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I was downtown last week for the first time in quite a while. All I can say is.....wow what a dump.
We pay extra user fees but the City of Morgantown can't bother to even trim the weeds growing up through the sidewalks or around light poles or trees/planters. It's filthy.
Am I missing some new progressive, woke movement that city council has tapped into where you just let everything go to hell aesthetically?
No hyperbole intended, I've been to similar sized cities in developing countries who kept their municipal properties in better shape. What is happening here?
Why would any person even go down there? I'm ashamed of this town. This trip will be my last if I can help it.
They need to encourage (or mandate) building owners to clean up their buildings. Some look so run down and sad, especially on Spruce Street. The one apartment building there is half covered in ivy and there are some windows missing glass plates. That decrepit wooden green building on Pleasant Street need to come down too. The old Warner Theater is just rotting away and that marquee looks like it could collapse if we get a large snowstorm. Don't even get me started with that junk yard down at Vic's on Beechurst.
A little bit of paint, power washing, and weed trimming would go a long way for the majority of the properties.
They need to encourage (or mandate) building owners to clean up their buildings. Some look so run down and sad, especially on Spruce Street. The one apartment building there is half covered in ivy and there are some windows missing glass plates. That decrepit wooden green building on Pleasant Street need to come down too. The old Warner Theater is just rotting away and that marquee looks like it could collapse if we get a large snowstorm. Don't even get me started with that junk yard down at Vic's on Beechurst.
A little bit of paint, power washing, and weed trimming would go a long way for the majority of the properties.
Absolutely. I don't understand why the city itself doesn't remove vegetation from areas it maintains. Trash too.
Or are we old men from an era when property maintenance actually mattered? Maybe people today like run down crap holes?
They need to encourage (or mandate) building owners to clean up their buildings. Some look so run down and sad, especially on Spruce Street. The one apartment building there is half covered in ivy and there are some windows missing glass plates. That decrepit wooden green building on Pleasant Street need to come down too. The old Warner Theater is just rotting away and that marquee looks like it could collapse if we get a large snowstorm. Don't even get me started with that junk yard down at Vic's on Beechurst.
A little bit of paint, power washing, and weed trimming would go a long way for the majority of the properties.
Some of the buildings don't even look safe. The green building mentioned on Pleasant St is particularly bad. I even worry about a few of the larger buildings collapsing due to lack of maintenance. That has happened in other cities and is really dangerous due to how close the buildings are to one another.
I agree about the paint/powerwashing/weed trimming for most. I would not listen to a common excuse that they will soon be "covered in black soot from trucks". A few of the buildings that have been painted are right on the truck route and still look fine years later.
Among others, a few I see with cosmetic problems are attorney's offices and I can't believe they or their landlords don't have funds for issues like that. I would be embarrassed to have clients visit. If residents can get fined for not mowing grass on their own property, not sure why the city isn't addressing downtown properties.
Like spend endless resources on that diamond street encampment and install rainbow colored cross walks.
Isn't that the truth. I haven't posted on this topic in a while, but it finally got much needed media attention this past year. Just like what many posters observed at the beginning of this thread, the virtue signalers come out in full force whenever the downtown problems of drug use and vagrancy are brought up. They don't want to improve the situation; just chastise anyone who wants to make it better. It's especially bad on social media. Many of the virtue signalers are on City Council so we see where the problem lies.
The issue has really come to the public's attention with the activist's misguided formation of the Diamond Village encampment (aka Camp Crystal Meth) right beside a residential neighborhood. It's been on the front page of the DP every time it comes up.
Hours and hours of discussion by council and creation of I don't know how many committees and they only recently decided to close it after visits and many citations from the Health Department. That, and the sobering reality that 44 OD's occurred there in a matter of about 3 months. Any one of us could have seen that unsafe situation coming. At least our interim city manager finally took a stand against the activist's and their obvious political motivations to keep this camp going. Even though it's still bad, I feel somewhat vindicated that it has all finally came to a head after witnessing this issue grow for years downtown.
It's obvious to most now that we need to fix our leadership on council before we can ever fix our downtown. They clearly allow all of these issues to get out of hand.
I really wish they would take money and completely renovate downtown. It might cost 100 Million but bury the power lines, Paint, pave roads, plant flowers, demolish buildings (buy them and bulldoze them). What could be will never be.
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