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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