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Inquiry about contacting elected officials for site maintenance assistance
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Council Member Julie Won asks the applicant if they have reached out to other elected officials for help with site maintenance. The applicant, Steven Bari, responds by explaining their perspective on the responsibility for maintenance.
- Bari states it's not their business to maintain a site they don't own
- He mentions flooding issues due to the site's impermeability
- Bari describes the area as potentially hazardous, with drug paraphernalia and syringes present
- The applicant emphasizes their position as an adjacent property owner, not responsible for the site's maintenance
Julie Won
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Have you contacted elected officials that overlap with that site, like the state senator, state elect state assembly member, the congress member, or the city council member for that site to help you with the maintenance of the site?
Steven Bari
0:25:14
It's not our business to maintain a site that's not ours to maintain.
0:25:20
And more importantly, in in regards to our, being adjacent to the property, we've been flooded because the area is not permeable.
0:25:29
As grassy as that may look in any of those pictures, the area has decades of garbage layered on top of the soil.
0:25:37
And if you ask any, officer that's had to go back there, the number 1 thing they tell us is be careful.
0:25:43
There's a lot of drug paraphernalia and syringes there.
0:25:47
So with that being said, I can't, attest to its maintenance because it's not we're the adjacent property owner.
0:25:56
If we're saying this as a neighbor to neighbor, it's not been maintained.