I've seen this just as described as well. Lots of people walk in this neighborhood, it's disgusting especially in the summer. Maybe this building requires a dumpster instead of so many separate toters, like most commercial properties.

Respectfully, no dumpster. They had one several years ago and it was much, much worse. The unauthorized dumping from everyone in the neighborhood and the entirety of central Raleigh caused even worse smell and odor. The amount of garbage which flowed out of the previously placed dumpster was amazing and awful. The likely reason the owner removed the dumpster is because the dumpster trucks ruined their asphalt driveway (which they patched as cheaply as they could) and because they were paying the dumpster company to remove and dispose of not just the garbage from 301 Dale Street, but the garbage from everyone else who illegally dumped there. 301 Dale Street needs to confine its garbage within the boundaries of 301 Dale Street - for instance adjacent to the railroad tracks where garbage will not bother anyone. It should not be dumped on an adjacent lot (which is zoned for residential uses) in the front yard directly in front of residential homes.

@045uyhrgl83 Thank you for the history, I didn't know all of that. I have to agree with you after reading your comment.

Those parking areas are a haven for people hanging out, I can only imagine how easy it would be to pull in and dump whatever without being seen.

This location is not maintained by the City of Raleigh. We will close this See Click Fix inquiry at this time as only the City uses SCF to track issues in our area.

If you wish to follow up directly:
Street issues / potholes / trash on highway – NCDOT: https://apps.dot.state.nc.us/ContactUS/PostComment.aspx?Unit=Division_5

Wires: Duke Energy Progress : https://www.progress-energy.com/app/OutageEntry/default.aspx;

AT&T: (800) 222-0300; Time Warner Cable: (919) 348-2853

Streetlights: Duke Energy Progress: https://www.progress-energy.com/app/OutageEntry/default.aspx

Is the city not following up on quality of life-type violations on see click fix any longer? Aren't actions (or lack of action) like what's described here against city ordinances?

Is that why there is no way to report such in the new Categories on SCF, except for the Note to Neighbors, which is not going to cut it. It's near impossible to get landlords to do anything unless the city addresses the problem.

Thank you for contacting the city of Raleigh about this SeeClickFix request. Your request ID is 277407. We will be posting additional updates about your request as we have them.

Unlawful trash disposal/dumping on a lot located within the City limits, and the improper storage of garbage containers which ARE in fact City-owned property is, most certainly, a City issue deserving of attention by the City Inspection Department, particularly when such conditions create hazards and nuisance conditions that residents pay City taxes to defray the costs associated with policing and addressing these matters. Please have someone with the City inspections department visit the property to witness the conditions on the property and acknowledge having done so here in this Seeclickfix forum which the City created for this very purpose. Thank you.

This location is not maintained by the City of Raleigh. We will close this See Click Fix inquiry at this time as only the City uses SCF to track issues in our area.

If you wish to follow up directly:
Street issues / potholes / trash on highway – NCDOT: https://apps.dot.state.nc.us/ContactUS/PostComment.aspx?Unit=Division_5

Wires: Duke Energy Progress : https://www.progress-energy.com/app/OutageEntry/default.aspx;

AT&T: (800) 222-0300; Time Warner Cable: (919) 348-2853

Streetlights: Duke Energy Progress: https://www.progress-energy.com/app/OutageEntry/default.aspx

Please review your UDO (some select sections included below) and inspect the property to take required enforcement action.

Article 7.2. Landscaping and Screening

Sec. 7.2.1. Intent

A. The intent of the landscaping regulations is to provide meaningful and well designed screening and buffering.

B. Tree and shrub plantings should not interfere with the safe vehicular and pedestrian circulation on the site.

Sec. 7.2.2. Applicability

A. General
No permit for the construction, reconstruction, extension, repair or alteration of any building, structure or use of land and no building or land or any part of any building or land, may be occupied or used until landscaping has been provided in accordance with the requirements of this UDO.

Sec. 7.2.5. Screening

. . . .

C. Service Areas
1. Trash collection, trash compaction, recycling collection and other similar service areas shall be located to the side or rear of buildings and must be screened from view from adjacent property or public street right-of-way (not including an alley).
2. Service areas that are fully integrated into a building must be screened with a roll down door or other opaque screen.
3. Service areas that are not integrated into a building shall be screened from three sides by a wall at least 6 feet in height and on the fourth side by a solid gate at least 6 feet in height. The gate and wall shall be maintained in good working order and shall remain closed except when trash pick-ups occur. The wall and gate shall be compatible with the principal building in terms of texture, quality, material and color.

Article 11.9. Nonresidential Building or Structure Code

. . .

Sec. 11.9.2. Purpose
In order to protect the health, safety and welfare of the City and its citizens, it is the purpose of this Article to establish minimum standards of maintenance, sanitation, and safety relating to nonresidential buildings or structures, as expressly authorized by North Carolina General Statute §160A-439. This Article provides for the repair, closing or demolition of nonresidential buildings or structures as a result of a public necessity caused by conditions that are dangerous to the public health, safety and welfare.

. . .

Sec. 11.9.5. Maintenance Standards for Nonresidential Buildings and Structures
All nonresidential buildings and structures shall be free of all conditions that are dangerous and injurious to the public health, safety, and welfare of occupants or members of the general public. The existence of any of the following conditions shall be deemed to be dangerous to the public health, safety and welfare for which a public necessity exists for the repair, closing, or demolition of such building or structure and must be corrected in accordance with the provisions of this Article:

. . . .

G. Buildings and structures including their environs that have accumulations of garbage, trash, or rubbish. All garbage and solid waste shall be in approved containers or stored in a safe and sanitary manner.

Chapter 12. Definitions | Article 12.2. Defined Terms
Housing Code Definitions

. . .

Recyclable Material
Material including, but not limited to, metals (including vehicles which have been crushed off site), glass, rubber (including tires), plastic, paper and scrap, which is intended for reuse or reconstitution for the purpose of using the altered form. Recyclable material shall not include hazardous materials and wastes (as defined in 40 CFR 261.3 to 261.33 or as the same may be amended by law), garbage, biodegradable refuse such as food, medical wastes or other similar material and wrecked, dismantled or partially dismantled automobiles.

. . .

Rubbish
Combustible and noncombustible waste materials, except garbage and ashes and the term shall include paper, rags, cartons, boxes, wood, excelsior, rubber, leather, tree branches, yard trimmings, tin cans, metals, mineral matter, glass, crockery and dust.

Thank you for contacting the city of Raleigh about this SeeClickFix request. Your request ID is 277439. We will be posting additional updates about your request as we have them.

This location is not maintained by the City of Raleigh. We will close this See Click Fix inquiry at this time as only the City uses SCF to track issues in our area.

If you wish to follow up directly:
Street issues / potholes / trash on highway – NCDOT: https://apps.dot.state.nc.us/ContactUS/PostComment.aspx?Unit=Division_5

Wires: Duke Energy Progress : https://www.progress-energy.com/app/OutageEntry/default.aspx;

AT&T: (800) 222-0300; Time Warner Cable: (919) 348-2853

Streetlights: Duke Energy Progress: https://www.progress-energy.com/app/OutageEntry/default.aspx

To the City of Raleigh and SeeClickFix:

Do not close this matter without a detailed response as to why, which so far has not been provided. If residents cannot use SeeClickFix to report issues of concern or code violations to the City (and the per the COR's response in closing this matter only the City can address locations "maintained by the City" and "only the City uses SCF to track issues in our area") . . . then please take the entire website down so residents do not waste any more time with SCF as this statement suggests SCF is only for use by the City in reporting problems located in the City of Raleigh (which is entirely non-sensical). SCF is supposed to be a portal for use by RESIDENTS of the City of Raleigh. Otherwise, we will just start calling and emailing the Inspections Department directly and SCF is completely useless. Please advise if that is what we should do in the future instead of using SCF.

Further, this matter does not involve "Street issues / potholes / trash on highway – NCDOT."

It does not involve "Wires: Duke Energy Progress"

It does not involve AT&T: (800) 222-0300; Time Warner Cable.

It also does not involve Streetlights: Duke Energy Progress.

This SeeClickFix matter (request ID 277121, 277407, and 277439) involves the use of property within the City's jurisdiction at 1220 Pierce Street that appears to clearly violate codes and standards for storage and disposal of trash, rubbish, and/or recyclable material (codes and standards which have been provided to the City in this SeeClickFix thread).

Please do not respond to this matter acknowledging the complaint and then closing it for a 4th time a mere hour later by simply suggesting we call someone else to address this concern that has no authority to do so. Duke, TWC, AT&T, and NCDOT have no authority to address the issue raised which the COR should investigate and confirm in connection with the violation of codes and standards for storage and disposal of trash, rubbish, and/or recyclable material which should be enforced by the City of Raleigh and is the very purpose of SeeClickFix to bring such matters to the City's attention so they can be timely and rightly corrected.

Please identify which "Verified Official" on behalf of the City acknowledges this matter further (and any such "Verified Official" who is listed as closing this matter), and include email and phone contact information so that we may follow-up directly to inquire as to the reasons why this matter is being "acknowledged" and then immediately thereafter "closed" with no action being taken to even investigate the matter or even ensure this complaint is routed to the proper channels to be properly addressed by the City of Raleigh.

Thank you for contacting the city of Raleigh about this SeeClickFix request. Your request ID is 277456. We will be posting additional updates about your request as we have them.

@045uyhrgl83
Thanks for being persistent. I'm beginning to think this is simply a matter of the damn Categories. This was originally filed under Obstructions etc., I imagine because there was NO place to put it in otherwise.

So the City keeps sending an auto reply that this isn't their land to address...

If this is indeed the case, a real live person should direct us in how to get this properly routed.

This issue is being sent to the correct department.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

An inspector has been out to the property and the owners have been notified. This should be corrected. This issue is being closed at this time.

I prefer to keep this matter open UNTIL it is actually corrected. Thank you.

I will report back to this post.

This has been investigated and the carts where no longer at the street. We will keep a check on the are for the next 3 weeks.

Please re-read the original complaint at the top of this post.

The original complaint in this post is not that the owner was leaving the carts ON THE STREET after the Thursday pick-up of garbage and recycle. However, they do leave the carts out until at least Saturday and Sunday on regular occasion. That's the least of the violations.

The original complaint was about the location where the garbage and recycle carts are stored on 1220 Pierce (as opposed to on 301 Dale Street where the garbage/recycle is produced) and the fact that 1220 Pierce is used as a garbage and recycle dumping ground in a manner not permitted by the Code.

I will keep this matter open UNTIL the complaint originally posted is actually addressed AND corrected. Inspection staff visiting and checking on a Thursday to see that garbage and recycle carts have been returned to the property timely is NOT what the original complaint is about and is not responsive.

I will keep this post open until someone reviews and responds to the issues raised in the original complaint.

Thank you for contacting the city of Raleigh about this SeeClickFix request. Your request ID is 277839. We will be posting additional updates about your request as we have them.

I second the OP's comment above. City staff need to come out more often and really take a look at what's happening on that lot.

045uyhrgl83 & glenwoodian: While your persistence is admirable, this is not an issue suitable for reproting on the SeeClickFix software, due to the inherent limitations of all software systems.

Allow me to suggest that you both give me an old fashioned telephone call which would be more efficient that continual postings and repostings and the resultant frustrations. My number is (919) 996-4275. Louis Buonpane, City Manager's Office. Look forward to hearing from each of you.

Will do. Thank you.

Thanks for the phone call 045uyhrgl83, will have the appropriate staff follow up on the detailed information provided. Appreciate you taking the time to speak with us. Updates will be posted as we get information from enforcement officials.

Staff had a public nuisance case in progress. All the trash and the pile of limbs have been removed. Staff left a message for the representative of the company to give them a call so we can discuss some of the issues. We hope that this issue has been resolved.