[ 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. ]
Liberals: We live in a society, so society should pay to take care of the downtrodden.
Also Liberals: If the downtrodden shit in an ally it is all of sudden YOUR problem, not society’s....
Get a spotted owl and photograph it in the alley.
I would install motion activated mist blowers filled with liquid dog poo
That was my first thought too. Ok, if it is my property and my responsibility then I am going to very strictly control who is allowed on my property. There would *at least* be a locked chain link fence across both ends of the alley. My property, my responsibility, then I don’t want trespassers on it getting hurt that I would then be liable for. Post it no trespassing and back it up.
They tried that at 14th and Broadway in downtown Oakland and the druggies still stuck around.
I doubt the city would allow him to build anything right up to the next property. Too bad, too. It’ll cost him millions to litigate it all the way to the Supreme Court, and they know it. I can’t call them what I’d like to.
Welcome to San Francisco !
Who owns the ally?
The city is attempting to pass legal responsibility onto a private business when if anyone should be the homeless and the local govt.
If the alley is his property build a big wall and keep the sh1tters out.
Then you are apparently senseless.
They will fine him for creating an ice slipping hazard and the homeless will file lawsuits for injury.
This.
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