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How you doin’ Red Phone, got a question. Is there a limit to the
amount of cars one residence can have? Reason being is that on
Mantelli Drive between Hirasaki Avenue and Santa Teresa Boulevard
there is a house that has two cars in the driveway, one in the
garage and five on the street, with an additional one parked next
to the mail station at the entrance of our cul-de-sac on Hirasaki
Court. They look like ‘fixer upper’ cars and constantly have their
hoods up. It is an eyesore.
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No limit to number of cars, but they must be moved every 3 days
“How you doin’ Red Phone, got a question. Is there a limit to the amount of cars one residence can have? Reason being is that on Mantelli Drive between Hirasaki Avenue and Santa Teresa Boulevard there is a house that has two cars in the driveway, one in the garage and five on the street, with an additional one parked next to the mail station at the entrance of our cul-de-sac on Hirasaki Court. They look like ‘fixer upper’ cars and constantly have their hoods up. It is an eyesore.”
Dear No Place to Park,
Red Phone’s got an idea. Get some of those “For Sale” by owner placards and write the phone number (846-0264) of the code enforcement officer on them. That ought to keep ’em busy.
Seriously though, Code Enforcement Officer Scott Barron, said the city does not limit the number of vehicles a person can own, however Municipal Code Section 15.67 states ‘No person who owns or has possession, custody and control of any vehicle shall park such vehicle upon any street or alley for more than a period of 72 consecutive hours. In the event a vehicle is parked or left standing upon a street in excess of 72 consecutive hours, it may be considered abandoned and any member of the police department authorized by the chief of police may remove such vehicle from the street…’ If the vehicles are inoperable however, there are several code sections that regulate the storing and maintenance of inoperable vehicles in residential zones and the public way.
“As a result, Barron said, “if the caller files a complaint this could be investigated.” Call 846-0264 to file a complaint.
Library entrance looks trashy
“I just think that the entrance to the Gilroy Library looks awful. There’s chipped paint along the planter, there’s nothing in the planter, nothing’s been in the planter for months now. The garbage can looks a mess, the stairs look a mess. It’s just not the kind of thing we need in Gilroy. Thank you.”
Dear Chipped,
Red Phone contacted Carla Ruigh, operations services manager, who said the city handles the landscaping at the library. City officials are looking at ways to save money, and one of those is by replacing the annual plants with perennials.
“This is one of the locations that will be switched,” Ruigh said. “The city will probably re-plant the area in the next month or two.”
So, good caller, I bet know you want to know the difference between a perennial and an annual and how it will save the city money. Well, here it is. A perennial means that the plant or the offspring of the plant will return year after year without fail. An annual plant means just that. Annual means yearly. The plant will be produced, bloom (or not) and die in the same year. By not having to replant every year, the city should save money, and the front of the library should look great come fall.
As far as the garbage can is concerned, Ruigh said she thinks that maybe garbage was sticking out of the top when the reader saw it, and it has since been emptied.
“Sometimes with these older cans with small openings, people won’t push the garbage into the can thereby blocking the opening,” she said. “Even though there is room in the can, people start to just leave the garbage on top because the opening is blocked, making it look pretty messy. This is taken care of when the facility is serviced.
If anyone sees the can with garbage piling out, they can call 846-0444. As to the paint chipping, the complaint was sent to the city’s facility manager to respond.
