Excessive Growth
W Cottage Grove
- Case Date:
- 8/18/2025
city parcel - the first u report was reported on 7-2-25 the second report was reported on 8-5-25 the parcel is over grown with invasive plants and weeds are growing along the curb so the sidewalk is hard to use and it's the only sidewalk on the street. The house next to the city parcel is 1004 is also overgrown with invasive plants and the curb has weeds along it. The city parcel also gets trash from the dumpster from the Opportunity House.
Parking Meters and Citations
- Case Date:
- 6/2/2025
I received a parking ticket, I put money in the meter but it isn’t working. I don’t think it’s fair to get a ticket when your meter took my money but still reads red. 5 th meter N of Kirkwood on College, courthouse side of the street
Excessive Growth
W Cottage Grove City parcel
- Case Date:
- 8/5/2025
Response to case 204377 overgrown weeds and weeds along the curb is taking over the sidewalk. The sidewalk is hard to walk on with the overgrowth and school starts Wednesday so it's not a safe area for kids to walk on.
Potholes, Other Street Repair
322 E Cottage Grove AVE
- Case Date:
- 8/17/2025
Recently, the City has redone the intersections along East Cottage Grove to make the corners ADA-compliant. Unfortunately, the jobs were not completed. The installations of the warning plates are fine, but the street surfaces flanking them are not. The streets are all eaten up with deep, sharp gullies on each side of every installation at each corner of all four streets involved (Washington, Lincoln, Grant, and Dunn) where they cut through the concrete to prepare for the work. Also, the bit of asphalt applied to the corners afterwards was just mounded up and left bumpy and difficult for chairs (and walkers!) to navigate. Right now, all intersections are far more dangerous than they were before the project started, and if left in this condition will only get worse when debris, leaves, snow and ice begin to accumulate, and the rate of street degradation will intensify.
- Case Date:
- 8/18/2025
If you are done working on E Hunter Ave, please come and get your sign. Sign has been sitting in front of 1718 E Hunter Ave for the last 3 weeks. See picture. No work being done on the street since then. Thank you.
Accessibility Problem
Brick sidewalk on Kirkwood
- Case Date:
- 8/15/2025
The ADA requires that sidewalks be firm, stable and slip-resistant. Numerous bricks that make up the downtown sidewalk are loose or missing. I saw an older woman trip on one of these in front of Fountain Square this week. I helped her up and when her husband took her to the ER because she may have broken her ankle.
When it’s wet, these sidewalks are slippery than concrete sidewalks. They look nice but they are hazardous. At the least, the city needs to do a better job of maintaining them. Thank you.
Street Trees
1318 W Kirkwood AVE
- Case Date:
- 8/19/2025
Trees need trimmed at intersection of W Kirkwood Ave & N Ritter St please. Bus driver is saying it is scraping her bus making the turn. Thank you for all you do! Have a good day.
Excessive Growth
1645 S Olive St
- Case Date:
- 8/18/2025
Overgrown yard and vegetation piles are a hazard and promoting mosquito and tick habitat.
Trash
707 S Washington ST
- Case Date:
- 8/18/2025
The garbage pick-up guys broke our garbage can over a week ago as it was being dumped and took it away when they picked up the garbage. We still don't have a replacement can so my tenants were unable to get rid of their weeks worth of trash on pick-up day today. Can you PLEASE bring a new garbage can!!! There are two apartments in this house so we need the same large can. THIS IS MY SECOND REQUEST. THANK YOU!!!!
Excessive Growth
401 E 8th ST
- Case Date:
- 8/17/2025
Not sure which category this belongs under. The grass-cutters for this property and the one directly to the north and also the Grant Street Inn to the south routinely blow grass cuttings into the street. Sometimes, there is so much that it creates a cycling hazard, and then when the rain washes it all into the storm sewer grates and clogs them, temporary lakes form. Are the any regulations relating to the levying of fines to careless people who dump yard waste (grass, leaves, etc.) in the street?