Comments on: Hartung Quarry Landfill https://windypundit.com/2006/10/hartung_quarry_landfill/ Classical liberalism, criminal laws, the war on drugs, economics, free speech, technology, photography, sex work, cats, and whatever else comes to mind. Mon, 28 Jan 2013 05:50:53 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Don https://windypundit.com/2006/10/hartung_quarry_landfill/#comment-480 Wed, 17 Aug 2011 21:45:29 +0000 http://www.windypundit.com/?p=583#comment-480 Deb,
You are a great story teller, people sitting in front sucking beers? junk cars left on the street? The city of Milwaukee workers where sent in the correct these issues?

Wow, we must all be blind. The city workers where there to trim the trees that were over growing from the quarry, the owner of one of the buildings had been contacting the DPW and forestry department for close to 4 years about those trees that grow along the fence and constantly got the run around about who was responsible for them (the Parks Dept or DPW) some of the trees actually fell on cars in the parking lots and blocked entry to the drives.

Yes one of the buildings has a pretty regular turn around of tenants which makes for some unsightly trash build up. But when you call the city for a special pickup of the trash it takes 2 or 3 weeks before they send a crew to pick it up. And the property owner is charged for the pickup as well.

Abandoned cars on the street are clearly not legal and if someone sees one they should report so the city can tow it away.

The park they built which I refer to as Weed Park, is a complete joke. They have some playground equipment on the corner and hills of weeds. The city replaced the street and put in sidewalks and grass along the quarry fence line and just lets the grass grow, it’s been going on 3 months and they haven’t looked at it.
calling people slumlords for renting to people who may not be able to afford owning a home in this economy is unfair and your Subsidized Housing comment reeks of racial profiling. People who rent in these buildings work their butts off as well to live in a nice area.

]]> By: Deb https://windypundit.com/2006/10/hartung_quarry_landfill/#comment-479 Tue, 16 Nov 2010 07:11:40 +0000 http://www.windypundit.com/?p=583#comment-479 I know this website is pretty old. It’s now Nov 2010. Sorry, but these properties don’t alway look so good. Grass is not cut for a month at a time, constantly overflowing garbage carts that stay out at curbside, which is a city ordinance violation, broken windows, junked cars in front, etc. The residents are too lazy to wheel the garbage carts back behind the bldg after garbage pickup, but they have plenty of time to sit on their front stoops and suck beer. These properties had gotten so bad with bldg code violations, the City of Milwaukee brought in city workers this year to correct these numerous violations. The city had contacted the out of town non resident (surprised?) owner numerous times to no avail. He is basicaly a suburban slumlord that is getting federal dollars to have subsidized housing. The first photo of these multi family units is owner occupied. It’s obvious the owner takes pride in his property. We are all of very modest incomes in this area, but we work our butts off to keep up our properties.

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