Allen Park

Requesting to make Allen Park city limits a "Quiet Zone" from 10:30 p.m. until 6:00 a.m. as an official, per ordinance, directive. This would include the following:

1. Police sirens after 10:30 p.m. are muted.
2. Ambulance sirens after 10:30 p.m. are muted.
3. Fire trucks after 10:30 p.m. are muted.
4. Champaign Street train crossing a complete "Quiet Zone". The Federal Railroad Administration has a rule as follows:

The train horn rule requires that locomotive horns be sounded at all public highway grade crossings, except where there is no significant risk to persons, where supplementary safety measures fully compensate for the absence of the warning provided by the horn, or where the sounding of the horn as a warning is not practical.

This "Quiet Zone" rule would work well on Champaign Street because of the following:

1. The Senior Citizen's Housing is 150 feet from the crossing and silence of horns through the night would benefit the residents.
2. Champaign Street has crossing gates that raise and lower and are visible and unobstructed. More quiet but visible safety measures could be incorporated, if needed.
3. The local area is a residential area with younger families who would benefit by not having children awoke through the night by a train horn.
4. There is lower traffic volume between 10:30 p.m. and 6 a.m. on Champaign Street to minimize the need for a loud train horn. After 10:30 p.m. most, if not all, school related activities and events are completed. At 6 a.m. early risers can use the train horn to wake up and midnight shift employees usually get finished working around the 6 a.m. time frame.
5. The train traffic usually moves very slow through Champaign Street crossing because trains are either heading out of the Melvindale Train Yard or are entering the Melvindale Train Yard. Both ways serve to slow train traffic and make the crossing safer.

Please analyze this request and implement this "Quiet Zone" for all Allen Park residents. There is a safety aspect of horn usage, but since Allen Park is not as commercially and residentially busy during the stated "Quiet Zone" time and is located so near the beginning or end of the Melvindale Train Yard, this would be very helpful if implemented.

Property
Unsitely Junlk milk crates etc… piled up along side of garage gutters smashed no shoveled public sidewalks
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Well I have requested a new trash can in February of 2020, because of that rat problem in the neighborhood My can was cracked when the garbage company picked it up one day and slammed it down . Well I called public works twice , Gfl twice , talked to Mayor McLeod over Facebook , and even had a city councilman call for me twice . I find things pulled through the crack cause rats will get in through the massive crack . I just talked to someone who purchased a second can and it was delivered with in two weeks! Why do the people on this stretch of Balfour get neglected by the city. ..

Commercial truck parking on public street parking 24/7. They should be parking behind the store.

Publicly displayed Profanity on a flag in the front yard.

Snow ice not been shoveled on
Public sidewalks

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CITY OF ALLEN PARK FORESTRY DIVISION
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Date Recd 7/27/24
Phone #3/3 777-0568
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DISPOSITION
TREE: )WILL ( )WILL NOT BE REMOVED/TRIMMED
TREE(S) DESCRIPTION:
REASON:
PRIORITY? (Y / N/)
TERMS: Trees that are put on the Removal list are removed based on following order: 1. Priority (high priority/ hazardous trees) 2. Date placed on list 3. TRASH DAY AREA
When removing trees and/or tree stumps, the City will not be responsible for any reparations to the lawn (easement or homeowner property). Stumps will be ground out 6-8" below grade- (City not responsible for feeder roots). Any damage to the sidewalk/driveway/street during the removal process will be repaired by the City. City not responsible for damage occurring to sprinkler systems placed in the easement.
THE REMOVAL PROCESS HAS (4) STAGES (NOTE: Not all work done on the same day):
1. REMOVAL OF TREE DOWN TO STUMP
2. LOG PICK UP (USUALLY DONE WITHIN A WEEK OF REMOVAL)
3. STUMP GRINDING
4. STUMP MULCH REMOVAL
"I have agreed to the above stated terms":
X
Due Chil
Property owner or Designee signature
PLEASE SIGN, LEAVE IN MAILBOX AND CALL DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICES AT 313-928-0550 FOR PICK-UP OR QUESTIONS)
DATE REMOVED/TRIMMED
NOTES:
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Tree is leaning more and more dangerously towards Shenandoah and lifting the public sidewalk, creating uneven pavement and unsafe conditions for children and seniors walking. This is the 4th request from a concerned Allen Park resident, asking for this city tree to be removed!

No plate on this vehicle but yet parked in a public parking lot. Does the city police/ ordinance not cruise the various public parking lots in the city? Clear violation here. Really begs the question of how it got here since it is illegal to drive an unregistered vehicle on public roadways. This is in the lot on Park next to the church.

lawn bags placed in the street every day. These bags almost caused a 2 vehicle crash. the street is a public right of way. please address this issue.

trash and bulk trash visible to public, corner house gas excessive trash and debris always in yard , driveway, and behind driveway, varmit issue, eyesore always, washer dryer aways in driveway, trashy neighbor

This is not the first time this has happened.
I have called City Hall Public Service which no one ever answers.
Ive argued with Advantage! Ive called City Ordinance. Ive called & emailed Bob Graham.
I am 67 and REFUSE to put my health in jeopardy. Ive lived here for 27 yrs. This trash will be strewn all over the street soon. And the city is responsible