The grass parking area to which you are referring, is it directly south of Parking Lot #16, on the south side of the U-Haul building? There's a lot between Dr MLKing St and 10th St and between 2nd Ave and 3rd Ave S - just wondering if this is the location you're reporting. Thanks

Hello,

Thank you for your quick response! No, the big grass lot is directly beside the paved lot. So the big grass lot is between 960 Central Ave and the shops on MLK (Subway, Anytime Fitness, Peaceful Warrior Massage, and Leann's Nails). It is right in between Central Ave and 1st Ave South. I hope that helps. Thank you!

Good morning, 1010 - thanks for the follow-up clarification of the parking lots. Since your initial report, we've reached out to some different groups - the City's Planning and Economic Development department helped identify which of the downtown lots are City owned and which are privately owned/managed - the ones you mentioned were private, so our Zoning staff are going to reach out to the owners with reminders of their responsibility to keep those lots picked-up. Also, our Codes staff has reiterated that they will monitor that area for trash accumulation and if need be, send warnings to those responsible for maintaining the property. Hopefully we can all work together to keep these areas cleaned up and as trash free as possible all the time, not just after home gams. Thanks again for your report - please post updates or new reports anytime. Go Rays! David, M.A.C.

You have been so thorough! Thanks for handling that so promptly and professionally!

Good morning - I received word from our Zoning folks that they made contact with the company that manages the lots in question, and that company did initiate a clean up of those lots base on some photos that we submitted to them during an inspection (based on your initial report.) Hopefully that company will be more diligent about keeping the lots clean - we had home games over the weekend and more this week and next weekend, so feel free to report back here if you notice excessive trash in/around those lots. Thanks again for your help! David

You definitely exceeded my expectations! Great follow through and really cool you actually went to the lots to take pictures! Thank You so much!!