By Kimberli
A picture says a 1000 words.
There is/was no posted sign that our streets are going to be swept. Maybe the cars would not have parked at this location if there had been. The sweeper stopped at St. Agnes church located in Point Loma on Evergreen and Canon. The actual storm drain is across Canon street on Evergreen, but instead of continuing to the storm drain area 500 feet away, the sweeper turned around.
The interactive map on the City’s website is labeled “Street sweeping route and schedule”. There is no schedule actually shown. I called the number listed on the city website. No answer. I left a message.
Non-effective tax dollars at work??
Was the new minted COO/Mayor SD driving ?
Toad’s Wild Ride ?
At least you are getting your street cleaned, albeit the center of the lane.
In District six the only way streets are “swept” is by an act of God or it rains.
When I saw this post I thought it was just silly, because (I thought) the street sweeping schedule is (or was) easy to find on the City’s web page for sweeping. I thought I would look it up and post the URL in a comment so that it would be there for anyone reading the article to find.
Well…not so easy. Where there used to be a table organized by district and alphabetical by street name there are now a number of documents that can be downloaded, unfortunately most of the formats are not something the ordinary person would find usable, unless that ordinary person is really into GIS. There is a file format that is readable by a text editor or spreadsheet program, but its organization is not easy to use alphabetical.
It really seems that they don’t want the public to be able to find the schedule. Maybe that is because, in my experience, the street sweeper doesn’t always come on the scheduled day. For example, my street gets swept the fourth Wednesday of every even numbered month. I cannot remember the street ever being swept in December, I assume because the operator is taking time off during the holidays to be with family. This is very disappointing as street sweeping is a water quality issue, and, of course, we normally get significant rain in the winter months.
BTW, is have calendar reminders set for street sweeping day so that I can remember to move my car.
I have found this same confusion everywhere in the city. It looks like they have made it deliberately difficult to get information that was once not hard to find, especially permit information. The “transparency” of this administration reminds me of the old TV sigh off when the picture became a smaller and smaller circle until it went poof.
Hey, at least your street is being swept albeit only the center of the street. Where I live in District six, it takes an act of God to get the street swept.
Thanks Kent Lee (that’s sarcasm in case you couldn’t figure that out).
I’m a DFL – Democrat until they kill me in the gulags and pull off my toes, I will always vote there But Gloria is an idiot & hasn’t cleaned, pitched or sweetly ran this city. His crappy $1,500 suit tells me so.
He needs to wise up. He’s losing the electorate.
Hearts & Minds.
Something so simple as a schedule is too hard for the city. I like the idea of setting an event in calendar to park somewhere else. That is… If you know when.
This is another instance of how the city has covered and hidden public information just like the city council has.
That photo was taken this morning, 2/26,between 9am and 11am since there was a funeral at St. Agnes this morning and I know one vehicle plus the hearse.
Theoretically, the city doesn’t sign streets that have lower parking volumes. Of course, with the city’s ADU laws, bike lanes, dense housing, etc. parking spaces are being more occupied these days. Even if the schedules were easy to find on the city’s website, those going to streets outside their homes wouldn’t be checking to see if they can stay off a street when working or attending a function.
To my knowledge the city doesn’t post signs on streets regarding street sweeping unless the city’s meter maids patrol the street for fines. Bike lanes added onto W. Pt. Loma Blvd had sweeping signs and meter maids trolled the area to give out fines weekly. Now that the bikes lanes replaced the parking, no revenue and dirty streets.
Years ago, the city found they could move the street sweeping service into the stormwater department so costs could be covered by the enterprise fund of water/sewer/stormwater. That means water bills have the cost passed through to homeowners. So, Gloria can’t legally sign and patrol more streets to gain revenue into the General fund.
Take a look at blocks surrounding Barnard near W. Pt. Loma Blvd and Midway/Sports Arena. That entire area of dense housing has almost all spaces filled all day, but is not signed for street sweeping. So, those streets haven’t had a sweeper at the curb in years. If they get there, they just ride in the middle of the street. What a waste of time and money.
Be careful what you wish for. I used to live in LA and the sound of the street sweepers still strike terror in my gut every time I hear them. Memories of (twice weekly) my entire neighborhood scrambling out of their apartments in a panic to move their cars around in an impossible game of musical chairs… constantly having to remember which side of the street would get swept next, and on which day, and wondering where I could I put my car for that two hour window if I wasn’t quick enough to grab a spot on the other side of the street (and only 1/2 of us could win this game each time)! SO many ruinous parking tickets–mainly in the poor neighborhoods like the one I lived in. The parking enforcement fleet were spectacular in their ruthless efficiency. If street sweeping began at 10am, someone would have started writing your ticket at 9:59.
Clean streets and storm drains are important–but beware. With the city’s increasing hostility toward those who own cars, coupled with the desperation to “fund raise” via fees, I predict Gloria will eventually concoct a similar aggressive street sweeping (with tickets) scheme one of these days.