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Ann Arbor officials announce crackdown on graffiti to combat growing nuisance (Businesses on hook)
annarbor.com ^ | 10-24-2011 | Ryan Stanton

Posted on 10/24/2011 6:28:35 PM PDT by Darren McCarty

An increase in the amount of graffiti in downtown Ann Arbor and other parts of the city has city officials responding to what they consider a growing nuisance.

In recent months, city officials say, there has been a clear increase in the amount of graffiti, which they argue detracts from the aesthetic appeal of the community, can decrease property values and has a negative impact on sense of safety and security.

This graffiti has been on a building on the 300 block of East Liberty Street in downtown Ann Arbor for several weeks and has not been removed yet. It's unknown whether anyone has filed a complaint about it.

"It was noticed by council, it was noticed by the mayor, it was noticed by our police department, and we're responding and trying to take care of it early on so it doesn't spread," City Administrator Steve Powers told AnnArbor.com in an interview today. "This is certainly an item of emphasis for our community standards right now."

Beginning Nov. 1, city officials said the city's community standards officers are going to dedicate increased staff time to graffiti enforcement, meaning property owners may receive notices ordering graffiti removal.

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Under the ordinance, property owners are required to remove graffiti within seven calendar days after notice from the city. If the owner does not remove the graffiti, then the city may remove the graffiti and bill the property owner for the work.

(Excerpt) Read more at annarbor.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Michigan
KEYWORDS: annarbor; graffiti
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As a business owner, this makes me sick. I won't be moving my business to city limits.

A group of punks spread their "art" on the walls of my business. Instead of going after the punks who do this, they go after business owners and make them pay for the removal?

That's BS. That's the City of Ann Arbor for you.

1 posted on 10/24/2011 6:28:43 PM PDT by Darren McCarty
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To: Darren McCarty

Wait.. there is still business in MI???

What are you waiting for? Escape man!


2 posted on 10/24/2011 6:31:47 PM PDT by cableguymn
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To: Darren McCarty

Moscow on the Huron.


3 posted on 10/24/2011 6:32:20 PM PDT by cripplecreek (A vote for Amnesty is a vote for a permanent Democrat majority. ..Choose well.)
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To: Darren McCarty
As a business owner, this makes me sick. I won't be moving my business to city limits. A group of punks spread their "art" on the walls of my business. Instead of going after the punks who do this, they go after business owners and make them pay for the removal? That's BS. That's the City of Ann Arbor for you.

No kidding....my sentiments exactly. It's the fault of the business?? You're going to fine the business??? It's NOT graffiti...it's VANDALISM.

4 posted on 10/24/2011 6:35:27 PM PDT by DouglasKC
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To: Darren McCarty

I hate taggers. I hate them with a passion. I’d like to see them get the Singapore treatment.


5 posted on 10/24/2011 6:36:25 PM PDT by A_perfect_lady (Islam is as Islam does.)
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To: cableguymn

This ain’t California, we’re actually trying to fix things here. We’ve come amazingly far in less than a year.


6 posted on 10/24/2011 6:36:52 PM PDT by cripplecreek (A vote for Amnesty is a vote for a permanent Democrat majority. ..Choose well.)
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To: Darren McCarty
When I'm finally king, I'm going to authorize the cops to hit the little vagrants right in the ass with .22 rat-shot if they catch them tagging something with a can of Krylon. Maybe some of them will re-think a career in urban arts once they have to sit side-saddle for a week.

"But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: for men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away, for his name is Obama."

7 posted on 10/24/2011 6:37:12 PM PDT by Viking2002 (Hippies smell.)
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To: cripplecreek
Moscow is right.

I've just about had enough of this entire county. If this creeps into Northfield Township, I'm going to leave the county and move to Brighton.

8 posted on 10/24/2011 6:41:55 PM PDT by Darren McCarty (Perry and Cain I can support, but no Romney)
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To: A_perfect_lady

“I’d like to see them get the Singapore treatment.”

Thank you. That is much more kind than getting shot on sight, which should happen more often than it does.


9 posted on 10/24/2011 6:42:59 PM PDT by USMCPOP (Father of LCpl. Karl Linn, KIA 1/26/2005 Al Haqlaniyah, Iraq)
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To: Darren McCarty

I’m just outside of Washtenaw county and ended up here in because its so much cheaper to live in Jackson county and work for the better pay in Washtenaw.


10 posted on 10/24/2011 6:44:46 PM PDT by cripplecreek (A vote for Amnesty is a vote for a permanent Democrat majority. ..Choose well.)
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To: Darren McCarty

The City of Phoenix Graffiti Program:

PROPERTY OWNER: The city of Phoenix has a program designed to remove graffiti from various surfaces. By signing this petition, you will be granting permission to the City of Phoenix Paint Team to remove graffiti from your property. This service is FREE to you, but you must own the property or have legal authority to grant permission. This permission is valid until revoked in writing. (snip)

http://phoenix.gov/webcms/groups/internet/@inter/@dept/@nsd/documents/web_content/nsd_gb_permission.pdf


11 posted on 10/24/2011 6:45:52 PM PDT by donna (Americans now owe more on student loans than on credit cards.)
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Beginning Nov. 1, city officials said the city's community standards officers are going to dedicate increased staff time to graffiti enforcement, meaning property owners may receive notices ordering graffiti removal.

It'd be just a damned shame if the mayor and city officials homes got badly graffitied by chance.

12 posted on 10/24/2011 6:48:27 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (Join the Democrats, it's not Fascism when WE do it. (plagiarized))
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To: Darren McCarty

It does not sound like this is a new ordinance, or even an unusual one. What may be new is police attention to it. While I wouldn’t advocate an exactly Singaporean approach to the issue, I’d say anyone caught tagging must be required to clean up ten or twenty times as much including the original tagging. If they run out of buildings to clean, then start cleaning train cars.


13 posted on 10/24/2011 6:48:45 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (There's gonna be a Redneck Revolution! (See my freep page) [rednecks come in many colors])
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To: Darren McCarty

Ann Arbor is a great town. There’s no benefit in milking tagger bums for cash. They won’t offer any kind of payment short of what the taxpayer has already handed out.

Ann Arbor businesses, like any town that suffers from random paint vandalism, need a creative solution that 1.) renders tagging ineffective, 2.) shames the taggers publicly, 3.) meets with community standards in terms of punishment rendered.

In Ann Arbor’s case that means all buildings are pre-graffitied, and public stocks are installed so residents can tickle guilty feet.


14 posted on 10/24/2011 6:53:41 PM PDT by Fester Chugabrew (minds change)
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. . . shot on sight . .

. . . by a citizenry armed with paintball guns and deputized by local authorities. Make the paintball color "distinked."

15 posted on 10/24/2011 7:03:01 PM PDT by Fester Chugabrew (minds change)
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To: Darren McCarty

If I’m not mistaken, Ann Arbor is a big college town. Better solution would be to pass an ordinance requiring the college and college professors to clean up all graffiti.


16 posted on 10/24/2011 7:07:17 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (There's a pill for just about everything ... except stupid!)
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To: RetiredTexasVet

Yeah, Ann Arbor is Berkley east. Given the choice of vaporizing Ann Arbor or Detroit, I’d let Detroit live.

Detroit is an indifferent parasite but Ann Arbor is an angry, self righteous, and demanding parasite.


17 posted on 10/24/2011 7:19:54 PM PDT by cripplecreek (A vote for Amnesty is a vote for a permanent Democrat majority. ..Choose well.)
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To: Darren McCarty
People look at me funny when I mention taggers should be able to be shot on sight, when caught in the act.

I think it would certainly cut down on crime as a whole, as taggers generally tend to be gang-bangers, or wannabe bangers. Drop a few mid-tag, charge the family for clean up, and the situation would go away on its own.

18 posted on 10/24/2011 7:27:44 PM PDT by IYAS9YAS (Rose, there's a Messerschmitt in the kitchen. Clean it up, will ya?)
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19 posted on 10/24/2011 7:33:05 PM PDT by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: Darren McCarty
Graffiti is the price you pay for cultural diversity. Ann Arbor should delight in this wonderful contribution to diversity and multiculturalism. Think how bland it would be to live in a city like say Vienna, Praque,or even Vancouver,B.C. when you could have a city that looks more like Tijuana. Why would anyone what the bland look of Praque when you can have all the excitement of a multicultural city? Ann Arbor should revel in the diversity that they have longed for an advocated for so long.

You reap what you so.
20 posted on 10/24/2011 8:00:33 PM PDT by truthguy (Good intentions are not enough.)
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