From john.meyer at live.com Tue Oct 6 15:42:03 2020 From: john.meyer at live.com (John Meyer) Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2020 22:42:03 +0000 Subject: [OldNorth] City asks for assistance in pruning in alleys to allow for maintenance Message-ID: Old North Board and Interested Parties, Following our last meeting where alley maintenance was discussed, I met with the Public Works Senior Supervisor who oversees road maintenance. The city intends to undertake some modest alley maintence with grading and pothole filling in early to mid-November. What makes this difficult and may prevent success is the overgrowth of landscaping and other materials that significantly encroach into the alley right-of-way and impede the access of heavy equipment to do this work. This issue seems to be present in the alleys bordered by C-D Streets as well as D-E and E-F. There seems to be adequate clearance for alleys between B-C Streets and F-G Streets. The city has had great pushback when they removed landscaping in the past so is asking property owners if they would prune material back if it is significantly entering the right-of-way. This may also be beneficial for residents who access the alleys. The city can refer such matters to code enforcement personnel, but would like to avoid such draconian action and proceed with a more cooperative approach. Let me know if I can provide more information or clarification. John Meyer Old North Davis Neighborhood Association President -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From valerie at vanngroup.com Tue Oct 6 17:29:26 2020 From: valerie at vanngroup.com (Valerie Vann) Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2020 17:29:26 -0700 Subject: [OldNorth] City asks for assistance in pruning in alleys to allow for maintenance In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: The reason there is OK clearance for the most part on the F-G alleys is that 2 years ago the City Code Enforcement mailed all of us threatening citations if we did not cut back all vegetation encroaching on the alley. This at a time when most tree services were fully booked with PG&E and/or orchards and/or wildfire clean-up activities, plus others trying to comply with the notices at the same time. I received a 2nd notice before I was finally able to engage a service (which cost me big bucks). Some the current encroachments are not "green", but for example parked cars (including a car missing a wheel up on a jack for over a year); trash cans outside the fences, etc.) It would help if the City could assist in some kind of cooperative action, instead of hitting us individually, so that we are competing for help, or coping with other problems. Valerie Vann =================== > Old North Board and Interested Parties, > > Following our last meeting where alley maintenance was discussed, I met > with the Public Works Senior Supervisor who oversees road maintenance. > The city intends to undertake some modest alley maintence with grading and > pothole filling in early to mid-November. What makes this difficult and > may prevent success is the overgrowth of landscaping and other materials > that significantly encroach into the alley right-of-way and impede the > access of heavy equipment to do this work. > > This issue seems to be present in the alleys bordered by C-D Streets as > well as D-E and E-F. There seems to be adequate clearance for alleys > between B-C Streets and F-G Streets. The city has had great pushback when > they removed landscaping in the past so is asking property owners if they > would prune material back if it is significantly entering the > right-of-way. This may also be beneficial for residents who access the > alleys. > > The city can refer such matters to code enforcement personnel, but would > like to avoid such draconian action and proceed with a more cooperative > approach. > > Let me know if I can provide more information or clarification. > > John Meyer > Old North Davis Neighborhood Association President > > _______________________________________________ > oldnorth mailing list > oldnorth at mailman.dcn.org > http://mailman.dcn.org/mailman/listinfo/oldnorth > From john.meyer at live.com Tue Oct 6 17:35:30 2020 From: john.meyer at live.com (John Meyer) Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2020 00:35:30 +0000 Subject: [OldNorth] City asks for assistance in pruning in alleys to allow for maintenance In-Reply-To: References: , Message-ID: Valerie, My understanding is the city will pursue code enforcement for the abandoned cars and other material that is clearly junk. This request was for landscaping with the hope that folks can address it without code enforcement. If there are items at your address, let me know and we can try to muster some volunteers to help. -jm From: Valerie Vann Sent: Tuesday, October 6, 2020 5:29 PM To: oldnorth at mailman.dcn.org Subject: Re: [OldNorth] City asks for assistance in pruning in alleys to allow for maintenance The reason there is OK clearance for the most part on the F-G alleys is that 2 years ago the City Code Enforcement mailed all of us threatening citations if we did not cut back all vegetation encroaching on the alley. This at a time when most tree services were fully booked with PG&E and/or orchards and/or wildfire clean-up activities, plus others trying to comply with the notices at the same time. I received a 2nd notice before I was finally able to engage a service (which cost me big bucks). Some the current encroachments are not "green", but for example parked cars (including a car missing a wheel up on a jack for over a year); trash cans outside the fences, etc.) It would help if the City could assist in some kind of cooperative action, instead of hitting us individually, so that we are competing for help, or coping with other problems. Valerie Vann =================== > Old North Board and Interested Parties, > > Following our last meeting where alley maintenance was discussed, I met > with the Public Works Senior Supervisor who oversees road maintenance. > The city intends to undertake some modest alley maintence with grading and > pothole filling in early to mid-November. What makes this difficult and > may prevent success is the overgrowth of landscaping and other materials > that significantly encroach into the alley right-of-way and impede the > access of heavy equipment to do this work. > > This issue seems to be present in the alleys bordered by C-D Streets as > well as D-E and E-F. There seems to be adequate clearance for alleys > between B-C Streets and F-G Streets. The city has had great pushback when > they removed landscaping in the past so is asking property owners if they > would prune material back if it is significantly entering the > right-of-way. This may also be beneficial for residents who access the > alleys. > > The city can refer such matters to code enforcement personnel, but would > like to avoid such draconian action and proceed with a more cooperative > approach. > > Let me know if I can provide more information or clarification. > > John Meyer > Old North Davis Neighborhood Association President > > _______________________________________________ > oldnorth mailing list > oldnorth at mailman.dcn.org > http://mailman.dcn.org/mailman/listinfo/oldnorth > _______________________________________________ oldnorth mailing list oldnorth at mailman.dcn.org http://mailman.dcn.org/mailman/listinfo/oldnorth -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From tracysteve642 at gmail.com Tue Oct 6 18:39:25 2020 From: tracysteve642 at gmail.com (Steve Tracy) Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2020 18:39:25 -0700 Subject: [OldNorth] City asks for assistance in pruning in alleys to allow for maintenance In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <09ACF542-7F12-4947-BB28-E851CE5655DD@gmail.com> Sorry to complain, but this is a completely unacceptable approach. Having one neighbor attacking another neighbor?s illegal landscaping is a recipe for shouting matches and fistfights. I no longer own a chainsaw, since my last one was borrowed so often and was so abused it became dangerously fragile and I tossed it. If residents jackhammered the asphalt driveways leading into the City Hall parking lot or began uprooting City Hall landscaping there would be an uproar for sure. Steve. Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 6, 2020, at 3:42 PM, John Meyer wrote: > > ? > Old North Board and Interested Parties, > > Following our last meeting where alley maintenance was discussed, I met with the Public Works Senior Supervisor who oversees road maintenance. The city intends to undertake some modest alley maintence with grading and pothole filling in early to mid-November. What makes this difficult and may prevent success is the overgrowth of landscaping and other materials that significantly encroach into the alley right-of-way and impede the access of heavy equipment to do this work. > > This issue seems to be present in the alleys bordered by C-D Streets as well as D-E and E-F. There seems to be adequate clearance for alleys between B-C Streets and F-G Streets. The city has had great pushback when they removed landscaping in the past so is asking property owners if they would prune material back if it is significantly entering the right-of-way. This may also be beneficial for residents who access the alleys. > > The city can refer such matters to code enforcement personnel, but would like to avoid such draconian action and proceed with a more cooperative approach. > > Let me know if I can provide more information or clarification. > > John Meyer > Old North Davis Neighborhood Association President > > _______________________________________________ > oldnorth mailing list > oldnorth at mailman.dcn.org > http://mailman.dcn.org/mailman/listinfo/oldnorth -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: