Business owners sounded Martinsville’s ongoing efforts to arrange trash collection in the city district.
Officials, business owners and residents discussed the garbage collection during a meeting of the Tuesday evening community. The meeting was a continuation of discussions that members of the Martinsville City Council had during their regular January 28 session regarding the need to rethink how Uptown deals with rubbish collection.
At that Council meeting, the city staff said that Martinsville’s trash -related ordinances have not been updated since 1982. Staff want to update the trash collection ordinances to allow more effective implementation and increase efficiency.
Director of Public Works Greg Maggard spoke with community meeting participants how the city currently deals with the collection of trash in the Uptown district. Day day of the week, the city staff collects a trash turn, for which Maggard and others said is not ideal.
“When I first came here for my interview … I rode in Uptown and had trash bags scattered throughout the Uptown, and looked bad,” Maggard said. “I think we can all agree that looks bad.”
One of the suggested changes is to provide businesses at Uptown and residents with eight landfills, located in strategic areas, so no one will have to travel more than a few hundred meters to get rid of their trash. The location of the Dumpsters has not been designated, Maggard said, but they would either be owned by city ownership or property that the city is renting.
The staff believes that this plan would reduce the amount of sidewalk fertilizers, which officials said had more than aesthetic implications.
“We have a liability concern for trash on our sidewalks,” said Council member Aaron Rawls. “If we are blocking the means of savagery, then we are not ada [Americans with Disabilities Act] in accordance. ”
Other concerns include turning fertilizers that contribute to the population of Martinsville rodents.
“We have had issues where we have had people who have trash cans that are destroyed and the animals are entering them,” Maggard said.
Community meeting participants had mixed reactions to the suggestion. Some said the problem could be resolved if the turning trash would be caught more efficiently.
Some suggested that landfills would allow the city to reduce the number of days collected, and others thought it was one or/or proposal. Maggard described one more scenario as the first.
“We have three individuals and a truck that collects five days a week,” Maggard said. “The passing to this would be an individual with a truck, it could be once a week. … It depends on the garbage load. “
Other attendees asked if Dumpster’s suggestion was the future, showing the growing population of the city after the former -BB & T building turns into shelter.
“I think we’ll have to be prepared for this,” Maggard said. Housing development is likely to have its own depositor, he said.
Planning Commission member Joe Martin was among those who expressed concern about the approval of a change throughout the Uptown district, alluding to last year’s efforts to stop lights for stopping signs throughout the Uptown area .
“Let’s only make a big comprehensive change. This did well, right? “Martin said.
Maggard said he is not committed to a single strategy.
“I’m here to do what is the best for you guys,” he said. “If this is a kind of hybrid any kind of thing, I’m good with that. I really don’t care about one way or another as long as it works. “
Although a quorum of council members were present, no action was taken. Officials said they would consider the concerns mentioned as they move forward.
“I feel like everyone in this room really cares,” said hotel co -owner Martinsville James Hicks. “I feel like there are a lot of people smart in this room, and impresses me how many people appeared for this meeting. I think everyone should get their heads together. No one here is an enemy, there are no pairs. All live here.