Quality of Life and Public Safety Updates

IN ACTION IN THE AVENUES

Friday morning, the LAPD was out in force to ticket vehicles refusing to stop at the 4th Avenue crosswalk. Tickets where pretty much handed out continuously.  Thanks to Council Member Wesson and his crew at Council District 10 for recognizing the scope of safety problems at this intersection, which is used largely by school children throughout the day. Council Member Wesson also assisted in securing DOT approval for a traffic light at this intersection. The new traffic light was requested by concerned neighbors and Pacific Charter who will be paying for the light.

UPDATES FROM OUR SENIOR LEAD OFFICER, TRACY HAUTER

Vehicle problems on 4th Avenue have included a mobile home and an extremely graffiti covered U-Haul. The mobile home belongs to a gentleman who is leaving the neighborhood by the end of the week and has not been living in the mobile home itself. The owner of the U-Haul was located and Officer Hauter will be speaking with them about solutions for removing the eyesore.

Fredrick Douglas is having issues with illegal food vendors serving the kids as they come out of school. Officer Hauter had scheduled a task force with the Health Department to go after the vendors, but the Health Department had to cancel. A new date will be set up for a future task force, but Officer Hauter will continue to ticket and monitor the situation until then.

Another Fredrick Douglas issue has been the much larger and older kids "taking over the park and it's playground equipment." Officer Hauter advised the older kids to leave the playground equipment to the smaller kids and to share the park appropriately. Tracy will continue to monitor the situation.

REPORTING PUBLIC SAFETY ISSUES AND CODE VIOLATIONS

Matters of Public Safety and Quality of Life issues are important to us all. But if we don't know about them, we can't get them fixed. If you have or know about any issues in your neighborhood here is what you can do:

1) Provide details of the incident including location, date and time.

2) Photos can be a valuable tool if you have them, include photos

3) Email the information to PublicSafety@UNNC.org

4) You will receive a confirmation that the information has been received.

5) Public Safety will then work directly with Council District 10, Law Enforcement, Code Enforcement and Building and Safety to get the matter resolved.

See you around the Avenues!