City Needs to Address Trash Issues in Southeast

Something simply should be able to be done about the horrendous trash situation at the Hardee’s on 9th Street. I stopped in there yesterday and the trash is simply out of control all around their entire building and the perimeters.

Who hasn’t been aware of the high winds we had of late? This trash is ultimately being blown for blocks away in all directions.

We have a code that an individual property owner can be cited for having trash strewn about their property, why can’t this be enforced against a business?

No business should be allowed to be the generator (if that’s a correct use) of truck loads of trash that so damages a neighborhood and its appearance, even more so on this busy intersection. If they were hit with heavy fines, herein the problems with code and the city for not following through and having large enough fines to make a difference.

I noticed the same situation over at the Dollar General Store at Garden City Blvd. Even the trash cans out front were over flowing and blowing all over the place. They can’t or won’t send an employee out to empty them. Businesses simply don’t hire or have the staff to properly maintain a regular clean up of their properties and then you wonder why we don’t want them in our neighborhood.

Were this store on a corner in or near South Roanoke residents would not put up with it. Residents and the city would never allow a business near that zip code that would bring down property values.

Duane Howard

Roanoke

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