Charming town has exploded with growth since we bought, now tons of litter

[Anonymous]

Whose job is it to maintain roadside litter and trash? Was always perfectly clean 10 years ago. Now thanks to explosive growth of retail, plus two large new apartment complexes, it's to the point I'm just disgusted on my commutes to and from work and picking up the kids from school. If I ever see litter in our immediate neighborhood we pick it up religiously but I'm not picking up litter in thoroughfares ruined by all this traffic. Shouldn't all the new retail's tax revenue help with that? I really have no idea. But obviously there are downsides and costs of this growth.

[Anonymous]

The lack of any detail in your post is impressive.

[Anonymous]

You are the growth.

[Anonymous]

Did you move there for the low taxes?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You are the growth.

No. Our house was not a new build.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Whose job is it to maintain roadside litter and trash? Was always perfectly clean 10 years ago. Now thanks to explosive growth of retail, plus two large new apartment complexes, it's to the point I'm just disgusted on my commutes to and from work and picking up the kids from school. If I ever see litter in our immediate neighborhood we pick it up religiously but I'm not picking up litter in thoroughfares ruined by all this traffic. Shouldn't all the new retail's tax revenue help with that? I really have no idea. But obviously there are downsides and costs of this growth.

I am guessing it would be your taxes paying for this. Try to reach out to local transit authority and find out who is not doing their job if it had been done before. Sometimes they outsource to private contracting companies, and they may be collecting your tax dollars and doing nothing.

This happened here in Fairfax county with the snow plows this year. Entire residential areas were neglected, contractors only plowed major streets, school buses had to change routes after several days of school closures. A few phone calls to the VDOT from angry residents in various neighborhoods resolved the problem and plows returned for the next snowfall.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Whose job is it to maintain roadside litter and trash? Was always perfectly clean 10 years ago. Now thanks to explosive growth of retail, plus two large new apartment complexes, it's to the point I'm just disgusted on my commutes to and from work and picking up the kids from school. If I ever see litter in our immediate neighborhood we pick it up religiously but I'm not picking up litter in thoroughfares ruined by all this traffic. Shouldn't all the new retail's tax revenue help with that? I really have no idea. But obviously there are downsides and costs of this growth.

I am guessing it would be your taxes paying for this. Try to reach out to local transit authority and find out who is not doing their job if it had been done before. Sometimes they outsource to private contracting companies, and they may be collecting your tax dollars and doing nothing.

This happened here in Fairfax county with the snow plows this year. Entire residential areas were neglected, contractors only plowed major streets, school buses had to change routes after several days of school closures. A few phone calls to the VDOT from angry residents in various neighborhoods resolved the problem and plows returned for the next snowfall.

Sometimes it can be a jurisdiction of Parks and Recreations local departments or nature preservation or whatever, for example trash in public Parks, playgrounds, etc. I don't know how your area works, but if it's the roads or transit then it's transit authority.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The lack of any detail in your post is impressive.

+1 Let us know which town it is and perhaps we can help you.

[Anonymous]

Where's that do-it-yourself spirit that small-government, low-tax conservatives want? Make it a weekly get-together with your neighbors to clean up trash along those major thoroughfares.

[Anonymous]

OH NO NOT APARTMENT DWELLERS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The lack of any detail in your post is impressive.

+1 Let us know which town it is and perhaps we can help you.

Falls Church City.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OH NO NOT APARTMENT DWELLERS.

Apartments = very high population density of lower income people and exponentially more vehicle traffic cars, thus exponentially more opportunities for litter. Plus apartments have dumpsters, which overfill and blow trash; plus trash haulers spill trash when they're tipping the dumpsters.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Where's that do-it-yourself spirit that small-government, low-tax conservatives want? Make it a weekly get-together with your neighbors to clean up trash along those major thoroughfares.

How is this a partisan issue? And why in the hell would long-time residents have to waste their free time to pick up a mess the town leadership created and profits from? New retailers = more property taxes. New apartments = more property taxes. Use that revenue to pick the s*** up. You can't 2x a town's population and 5x the retail and expect no downsides. Where does all the tax revenue go? It's like congrats bureaucrats...on making the town worse for everyone. Trash and traffic! Yay!

[Anonymous]

Other people moved there for the “charm” and the schools. Just like you did. You probably should have chosen a gated community of some sort.

Back in the day, FCC really was charming, but no more.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The lack of any detail in your post is impressive.

+1 Let us know which town it is and perhaps we can help you.

Falls Church City.

It also depends which road. There are city roads, county roads, state roads, HOA roads...