Case Date:

3/26/2021

Living at the Switchyard apartment. This was for the handicap. That is how the grant was started . To help house the handicap. We have all tenants being disabled. Due to move I g the homeless people closer to Switchyard apartment complex. We now have major problems extremely now ! I have had a man living in our stairwell for the last 2 weeks. Shooting up with a needle and is holding a knife! My husband john and I both have been seeing this and my neighbor Anna / Scott also her caregiver jaxx had a close encounter On the stair well . Are apartment complex needs the stairwell in closed and a key pad for access . Every time it rains fillls up with homeless 1:00 2:00 in the morning! Loud drunk and smoking everything!

Case Date:

3/17/2021

trash throughout property, particularly near homeless encampment, around old Kmart store

Case Date:

3/16/2021

Outside the homeless shelter at switchyard park off the walking path are hundreds of cigarette butts. This is making the area look very trashy as well as dangerous for wildlife/animals. Please hold people that litter accountable. Please also talk to shelter organizers to provide trash stations for cigarette butts and help educate people responsible for littering.

Case Date:

3/11/2021

Homeless taking over the wall benches near the pickle-ball court and under the stairs coming out of the warehouse next to the trail. Grown men on the east side of the trail just south of Allen street openly drinking beer. Im appalled that in a park that isn't even complete is being taken over by the homeless. Thank god my kids are grown I would never allow my kids to go there. What is it going to take for the Mayor to address this issue? Is it going to be a child being stuck with a needle or someone being seriously injured? I would never allow my daughters walk alone on the trail and thats a shame! It's only a matter of time before one of these individuals snaps and will do something unthinkable.

Case Date:

3/7/2021

About .5 mile into the rail trail is a large homeless camp (off Country Club) from the entrance. The sites continue to grow & pop up. There are multiple concerns with this. 1. Contamination with the water by litter, human waste, & drug paraphernalia. 2. Affects to wild life through trash & humans inhabiting their homes. 3. Land is affected by litter & drug paraphernalia such as glass pipes & needles. 4. There are safety concerns with children playing in the creek due to human waste & drug paraphernalia being in the water, they could get diseases from contaminated needles or step on glass pipes. 5. This is a dangerous location for the homeless as they are in a flash flood location. It has completely flooded out on 2020 & 2019. 6. Safety concerns with those using the trail or those who live in the neighborhood on the other side. One of our tenants contacted the police for fear of someone being outside of his home in the middle of the night. We have also noticed foot prints being outside the windows when there was snow on the ground. We can send additional photos it needed & have also reported to Rebecca Swift. I do believe others in the community are noticing & possibly reporting. Thanks Danny & Zella Taylor

Case Date:

3/6/2021

Increasing numbers of homeless individuals are sleeping in their cars at the empty Kmart at night. People are now advertising it as a location online. That site needs City attention for redevelopment and monitoring. Eliminate the big box and know it is a great location for smart development close to the new hospital site for lodging, retail, restaurants, green space, and mixed-income housing. By the City not owning up to a solution for the unhoused it apparently is encouraging such individuals to encroach on private lands now. Find a designated park such as Switchyard with parking lots, green space, lights, and security to decriminalize sleeping. And even if not, put some effort into getting a large already commercially designated site back into active use in town. Thank you.

Case Date:

3/2/2021

Homeless camp with massive amounts of waste / garbage. Unsafe for the homeless and unsafe for ground water and nearby stream. Please address asap.

Case Date:

1/14/2021

tree caught fire at this homeless camp on the B-link There have been fires in this area for at least 6 months. I own the homes that back up to this section of the B-line. My properties and tenants are in danger. I pay you $70,000. a year in property taxes. I expect a clean and safe environment from the city. People are afraid to use the trail. The crime, filth, needles and fires have to stop. This is no longer a clean city and it is far from safe.

Case Date:

1/14/2021

homeless camp, fire outside in front of shelter, tree on right has caught fire before, also stove pipe in shelter, called police at noon on the 10th while I was working on a property 214 E Vermilya Ave. but no one showed up, at that time there was an active fire inside and out

Case Date:

1/14/2021

homeless shelter on B-link with accelerants shown on the left and trash that has been caught on fire and lots,lots, more trash