With the number of rentals in this area, we really need stronger requirements and enforcement of rental properties. This is in reference to the amount of street parking, maintaining the house, and maintaining the landscape (mowing, weeding, pruning shrubs). The owner of the property needs to be responsible and hire competent landscaping services to maintain. We should not have to wait until the yard is overgrown until the city will begin to send letters. Also, the city drives by every house every week during pickup of cuttings etc. Two simple photos can be taken showing the address and the growth which is immediately addressed. It should not be up to the neighbors to report.
Traffic is a continual problem. We need enforcement.
The branding of this area as the Eastown neighborhood is not correct. We are not Eastown which is in the City of Grand Rapids.