Enforcement of Township Codes  

  Enforcement of Township Codes -
A perennial problem has been enforcement of codes -  parking, barking, noise, lights, litter, solicitors,  etc  - which is done ( at least in part, if not entirely ) by the police once the code department has instituted the codes.
It should not be up to the residents to know  who is responsible for any individual violation  ( police, code enforcement department, parks director, public works ...)  Once it is reported to anyone it should be  sent to the right person and the resident should have a response that it is taken care of .  

    Instead, residents all over the township have been ignored - and even berated by the Chief of Police.  Many of these repeated violations ( weeds and grass not kept properly , trash, etc ) could be reported by township personnel  who travel the roads regularly - so there is no excuse for some to have gone on as long as they have .  In the case of St Michaels there were provisions of zoning went unenforced for over 22 years. In our parks, areas have become so disgusting that citizens or groups have gathered volunteers to clean them, while the people whose job it is to keep them clean are not called to task.  All of our house values are affected when our township codes are not enforced - as is our quality of life .

    If you have such an issue please contact us & share your problems and ideas for solutions.  
We have had residents that have gone for years and years in this township with the same violators not being required to  change their habits, yet no fines were issued and no explicit change in the process is being offered to residents .
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Abington Township revamped the entire Township website at the end of 2015 and broke all the links to the information. In 2017, under Richard Manfredi, someone inexperienced was assigned to redo the entire website again. The public was not asked what problems they would like to see fixed. Their new plan was not well thought out, so everything was very hard to find and there were giant paragraphs you had to slog through in order to find the pertinent one or two lines that you needed. Or if you were lucky enough to even find the meetings and agenda page, there was (and still is) a whole page of nonsense on top, so you think you're on the wrong page. Zoom limks are burrid in a giant paragraph, so people can't find them to attend the meeting. They know about these  problems - but have just decided to ignore us.... for the whole of Richard Manfredi's time here (with Tom Hecker's consent).

 Now, in 2025, we are due to get a new Manager, and there are funds put aside to, once again, upgrade the Township website. We can only hope for a fresh chance at fixing some of these things, as our Township website is the best tool we have for communication and should be an easy, user friendly site for all.

We need volunteers willing to work together to help improve the Township site that everyone has to use,  to make it functional and accessible. 

 We will be repairing our broken links in this Abington Citizens site, too, and fixing some of our many, many typo's as much as is possible. (Yes, it's quite evident that, unlike the Township, WE don't have a paid staff of 275+ or a $93 million budget).

 So...please let us know if you find broken links or typos. Send us the URL and/or and the name of the page it is on, so we can correct it.
Thanks for the help.

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