CEQL Questionnaire # 1

This questionnaire is available in  PDF format.

Issues of Concern to

Albany Neighborhoods

 

(In)Adequacy of building code

 

Abandoned buildings

 

Abandoned cars

 

Abandoned shopping carts

 

After hours bars

 

Child neglect / latchkey environment

 

Drug dealers/houses

 

Garage sales

 

Garbage in streets

 

Group homes

 

Grouper law not enforced

 

Illegal businesses

 

Illegal car shops

 

Illegal or non-compliant parking lots

 

Improper (excessive) exterior (private) lighting

 

Inefficient judicial enforcement for repeat violators

 

Insufficient business property planning & maintenance

 

Insufficient property lighting – interior or exterior

 

Insufficient street lighting

 

Irrelevance of building code manual / lack of guide

 

Lack of compliance with garbage rules

 

Lack of coordination of complaint & resolution process

 

Lack of financial penalties against violations

 

Lack of incentive & initiative

 

Lack of maintenance or stabilization of properties

 

Lack of master plan

 

Lack of walking police patrols

 

Lawn parking

 

Loitering

 

Loud car radios

 

Loud parties

 

Minimize boarded up buildings

 

NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard)

 

Occupancy in violation of zoning

 

Panhandlers

 

Parking rules & enforcement

 

Police response time

 

Removal of visual screens (trees & shrubbery)

 

Sidewalk shoveling in winter

 

Union contracts requiring residency not enforced

 

Unscreened dumpsters

 

Unsecured multi-family dwellings (front doors open)