City to start cracking down with new garbage ordinance
NORWICH – Jason Lawrence has been working as the City of Norwich code enforcement officer since September of last year. During his time he has done a lot to clean up the city, but now that the new garbage ordinance has gone into effect, Lawrence is going to have a lot more work to do.
“The city is in rough shape,” Lawrence said. “We just want to make it a cleaner, safer place to live.”
That was the idea behind the revised garbage ordinance, which focuses mostly on multi-family dwellings. The city is currently working to create a registry with the names and phone numbers of the buildings’ landlords, many of whom are out of the area. According to Lawrence, this makes things much more difficult. Many of the out-of-area landlords are nearly impossible to contact, and do not seem to care about the garbage issue in the city, he said.
“We have talked and met with 12 or 13 landlords so far,” the code enforcement officer said. “They understand the problem, but they just blame their tenants.” Blame will not help in this situation, because beginning on Friday, fines will be given for violations of the garbage ordinance, and both the landlord and the tenants will feel the strain on their wallets. There is a minimum $25 fine for the first offense, and $50 for each subsequent offense.
The ordinance gives specific details about the size of trash containers that each landlord must provide to their tenants. It also states that garbage must be stored in an area screened from view of the street, and that trash cans should be placed out no more than 12 hours before it is scheduled to be picked up.
“The days of junkyards on the streets are gone,” Lawrence said. Some of the big offenses are accumulations of trash and rubbish, car parts and tires on the lawns, indoor furniture placed in outside areas, and garbage stored in a way that will attract animals. Lawrence said that all garbage cans need proper lids; otherwise, they serve as breeding grounds for mosquitos.
“Sixty percent of the public will not be affected by this ordinance,” Lawrence said. “This is not the first offense for many of these people, and they’ve been given several chances.”
This week, the code enforcement officer toured four apartment houses, each of which had to be sprayed for cockroaches. The number of roaches has drastically increased this year, and instead of spreading from one apartment to another, the roaches are spreading from building to building.
According to Lawrence, the chronic violators are seen in the multi-family dwellings, and the city will be cracking down. “We’re not asking a lot. These are common, quality of life things,” he said.
“The city is in rough shape,” Lawrence said. “We just want to make it a cleaner, safer place to live.”
That was the idea behind the revised garbage ordinance, which focuses mostly on multi-family dwellings. The city is currently working to create a registry with the names and phone numbers of the buildings’ landlords, many of whom are out of the area. According to Lawrence, this makes things much more difficult. Many of the out-of-area landlords are nearly impossible to contact, and do not seem to care about the garbage issue in the city, he said.
“We have talked and met with 12 or 13 landlords so far,” the code enforcement officer said. “They understand the problem, but they just blame their tenants.” Blame will not help in this situation, because beginning on Friday, fines will be given for violations of the garbage ordinance, and both the landlord and the tenants will feel the strain on their wallets. There is a minimum $25 fine for the first offense, and $50 for each subsequent offense.
The ordinance gives specific details about the size of trash containers that each landlord must provide to their tenants. It also states that garbage must be stored in an area screened from view of the street, and that trash cans should be placed out no more than 12 hours before it is scheduled to be picked up.
“The days of junkyards on the streets are gone,” Lawrence said. Some of the big offenses are accumulations of trash and rubbish, car parts and tires on the lawns, indoor furniture placed in outside areas, and garbage stored in a way that will attract animals. Lawrence said that all garbage cans need proper lids; otherwise, they serve as breeding grounds for mosquitos.
“Sixty percent of the public will not be affected by this ordinance,” Lawrence said. “This is not the first offense for many of these people, and they’ve been given several chances.”
This week, the code enforcement officer toured four apartment houses, each of which had to be sprayed for cockroaches. The number of roaches has drastically increased this year, and instead of spreading from one apartment to another, the roaches are spreading from building to building.
According to Lawrence, the chronic violators are seen in the multi-family dwellings, and the city will be cracking down. “We’re not asking a lot. These are common, quality of life things,” he said.
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