Description
Lot is overgrown. Lot has been used in the past as a dumping ground for tree trunks, branches, yard debris and wood chips.
Portion of embankment has eroded resulting in dirt and rocks covering a portion of a large utility manhole cover that is in the adjacent sidewalk.
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Mark Melechinsky (Registered User)
I tried that citizen complaint portal this morning and after going through all the trouble to register when I tried to file a complaint about the lot next door I got an "Invalid address" message. So a lot of good that did me. By the way, I got the address from the city.
The way the form is set up it actually DISCOURAGES use.
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The company doing the dumping is....
Top Notch Tree Service, LLC.
860-747-5123 (Bus.)
The lot is listed as 59 Black Rock Avenue. One of the owners is Richard Magnoli. The other is an architect by the name of Dave but I don't have his last name (yet).
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Issue opened 871 days.
Yes, I know. And it will remain open as long as we have property owners, like these two, who do not behave in a responsible manner. If this property were next door to where either owner lives in Southington do you think they would sit quietly by and do or say nothing? Do you think the town of Southington would put up with these conditions and level of irresponsibility? I highly doubt it.
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Someone in the city of New Britain is being bribed.
Within the time period of 9:30 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. this morning, Sunday, January 24th, a department of public works green and yellow, John Deere tractor, with a sand spreader on the back, cleared the sidewalk of the lot next door (again...for free) and dumped a goodly amount of snow mixed with dirt and leaves at the end of our driveway across its full width and in the street as well. THANK YOU DPW! The next time it happens someone (the director) is going to find a five gallon pail of snow dumped on the carpet of his office.
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@Guest: While the city may indeed have a Clean and Lien program I can assure it of two things.
1. The city has NEVER cleaned out the property in question. The one and only time anyone other than myself cleaned the property was well over 20 years ago and it was the state D.O.T. I was told then by the supervisor is charge that it would not happen again because the state did not have the time, manpower or budget to maintain excess state property taken as part of building Route 372.
2. The city removes snow in the winter from the sidewalk and cuts down the weeds growing between the curb and the sidewalk for free. There are NO liens currently against this property by the city or any other federal, state or municipal entity.
You have no cause to be closing my issue since you don't live to nor do you do anything to maintain the property next door to ours so shut up.
THE ISSUE REMAINS OPEN!
Mark Melechinsky (Registered User)
Leave this issue OPEN as it is still ongoing.
I walked down the sidewalk in front of the property this morning and it is choked with weeds, brush and a fallen tree on both sides. Garbage thrown on the hillside is buried in the overgrowth and something stinks (a dead animal?). The lot is now overgrown with locust trees and brush and there are at least two trees from the highway right-of-way that have fallen over onto the chain link fence in the rear of the property. The owners do not maintain the lot. The city cuts the grass along the curb for them at no charge. No one other than myself picks up the garbage that people carelessly discard as they walk by.
I offered to buy the property from one of the two owners a couple of years ago but he wanted full price. I am not going to pay them what they bought the property for from the city given the condition that it is currently in. It will cost a few thousand dollars to clean the property up and put in some plantings.
The city continues to bend over backwards for the owners. Someone must be getting a nice little payoff for ignoring the issue.
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As long as the city continues to ignore the problem the issue will remain open.
Sidewalk still partial blocked by the overgrowth of weeds on the hillside.
Mark Melechinsky (Registered User)
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Blight reported last week and an inspector from the Building Department called me today (9/6/16) to say he was meeting Wednesday (9/7/16) with one of the owners (David W.) to discuss what needs to be done to clean up the lot. I'll believe it when I see it.
The sidewalk is overgrown with weeds, there is trash of all sorts (plastic bottles, cans, styrofoam food containers, fast food bags, plastic bags, a pair of sneakers and yesterday someone dropped off a bag of used clothing...left it right there on the sidewalk in the weeds. Someone (a landscaping company no doubt) dumped a large tree and quite a few branches on the lot as well.
That aside I went to the Town Clerk's office this past Friday and searched the online land records. I discovered the owners haven't paid their property taxes since 2012 and the city has a lien filed for every year since then (2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016). The amounts range from a low of $984 to a high of $1342. Doesn't the city assess a 1% or 1.5% penalty each month the amount remains outstanding? If you owe $1000 and haven't paid it for five years, compounded, that really starts to add up. They probably owe more than the lot is worth at this point. There is at least one lien for $90 dated 3/26/15 that must be for snow removal too.
Why do people who own property in the city but live out of town think this type of behavior is perfectly acceptable?
LEAVE THE ISSUE OPEN!
Mark Melechinsky (Registered User)
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Lot is used as a garbage dump and the city doesn't care. Keep the issue open.
During the one and only snow event we have had thus far the city cleared about 25% of the sidewalk in front of this property and left the rest. Mother nature finished the job but it took her ten full days in which time the owners never once came out to do anything about clearing the sidewalk. Pedestrians had to walk in the street. These guys must be bribing someone at city hall to look the other way. How else would you explain the city's lack of interest?
Mark Melechinsky (Registered User)
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Remember the three inches of snow we got on Tuesday night? Well a small plow owned and operated by a city worker came by and cleared the entire sidewalk from property corner to property corner. Let me ask anyone who reads this one simple question. Did the city of New Britain public works department come out to your property and plow your sidewalk?
That aside, for a few hours each of the past two weekends I have felled small locust trees growing at the top of the hill abutting the sidewalk. These trees overhang the sidewalk in the summer making it difficult to use the sidewalk. In the process I have picked up and discarded the following garbage found on the hillside: candy wrappers, clothing (a pair of pants and some socks), beer bottles, liquor bottles, "nips", cigarette packs, broken glass, rocks, rotten tree limbs, food wrappers, paper plates, plastic water and juice bottles, soda and beer cans, napkins, plastic utensils, paper, envelopes, newspaper circulars, and assorted pieces of plastic, cardboard, bubble wrap and glass. It's like living next to a municipal dump not to mention all the dog$#!+ that people who walk their dogs in front of the property leave behind. The city turns a blind eye to all of this.
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FYI - The actual address for the vacant piece of property is 59 not 61 Black Rock Avenue.
Someone came out last night and cut the weeds between the curb and sidewalk and also a few feet up the hillside. However, they left several piles of clippings/cuttings along the sidewalk, did not sweep up and any trash that people threw into the overgrowth that was found was then thrown into the street. The people that own the property are pigs. There is no other way to describe it. I called Mr. Bianca of the building department to thank him for getting someone to come out and I also mentioned the mess they left behind. One of these days I will pick up what was left behind, drive over to Southington and dump it on one or both of the owner's front lawns. Let's see how they like that.
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