Wednesday, May 17, 2000
Street targeted for cleanup
By Jane Prendergast
The Cincinnati Enquirer
Officer Dawn Keating checks the house at 4429 Eastern Ave. The property was condemned.
(Glenn Hartong photo)
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The house with the saggy porch roof and spongy floor had to be condemned. The broken-down Datsun in a front yard: Move it or lose it.
A team of police officers, building and litter inspectors and a dog warden attacked violations such as these for three hours Tuesday morning along Eastern Avenue.
They targeted the street in the East End and Columbia Tusculum neighborhoods in the latest cleanup effort by a Cincinnati Neighborhood Action Strategy team.
With their citations, they left another message: They'll be back.
“This is not a one-time thing,” said Police Spc. Dawn Keating, an East End neighborhood officer. “It's a continuing process.”
Strategy teams fan out in targeted areas all over the city, focusing all at once the attention of city departments from police and fire to building inspectors and Hamilton County dog war dens.
Last summer, sweeps of the lower part of Eastern Avenue ended with more than 125 abandoned and junk cars towed.
Tuesday, one woman scrambled to organize her overflowing garbage cans when she saw the police officers and inspectors approaching. Another, cited for having appliances on her porch and dozens of cans and bottles in her yard, immediately began raking up the pile.
Karen O'Sullivan, litter control officer with the health department, issued citations for 18 violations on fewer than 10 properties. She found used tires in one front yard, trash cans without lids and a vacant lot covered by trash.
A building inspector tallied 36 violations. He also condemned one house in the 4400 block of Eastern, the one with the broken-down Datsun parked in the front yard.
Ms. O'Sullivan stressed, though, that the officials' goal is not to penalize.
“We just want compliance,” she said. “That's all.”
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