littering (Plano, Keller: HOA, house, neighborhoods)

[stan4]

Say, does anyone else get mounds of 'newspapers' (which are really big ads) thrown on their driveways and other circulars rubber-banded to their front doors?

How is this not littering? And if it is littering, how do we prosecute?

[nsumner]

In my business I have found it to be a security risk as well. It tells you which house is vacant or people are out of town.

May be the laws on the USPS mailbox thing should be untightened to allow these businesses put their adds in the mailbox instead of flying around yards and streets.

Naima

[kacvb1974]

Recently read a Plano resident's thread about a similar topic. What's with all the "newspapers?" Sounds like y'all get really pummeled with circulars and papers more than even usual. Sucks. But there's a link in that thread where you can supposedly opt out of the newspapers. A poster said his volume was reduced.

We have a fair share in my neighborhood too and I spend an awful lot of time picking them up out of the yard and the street. Wind+paper=backache for me and I agree it seems no different than littering! And lately the folks who walk the neighborhood attaching tree trimming services and Chinese menus to my door have started ringing our bell to "just alert me" it's there. Just love that.

[NewTexans]

aarrrgh.. daggone newspapers. I think Tallula Bankhead once said: "...only thing I use the newspaper for is to wrap my fish in."

I hear ya.

back when I lived "up North" in Ohio's brutal winters, we loved all the newspapers--it was great kindling and fire-starters.

NOT in Texas!

[loves2read]

in some neighborhoods/towns there are regulations to control this
many times the distributors have to have a liscence which many do not have--they can be fined by the police--of course the people doing the actually walking around are just people paid almost nothing by someone who drops them off and picks them up
check with your city and HOA and see what their rules are---
in the Mid-Cities in my neighborhood we have almost none of that because it is against our HOA deed restrictions...and people call to report offenders--they have learned not to really target our neighborhood

[stan4]

It's against our HOA, too, and the HOAs even made signs, but that doesn't stop anyone.

[5stones]

you can stop the rubberband ads on your front door, IF your city has a city ordience for it.
Keller does and I got a NO soliciting sticker (free from the city) and I no longer have the rubberband pizza ads etc... Also I don't any of the door to door creeps selling magazines etc for a "fresh start in life"!
I've watched them get partway up the walk and then turn around. Since it's posted and agaisnt a city ordinence if they leave it they could get a fine and thier license taken a way.

[stan4]

5stones, you know what's funny? People steal the signs!

[loves2read]

you have to be home to know when it is happening but you can call the police--usually if it means the police can levy a fine and make money they will come out fast enough to catch them in the act...sometimes the more they catch the bigger the fine...