http://richmondsfblog.com/2009/10/27/neighbors-meet-with-officials-to-talk-trash/ News, information, photos, videos and history about the Richmond District neighborhood of San Francisco. Sun, 01 Aug 2010 05:16:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://richmondsfblog.com/2009/10/27/neighbors-meet-with-officials-to-talk-trash/comment-page-1/#comment-1329 David Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:59:22 +0000 http://richmondsfblog.com/blog/?p=2799#comment-1329 Genevieve, Your neighbors are a little disconnected and that seems to be part of the issue here in the neighborhood. Yes they are nice people, but nice people, quiet people, loud people, bad people all kinds of people are putting out household trash, dumping trash on corners. I urge you not to watch as is goes on for more months, call 311 and make a report. Some equally nice people will work with the neighbors to help change their habits. There's nothing lovely or neat about what's going on. If they took the time cutting lables and instead disposed of their trash properly the neighborhood would be cleaner and others in the neighborhood could use some of their time to enjoy a cleaner city instead of being the volunteers help cleaning up Genevieve,
Your neighbors are a little disconnected and that seems to be part of the issue here in the neighborhood. Yes they are nice people, but nice people, quiet people, loud people, bad people all kinds of people are putting out household trash, dumping trash on corners. I urge you not to watch as is goes on for more months, call 311 and make a report. Some equally nice people will work with the neighbors to help change their habits. There’s nothing lovely or neat about what’s going on. If they took the time cutting lables and instead disposed of their trash properly the neighborhood would be cleaner and others in the neighborhood could use some of their time to enjoy a cleaner city instead of being the volunteers help cleaning up

]]> http://richmondsfblog.com/2009/10/27/neighbors-meet-with-officials-to-talk-trash/comment-page-1/#comment-1319 genevieve Fri, 30 Oct 2009 01:49:10 +0000 http://richmondsfblog.com/blog/?p=2799#comment-1319 Thank you to Jean Barish and all the members of KONC. Thank you to Supervisor Mar for facilitating this meeting with city officials. The Richmond is the mellow, foggy home for so many lovely people. The sight of mattresses and monitors dumped around our neighborhood is a daily vision. It hurts to know that the people dumping their large-item trash are our same lovely neighbors. I actually know which of my neighbors regularly stack their bulky trash on my corner. Once I found their name and address on a box and brought it back to them. I was very nice when I returned it to them, a few doors up the block. And they were very nice back. And so very apologetic that a mystery person would do something so rude, unbeknownst to them. No bulky trash for weeks following. Now the bulky trash appears every few weeks. The only difference: every address label is neatly cut out with an exacto knife. Our trash problem is a neighbor problem. One suggestion is to require every single-family home to subscribe to garbage pick up. My nice neighbors up the block somehow miss garbage pick up every week because they never ever have bins waiting on the curb in front of their house. At least when they stack their items on my corner they are very quiet and their work is very neat. Lovely in its own way. Thank you to Jean Barish and all the members of KONC. Thank you to Supervisor Mar for facilitating this meeting with city officials. The Richmond is the mellow, foggy home for so many lovely people. The sight of mattresses and monitors dumped around our neighborhood is a daily vision. It hurts to know that the people dumping their large-item trash are our same lovely neighbors. I actually know which of my neighbors regularly stack their bulky trash on my corner. Once I found their name and address on a box and brought it back to them. I was very nice when I returned it to them, a few doors up the block. And they were very nice back. And so very apologetic that a mystery person would do something so rude, unbeknownst to them. No bulky trash for weeks following. Now the bulky trash appears every few weeks. The only difference: every address label is neatly cut out with an exacto knife. Our trash problem is a neighbor problem. One suggestion is to require every single-family home to subscribe to garbage pick up. My nice neighbors up the block somehow miss garbage pick up every week because they never ever have bins waiting on the curb in front of their house. At least when they stack their items on my corner they are very quiet and their work is very neat. Lovely in its own way.

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