This an email sent to FROC and Dayton City Commissioners and the Mayor
While I am in favor of all the efforts to clean up Main street, I believe a much more critical & urgent need is in Five Oaks itself. Take a drive down the alley between Fountain and Santa Clara…it looks like a garbage dump in some third world country. Also, I walked from my house on Manhattan down Richmond to the Post office and was completely disgusted by what I saw, trash everywhere. The brick house on the corner of Manhattan and Richmond has a parking pad full of trash. Drive from Richmond unto Delaware toward Main Stand the scene is the same.
My neighborhood is in the worst shape I’ve ever seen as far as trash is concerned.
Two things are very evident. 1/Many of my neighbors are absolute slobs.
And, 2/the city is falling flat on its face insofar as code enforcement is concerned.
Cleaning Main street may be important, but the truth is the neighborhood is what needs a focus far more than Main st.
Gary Staiger
