Code Enforcement issues in Castleberry Hill are to reported to this sub-committee. If there are questions pertaining to reporting code enforcement or general questions please direct them here.
Chair: Ed Haefner
Meetings: Please see Events calendar
Important Links & Contacts:
Announcements:
- Are you tired of hand bills (flyers) littering our neighborhood? Do you want to get involved in the neighborhood, but not sure where to begin? Follow these five steps and make a difference ...
1) Park your car on the street (Tuesday through Saturday are the best days)
2) Take pictures of the flyers on YOUR CAR (Why?? "you did not give permission" for anyone to put flyers on YOUR CAR)
3) Remove the handbills (flyers) from your car, record the date, save these for court
4) Send edhaef@gmail.com the pictures of your car with flyers, your name and contact information (Why?? So I can alert you when the court date is scheduled)
5) Show up in court (this should only take a few hours but could help end the handbills littering our neighborhood and others)
Castleberry Hill is leading the charge to help clean up the hand bill trash ... but we cannot do this without your active involvment. Please contact Ed Haefner with any questions @ edhaef@gmail.com.
- PLEASE PICK UP AFTER AND LEASH YOUR DOGS...IT'S THE LAW!
- The Code Enforcement committee and Executive Board of the CHNA has determined that many properties in the neighborhood are violating City of Atlanta Code. Graffiti, weeds and dumping has increased in the last 6 months. Un-kept neighborhoods and cities are havens for criminals. The book "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell illustrates this point on the rise and fall of New York City. New York saw rapid declines in crime due to small but influential changes in the city environment. To reverse trends in crime, city officials started focusing on small things like graffiti, subway toll skippers and public acts of degeneracy.
In keeping in this same context, many properties in Castleberry Hill will be reported to the Code Compliance office for similar violations. As it stands now, there are 105 code issues and city issues. We ask that you do your part by removing graffiti from your building, pulling weeds on your property and cleaning up your property (up to and including the sidewalk and curb).
By showing we care and taking care of our neighborhood we can send a message to criminals that we will not stand for their actions. Help us set an example for the entire city.
A LIST OF CODE VIOLATORS CAN BE FOUND HERE!
We invite you to join the CHNA Google Group to stay updated on code and safety issues.
Another crucial aspect of the complex processes and mechanisms that cause trends to "tip" into mass popularity is what Gladwell terms the Power of Context. If the environment or historical moment in which a trend is introduced is not right, it is not as likely that the tipping point will be attained. To illustrate the power of context, Gladwell takes on the strangely rapid decline in violent crime rates that occurred in the 1990s in New York City.
Although Gladwell acknowledges that a wide variety of complex factors and variables likely played a role in sparking the decline, he argues convincingly that it was a few small but influential changes in the environment of the city that allowed these factors to tip into a major reduction in crime. He cites the fact that a number of New York City agencies began to make decisions based on the Broken Windows theory, which held that minor, unchecked signs of deterioration in a neighborhood or community could, over time, result in major declines in the quality of living.
To reverse these trends, city authorities started focusing on seemingly small goals like painting over graffiti, cracking down on subway toll skippers, and dissuading public acts of degeneracy. Gladwell contends that these changes in the environment allowed the other factors, like the decline in crack cocaine use and the aging of the population, to gradually tip into a major decline in the crime rate in the city.
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