- make lots of noise after hours,
- run unlicensed businesses from the house or garage,
- leave the garbage Toters out all week,
- keep more dogs, chickens, or pot belly pigs in the yard than are allowed,
- park the boat or trailer in the street or driveway for days at a time,
- water the lawn every day during the summer water conservation months,
- never mow the towering lawn/weeds,
- "decorate" their property with junk vehicles or other nuisance objects,
- conduct drug-related activities on the property, or
- any number of other things contrary to municipal codes
#1 - Upgrade Code Enforcement and Animal Control
This is a top priority quality of life issue. I will seek to move the Code Enforcement and Animal Control departments from the police department and establish them either as their own Neighborhood Preservation department or as a department within the Solid Waste Division, in order to completely cover the streets of Manteca every week.
When people live closely within a city, it only takes one bad neighbor to ruin a peaceful neighborhood. Consistent, firm and timely enforcement of the municipal codes makes life in our neighborhoods - on our streets - quieter, cleaner, easier, and even safer.
Few people, hopefully, have true Neighbors From Hell, but there are a lot of neighbors who:
The City of Manteca claims to be the Family City. However, its image suffers because many residents do not know the municipal codes - or refuse to follow them for whatever reason. Worse yet, more than a few city officials (police, building, zoning, public works, etc.) do not know the codes. Understandably, neighbors of scofflaws do not trust city officials to be impartial or effective in enforcing the ordinances. It is time to completely reverse the statement made by a former Director of Community Development, when he said, "It is not my job to clean up the mistakes of the past!"
If those "mistakes" regarding quality of life CAN be cleaned up, they SHOULD be cleaned up.
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