Whoa, I misread the complaint. It's not that sad lot, it's the sidewalks that the merchants never take care of. A few folks on the merchant's associaton sometimes clean up the sidewalk areas, but most of the merchant's could careless. Their conduct is shameful, but I doubt it is correctable. One solution would be to pull out all the plantings, put in concrete joy the new look akin to Southside Plaza and other
blighted business areas.

The young Crepe Myrtle trees in the area are very nice looking and the city should take the responsibility to upkeep them. The suckers off the bottom of the trees need to be pruned. They need watering and bags removed and measures taken from keeping their trunks from being chopped by weed eaters. Please get a new company to maintain and water our city trees. The one thing keeping an area from looking blight ridden is it trees and ongoing maintenance.

Thank you for contacting the City of Richmond, Division of Property Maintenance Code Enforcement. We are sorry but in order for the department to proceed on this complaint; we will need your help in determining the correct location of the property in question. Please call our office at (804) 646-6398 so that we may assist you in this matter.

Just go to the 5000 block of Forest Hill Avenue. Look at the trees on City property. Look down. See the tree wells? Suckers need to be removed,mulch cleaned. This is not worthy of a phone call to you, just look at the darned trees for gosh sake.

Amen K.

Area in front of Taza, The Forest, Carpet Cuts, etc.
5013 Forest Hill Avenue is the middle address, but it spans the 5000 block from CVS to 48 hours.

I went by yesterday and it looks like someone has trimmed the suckers off the crape myrtles and trimmed up the grass near Taza. Maybe a follow up to make sure. I didnt get a chance to stop to see in front of cvs.

Thank you for contacting the city of Richmond, We are assigning an Inspector to revierw the situation we discussed, however since this form did not have an actual address we must close this form and proceed in our Code Enforcement forum. Please call (804)646-6398.

they must have been trimmed in the last week. Unsure about the other side of the road.

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According to a previous comment, this issue has been abated. Thank you.

does the city take care of the tree wells or are the business owners taking responsibility on their own? it looks like on one side of the street on the block from cvs to the 48 hours mart there are some tree wells that have grass trimmed while other tree wells with the crape myrtles have grass that is not trimmed. On the opposite side of the street along the front of the middle school there are tree wells not cut back. The crape myrtles have been trimmed up too high which many tree people refer to as crape murder.

WHY CLOSE THIS CASE FOR THE REASON STATED?????
Why do you not understand that there is not just one specific address that has disgusting unkempt areas? The entire merchant area of Westover Hills is stupid bad looking...looks almost blighted, like a lot of inner cities in the 1970's. Please just get someone over there to look around.
If you want, I'll call every day with a different address and wind up giving you most all of the merchant addresses in the process. Except for the Westover Place strip. That area, where Act 1 Hair Design is, most always could be a model for the other places.
Thank you, Il lokk back here for a thoughtful response.

If the grass is connected to a private property then you may call and give the specific address for the issue. If it is not, then this is an issue that is handled by the Department of Public Works and they can be reached at 804-646-0999. Closing the issue due to a departmental transfer does not mean that it is not being worked, it means that it is not an issue specific to the Code Enforcement department therefore, it can be closed on our end. Please rest assured that we are more than willing to cooperate with you in the abatement of this matter but there is a certain protocol that must be followed. Please give us a call at 804-646-6398 if you would like further assistance in the resolve of this matter. We look forward to hearing from you. Thank you.

Thank you. I appreciate the quick reply.
I still do not understand who is supposed to be doing what. Here's an example, as a homeowner I know I am responsible for maintaining the area between the sidewalk and the streetside curb, even though I do not own that patch of land. Now, for business owners, who takes care of that same type of land the City or the property owner. Case in point, the crape myrtles planted in the Westover Hills area (5000 block for example) oftn need care to their tree wells. Whose responsibility is that?

Still waiting...thank you.

You are correct in your assessment that property owners are required to maintain the area. But in order for us to assign an Inspector to the location we need the physical address. Please prvide us with this informaiton so we may act on the complaint.

Looks like the commercial vacant lots listed as 4910, 4920, and 4930 Forest Hill Avenue. These are the lots just west of the Davita Dialysis Center. They are across the street from the Forest Restaurant and The Locker Room which I show in the 5000 block. As I recall, Ms. Graziano, council rep, helped broker a deal where the City would cut the owner's grass. I cannot recall the reason(s), but evidently the sidewalk areas were probably not directly included in the deal. I bet someone could easily solve this by getting the people responsible for the lot to also be responsible for the sidewalk area, just like all the other properties in the City. Ms. Graziano can be reached at 804.320-2454 or through your email. She has been a great help with many merchant concerns in that area and can once again bring the wisdom of King Solomon to the able. Thanks again.

addresses/location cited in last post. This is getting frustrating, the area looks terrible, a true and needless eyesore. I can't get you better directions, just please read the above.

HELP! I have not gotten a response in some time now. Really frustrating.
That area is really looking down and out. The blights is slowly creeping in.
Please get some oneover that and fix this for goodness sake.

Hey, is anyone working there this week?
I'm still waiting for a reply to my last THREE posts?

Thank you.

4910 forest hill ave., 23225

The Property Maintenance Code Enforcement Inspector has indicated in the case file, that the reported issue(s) has/have been corrected to meet code regulations. Thank you for your patience in this matter.

The Property Maintenance Code Enforcement Inspector has indicated in the case file, that the reported issue(s) has/have been corrected to meet code regulations. Thank you for your patience in this matter.

OK, thanks for tending to this.
Now, the question is who will continue to fix this mess? Did anyone bother to contact Ms. Graziano's office for her help and/or speak with Public Works. Please scroll up and you will understand why this is a recurring problem.

I will look here for your hopefully quick and informed response.

Thank you.

The issue reported has been abated. Please contact our office at 804-646-6398 for further assistance with your ongoing concerns. See Click Fix does not have a message board component. Thank you.

Good grief! This is very frustrating. Thanks for not very much on this, but I am glad this immediate concern has been apparently corrected.