This is why we can't have nice coffee shops on Grand Ave! Someone put up the bat signal and call the unofficial mayor of Fair Haven

This is a complicated social issue, but nonetheless drinking and drugs should not be welcomed in our neighborhood, on public and private properties. Sometimes it is the same folks that hang around found using our yards as latrines, stealing, and begging. Agreed that thy too are not safe... We need to enforce ordinances that prevent this behavior and find a solution. Isn't there another place in town that can host the homeless? The shelter has been here for 30 years+-. Let's share the burden- with other neighborhoods and other towns and make New Haven a safer place to live for all. Perhaps smaller shelters or better yet help these folks with permanent housing- good models in other town and it costs a lot less to give them each a small apartment and subsidy than to keep them on the streets.

Well folks- seems no progress has been made on this issue in over 2 months (actually years). Is drinking in public while loitering on private property allowed? and how about the resulting toileting issues that take place on our properties? PLEASE- let's try to work something out where we are not being harassed and our properties violated and find these folks a place to hang out while they drink their alcoholic beverages all day long- incidentally this is across the street from the liquor store- is there no culpability?

The repaving of two adjacent parking lots has moved those fold down the street. Nothing has changed not will they until somebody in City Hall decides that Grand Ave is an important conduit into our downtown area and that the status quo is a disgrace.

This is not an issue in the winter, but can we please re-open and discuss in the Spring when the problem arises again.