The new proposed trash can ordinance has me a bit on the fence;
The Sioux Falls City Council will vote this month on an ordinance that would require residents to keep trash cans hidden — either inside, behind or beside a structure.
Personally, I keep my cans in my garage. The main reason is because I have gotten dogs, cats and other critters who have gotten into them when leaving them outside. I have even had random people ‘add’ to my garbage. I would agree with this assumption though;
Some garbage haulers are worried a proposed change to keep trash bins out of sight will mean more customers forgetting to put them out on collection day.
I forget quite a bit, mainly because my hauler teamed up with another one and they changed my collection day, but also as the old adage goes, out of site, out of mind. I probably forget about 25% of the time to put my trash out.
In some ways the ordinance doesn’t make any sense, because obviously they will still allow the cans to be out on your driveway on collection day, so in some ways, there will always be cans visible any day of the week, on any block in this town. Secondly, most people don’t own there receptacles, so how do you enforce a homeowner to store a trash can that they do not own? And lastly, I am a big property rights person, the city telling people where they need to put their cans is just silly, I think this line says it all;
“To me, it’s just a vote on city aesthetics,†LaVergne said Monday, standing in his driveway in southwest Sioux Falls.
Once again, we have become a city that is worried how things look on the surface instead of worrying about the bigger issue, how much will this cost us in higher fees from the haulers when they have to start digging around for our cans? That and the fact that the landfill is increasing drop rates. Once again it seems we are looking for a solution to a problem that doesn’t need to be fixed and will only end up costing us more.
Dumbass city.
If you hide your trash cans, what will the homeless have to eat? Our working poor and crime are bigger problems. The council is worried about what kind of steak sauce you put on your shoe leather?
Wait til they crab about sump pump hoses or Frickn shopping news tossed all over the streets. Mail boxes along curbs are not very attractive either. So according to mmm. Who are the good neighbors and who are the bad. Do they don armbands so we know. Are they asking our kids to rat us out. Maybe they are in the churches like they were in Germany during the war. We have given up many freedoms with goofs like mmm cooper and Schmitt dictating standards like shape places. I’m not surprised that a lot of folks don’t care as long as the tv and cell works. It will be fun to see the trash cops in action
SO I’m not a fan of Christmas lights being installed and/or operated in months other than December. Who’s all in favor of getting an ordinace on the books? I’m not a fan of the cornhusker, vikings or the packers. Whos will join me in creating a new “aesthetics” ordinace for these issues. Looks likes it fairly easy to get this done. Only 12 of 150,000 residents complained about garbage cans and they got a new ordinance.
What kind of precious person feels the need to call the city because he/she doesn’t like the looks of the nieghbors garbage can? I would love to have that persons limited number of problems and free time.
The city was given a very long leash with home rule charter. Seems to me they insist on adding a few liks to that chain each year.
So whos up for a quick game of hide the can from the garbage man.
Two things went through my mind when I moved to Sioux Falls in 2007:
1. All these “casinos” make your city look cheap.
2. Why are people too lazy to put their damn trash cans away?
I know that generations of Sioux Fallsians have apparently grown up with this lazy habit of leaving a giant trash can outside their homes, or sometimes two, because they just couldn’t possibly be bothered to put them in their garage – which plenty of other cities require in no small part for health and sanitation reasons. Because I’d really rather not see your poorly-secured garbage can knocked over by a raccoon, or blown over after a thunderstorm.
If the city just enforced the ordinance already on the books, you’d all have to move your cans into the garage anyway, since there’s no place in the front of one’s property that’s inconspicuous.
Seriously, just put your s@#$ in your garage. Nobody else wants to look at it.
Might I suggest Minneapolis? They have rules for everything.
I’m offended by everthing!! We must have more rules. Said the jerk wtih a pink house and year round christmas lights.
Politics in this town is so entertaining…..
Chickens in the backyard and, now, garbage cans on the curb…..
Never a dull moment 🙂