Jacksonville Is Our City, Don’t Trash It cropped-Arwood-Logo.png What is Blight? Blight – (noun) an ugly, neglected, or rundown condition of an urban area. Neighborhood blight refers to the deterioration and decay of neighborhoods in many cities across the country due to neglect, crime or lack of economic support. This can also be referred to as urban decay. As homes or properties fall further into disrepair, they can negatively affect other properties around them. Blight conditions can lower surrounding property values, create havens for crime and illegal activity, and can threaten the public health and safety of a community. Blight is a drag on community energy, a siphon on city vitality, and a strong deterrent to economic investment. It can be a source of despair or cynicism for people who have witnessed the decline of a particular building or neighborhood over time. Eliminating Jacksonville’s blight will dramatically improve the next chapter of the city’s future. Help Fight Blight! The Fight Blight initiative is working hard to combat and clean-up local businesses with the help of engaged citizens. Blight threatens public safety, lowers property values and degrades quality of life. Jacksonville neighborhoods can become safer, cleaner and more beautiful places for all of us to live if we work together—as One City, One Jacksonville—to fight blight. Use the tools and resources on this page to learn more about Examples of Blight in our city, and How You Can Help in the fight against blight. 630-CITY More Resources Get involved in your community! Citizen Planning Advisory Committees (CPACs) Sheriff’s Advisory Councils (ShAdCos) List of Neighborhood Organizations Contact the City of Jacksonville’s Fight Blight Director, E. Denise Lee, EDeniseL@coj.net, 630-1874. MyJax mobile app MyJax mobile appWhile communities, public leaders and law enforcement across the nation are each taking unique approaches to address the issue of blight in their cities, one common solution incorporates the interest and regular input of active and engaged citizens. With the MyJax mobile app, you can report abandoned houses, overgrown lots and illegal dumping to the City and local authorities as soon as you see it, via your Smartphone, Android or iOS mobile device. Click here to download the app and stay informed! *The MyJax App is free and compatible with iOS and Android devices.

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Waste Management buys Benz A spokesperson for Waste Management Inc. has confirmed the company will be buying all assets of Benz Sanitation. “We expect the deal will close by Aug. 1,” said Southern California Communication Manager Eloisa Orozco, via telephone. Zoom Posted May. 24, 2016 at 12:01 AM STAFF REPORTS A spokesperson for Waste Management Inc. has confirmed the company will be buying all assets of Benz Sanitation. “We expect the deal will close by Aug. 1,” said Southern California Communication Manager Eloisa Orozco, via telephone. Tehachapi-based Benz currently provides waste collection service in the unincorporated areas of Ridgecrest and surrounding areas. They had previously provided service within the city limits, but lost the contract amid legal issues. “We believe this will be a great opportunity and we hope to provide a seamless transition,” said Orozco. “The acquisition involves 100 percent of the company’s assets, including all their services.” Houston-based Waste Management currently only operates in Ridgecrest and California City in Kern County. The Bakersfield Californian reported Benz told local authorities last week it plans to lay off 132 employees spread across eight locations in Tehachapi, Ridgecrest and Rosamond as of Aug. 1. Orozco told the Californian that the company plans to retain “a majority if not all of the employees” let go by Benz. She added Benz’s owners plan to retire.

New Astoria Home By Liz Goff Officials at the Queens West One (QW1) Sanitation garage are searching for a new home for supervisors, workers and their fleet of collection trucks. Department of Sanitation (DOS) officials said the garage at 34-28 21st Street has housed QW1 for more than eight decades. The building is in such poor condition that it is close to being condemned, a DOS spokesperson said The garage opened in 1931 and currently serves as a workplace for approximately 150 DOS employees and as a “working storage”: facility for more than 60 pieces of equipment, the spokesperson said. That number includes collection trucks, sidewalk sweepers, snow removal equipment, front loaders and other equipment used by Sanitation workers. This building was not designed to accommodate the number of collection trucks that go in and out every day, the DOS supervisor said. For years, neighbors never complained about the trucks, but complaints have risen in the last few years, a WQ1 supervisor said/ “When your neighbors start to complain, you know it’s time to go,” he said. Here’s a puzzle for Gazette history buffs: a Google search of the Empire State Building, circa 1934, shows the Queensborough Bridge, Long Island City and a white, rectangular building on the side of the bridge. Zoom into that building for a view of the QW1 garage in its infancy, surrounded by a vast, open space. “It’s like we’ve always been here,” a QW1 worker said. “The photo shows that the Department of Sanitation was here before just about anything else.” DOS spokesperson Ignazio Terranova confirmed that the agency is actively searching throughout Astoria for a new home for QW1. One of the sites under consideration is located on 20th Avenue and 31st Street, Terranova said. “We are looking at that location and several others in the immediate area, but at this time nothing is set in stone, Terranova said.” The agency has no control over plans for redevelopment of the 21st Street parcel, Terranova said. “We have no control over what will become of that property once we’re gone,” he said. City Councilmember Costa Costantinides said he is working with DOS to find a suitable location for QW1. The Astoria lawmaker sad he is not convinced that the 20th Avenue site is the best choice for the new sanitation garage. “We will have the ability to shape any plan proposed by DOS,” Constantinides said. “If we don’t like what we see, we will be able to vote it down.” Terranova said the move would not give DOS an opportunity to bring more trucks into the Astoria area. “QW1 will have the same equipment, regardless of where the garage relocates,” he said.

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