and less trash also makes a giant difference. face it, there's not enough bins, alley or front sidewalk space to hide our trash that makes its removal economical & practical. Only way we can start talking about sensible trash storage is to store less of it. Start drastically reducing amount of trash...when our reduced trash output can fit in whatever bin design and haul away for cheap then we can talk about it

If you produce a lot trash, only fair you pay for larger share. Again, pay as your throw/trash metering is in place even in high cost of living locals already

That's where you have heavy enforcement and drill it in. Its been successfully implemented in a lot municipalities and reduced trash tremendously

not a dem idea considering its practice all over the world and plenty of municipalities in north america

Well he open one bin and looks like 1/3 -1/2 already taken by 1 trash bag. Judging from height, its prob no more than 3 x 3 ft

Doesn't matter if you put the trash in alley or bin, still a mountain of it. Yes we do generate a lot of trash. Take a look at amount of trash generated in Japan on trash day per household. They charge the folks money per pound in some areas and naturally they have nil trash. Ours are practically free to toss as much trash we want. It's a bargain here.

Do what other cities already do here in USA and elsewhere, make residents use official sanction trash bags. First x free, anything else have to buy. Heavy enforcement and fines

Not big enough. there's a reason why we see mountains of trash on sidewalks. We produce too much trash...till we actually charge folks money to reduce their trash habits, we will always have mountains of trash on the street

don't need permit to pave over yards

1907 legal decision that does not hold municipal governments responsible for damage due to “extraordinary or excessive” rainfall, according to the letter from Lander.

Basically saying they not responsible for acts of god and in event of a working sewer that overflow beyond the amount of flow it was spec for.

if the sewer was broken and fail to do job you have a case. if sewer was overwhelm but fully function as design, no case

Generally the property is responsible for all the pipes that connect to city sewers and cleaning 18inches from curb

sounds like that house with the busted pipe is responsible

Is the storm drains clear at end of blocks? bc clearing that is also the responsibility of whomever owns the property adjacent to it.

Home insurance typically don't cover much for sewerage backup or not even cover at all. Need separate policy. Also even if they do cover most insurance plans even flood don't cover lost belongings in basements. They will cover some equipment to a certain amount

Not going to work. Last time this was successful, they dug up the pipe to show it was damaged/crushed hence failure of city and them liable for damage. Doubtful this the same for this case.