CITY LAUNCHES “OPERATION MORSE CLEAN-UP
City Inspectors Target Morse Avenue Businesses and Buildings
In an unprecedented coordinated effort among ten city agencies and 40 city inspectors today converged on a three block stretch of Morse Avenue in Chicago’s Rogers Park community to enforce city health, safety, sanitation and consumer protection standards.
“In the last few years, our neighborhood has experienced an amazing renaissance, but Morse Avenue remains an ongoing challenge,” Alderman Joe Moore said. According to Moore, loitering, drug dealing and other anti-social activities continue to plague the 1300 to 1500 blocks of Morse.
“While most business and building owners are lawful members of the community, a few business owners and landlords contribute to the problems on Morse,” Moore noted. “A number of business owners continue to allow loitering and drug dealing outside their businesses and too many landlords fail to adequately screen their tenants,” he said. “Their refusal to take responsibility for controlling their businesses and buildings makes it much harder for their neighbors to run successful businesses and contributes to decline in the quality of life in the surrounding community.” Moore said.
Under the initiative launched by CAPS Area 3 Coordinator, Glen Brooks and Moore, businesses and buildings on the 1300, 1400 and 1500 blocks of Morse Avenue between Lakewood and Greenview Avenues will be subject to city inspection over a two-day period. Inspectors from eight city departments, including the Building Department’s Strategic Task Force, Consumer Services, Environment, Fire, Health, Law, Police, Revenue and Zoning will visit the businesses and buildings to ensure that all city health, safety, sanitation and consumer protection standards are being followed.
According to Brooks, the mission has a three-part purpose:
(1) The enforcement of municipal laws and regulations.
(2) A focus of municipal resources in a concentrated and coordinated effort to increase compliance with those laws and regulations.
(3) Fostering increased community participation and responsibility among stakeholders on Morse Avenue.
“Ultimately, our goal is to encourage all the landlords and business owners on Morse Avenue to become active and engaged members of our community,” Moore said. “We cannot hope to turn Morse Avenue around without their participation and support,” Moore added.
Moore and Brooks plan to host a meeting for business owners and landlords in the coming weeks to discuss the benefits of community involvement and responsible ownership.
Thank You Alderman Moore and Mr. Brooks.
12 comments:
Yup!
"My years in the Illinois House taught me that you could get a lot done, if you were willing to let someone else take the credit. Let someone else hold the press conference."
-Then Senator-elect Barack Obama
Charlie Rose
11/23/2004
"Yup"! ...let's disregard the FACT that if people hadn't complained, if this blog hadn't been written, the gravity of the situation may not have been revealed or acknowledged.
Rather than calling the truth seekers 'malcontents', why not celebrate the fact that enough attention has been brought forth to merit a thorough clean-up? The length of the process is dependent upon the amount of cooperation. So I thank Joe Moore for not only recognizing the state of affairs, but for beginning the process. Let's forget politics for awhile and just be 'grateful' that one bad area is getting the attention it deserves. And, thanks to Craig for the blog.
My thoughts on what Morse Ave should look like....
http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~la362/allimagecategories/streets/fullsize/street09.html
Charlie's vision of Morse Quick Click
>“In the last few years, our neighborhood has experienced an amazing renaissance...” Alderman Joe Moore said.
This IS amazing! I always thought I missed the Renaissance by 500 years and 5000 miles.
AHHHHH HAAAAAA No stop your killin me here!
If my math is right..... that is exactly the second time
in 4 plus years Hugh has shown that he in fact does posses a sense of humor.
Please don't make us wait another 4
"I walked into an all night diner....the sign said BREAKFAST ANY TIME so I ordered French Toast durring the Renaissance"
Steven Wright- A funny man
Timeline: I post a story, with-in an hour a friend of Joe's chimes in. Follow the stories and comments and you notice this goes on almost every story
Now that this inspection are turning out to be another joke on Joe, with businesses saying screw you, and more questions get raised, good ole Michael C is no where to be found.
But your comment hit the nail on the head, didn't it?
story posted by Craig Gernhardt at 1:22 PM
Comments:
There's that G**d**m "Do-Nothing" alderman of ours, at it again!
posted by Michael C. at 2:25 PM
Hey DevCorp North,
Doesn't Alderman Moore have his own website?
Can't he post his press releases on his own web site?
Aren't you going little over the top as the Alderman's property tax-payer funded ward organization?
Where's the press releases?
Alderman Joe Moore: Celebrating Diversity in Rogers Park
DevCorp North,
Do you post ALL the press releases you receive on your web site?
If not, how do you decide which press releases to post?
How did you decide to post Alderman Moore's press releases (January 28, 2005 and February 3, 2005)?
Do you have policy of posting all press release from all political candidates?
Did the Board of Directors of DevCorp North approve the posting of Alderman Moore's press releases?
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