Feces on the sidewalks and not a single medicine bin
Residents of the Carmel French neighborhood in Haifa have been complaining to the municipality for some time now, due to the fact that the streets are regularly strewn with dirt and garbage, to the point that it is not pleasant to walk on the streets.
Bags of feces in the bushes
It should be noted that along the hundreds of meters of walking in the streets of the French Carmel, there is not a single garbage can, in case the dog owners decide, nevertheless, to collect the excrement and throw it in the garbage. Some dog owners have found a "creative" solution: they collect the feces in bags and if there is no trash can nearby, they push the bag into the bushes. This custom of the dog owners has already become a real nuisance, when for many meters it is impossible to ignore the quantities of these bags that have accumulated in the bushes.
The residents of the area contacted the municipality several times, the response of the municipality that repeated itself over and over again was that the complaint was received and that they would take care of the issue and carry out a thorough cleaning.
This week, after almost two weeks, on 08/02/21, the municipality cleaned the area in question, the excrement bags were removed, the garbage was thrown away and the bushes were trimmed.
But did the spot cleaning really solve the problem? Or will the residents find themselves required to complain again and again when the problem repeats itself in a few weeks? Where is the supervision of the municipality when it comes to dog excrement, and why is there no garbage can for hundreds of meters along the streets of the neighborhood?
Does the municipality plan long-term solutions, and deal with the problem once and for all?
The residents of Haifa want to walk in clean and pleasant streets. They pay one of the highest property taxes in Israel, but it is difficult to say that they receive the return. Fines for parking are given in large quantities in the city, why is there insufficient enforcement regarding the removal of feces and garbage?
We note that the Haifa municipality decided to disband the municipal police patrol and combine it with the inspection department, according to them, in order to improve the service to the resident, did that really happen?
Haifa Municipality's response:
The Municipal Enforcement Division of the Municipality of Haifa carries out proactive and random enforcement regarding dog excrement. Enforcement is carried out by municipal inspectors at all hours of the day as part of routine enforcement activities or according to areas mapped based on residents' complaints and daily patrols.
Over the past two years, hundreds of reports totaling NIS 730 have been registered for not cleaning dog excrement, in addition to hundreds of dogs that are brought to the municipal kennel. The dogs are caught in all the neighborhoods of the city as part of routine enforcement which contributes to reducing the nuisance caused by the dogs' feces.
The municipal enforcement activity resulted in a significant decrease in the number of complaints addressed to the municipality, however, it is not possible to place an inspector in every corner of the city and eradicating the phenomenon also depends on the cooperation of the public.
The municipality also transferred the security patrol to the enforcement department. There is no return. Property taxes are super expensive.
Haifa Even the damage of nostalgia for the past has a limit... During the Yahav period, a great neglect of everything began. The few they did do - they did it in a failed way, with unsuitable paving, crooked sidewalks, poorly graded roads that after two years were full of potholes. Yaffe Nof is a bad company with bad execution that does not meet any standards of quality and finish.
So great was the failure during Yahav's term that three public buildings Shipa Nof constructed during the previous term did not receive Form 4 (Occupancy Permit) due to many difficult construction defects, which cost hundreds of thousands of shekels to repair later. The public doesn't know that. Including the social services building in Neve Shanan that was empty for months because it was dangerous to the public after a failed performance by the contractor Shipa Nof who simply did not supervise it.
I'd better not go into full stories with you about the list of omissions and hazards at Yahav. But it's enough if I tell you that tens of millions of shekels a year would be constantly wasted on correcting the implementation failures, and the lack of oversight by the municipality.
During Yahav's time there were street cleaners on almost every street once or twice every day. Today you hardly see them. Cliché eliminated them - poor, starving salary, guardians of a clean city!
Beit El Hatshebi Street is also dirty with dog excrement
Hadar streets became a bazaar and dirt
The Prophets bathed and made new sidewalks.
Their cleanliness does not exist, you see a layer of soot and dirt.
On this the businesses refer to the street as bazaars and bazaars
Merchandise is placed all over the sidewalk and obstructs walking.
Really, where is the supervision and why is it impressive?
It's better not to talk about the surroundings of Kibbutz Galvoit street, complete neglect. Feels like we left Haifa for the Borderlands game
right. I asked the mayor, Dr. Einat Kalish-Rotem, to devote a lot of time to take care of this matter. Einat assured me that indeed this issue is on her priority list.
French Carmel? Come on, you can't walk two meters without stepping on a mine... and the smell...
All of Haifa looks like one big garbage can!!! And there's no one to turn to cliché, I think I live on another planet, the roads are terrible, the filth is celebrated, the sidewalks are full of garbage and it's not from the pigs on 4 it's from the pigs on 2!!!!!
It's a shame that they disbanded the municipal policing that did and worked a lot for the residents
From my experience it's a shame every time I needed help they were there
It is very unfortunate that in Haifa everything good is gone?