Hot take(?): the amount of street sweeping done in the Point is flat-out predatory
Hear me out, neighbors. I get it. It’s a densely populated part of the city. A lot of people in one place with not nearly enough trash barrels.
But respectfully, what the fuck?! This is the area that has the least number of driveways per household, so there are more people parking on the street at any given time. So making street sweeping every two weeks from April to October is totally asinine and a headache for residents to move their car so they don’t get towed. To add insult to injury, they need to pay to park in the garages if they go past a certain time before picking up their car. And the city doesn’t even have the decency to grant the Point year-round resident parking, so it’s always a mad dash to find a spot anyway.
Don’t even get me started on the new place, Todisco, (that replaced Bill’s after they closed) that is conducting said towings. I’ve heard from a couple people who, when they went to pick up their towed car, there was _visible_ damage done to their car, and when they went to square up about the damage they very obviously did while towing, they ghost on the charges.
Add on top of all this bs that they stopped posting the orange signs to remind people (it’s all posted online now) and it’s hard not to think that this whole goddamn thing isn’t overtly exploitative to the neighborhood with the highest concentration of residents who may not be super tech literate or speak English as a second language, who then have to shell out $200 to pick up their car PLUS a parking ticket to pay.
This is mostly a rant, but other people in the Point, am I being unrealistic? Do we really need street sweeping every two weeks? Everywhere else in the city is less frequent. I just think this whole thing is a racket to separate people from their money in less than totally scrupulous ways. Can I petition the city to reduce it to once a month maybe so they can use those funds elsewhere?
TL:DR - IMO, there’s too much street sweeping in the Point. I’m annoyed and really hoping I’m not the only one!