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Broadmoor residents urge city action on parking-lot loitering, lighting and cleanup
Summary
Representatives from the Broadmoor Apartments and a nearby business told the council the parking lot near a historic bus shelter has become a gathering place for drug use, vandalism and human waste; they asked for better lighting, more frequent public-works cleanup and resurfacing (estimated at $30,000).
Maplewood, Mo. — Residents and property representatives from the Broadmoor apartments told the City Council on Aug. 12 that a public parking lot and historic bus shelter adjacent to their building has become a persistent site of loitering, drug use, vandalism and human waste, and asked the city for immediate deterrents including more lighting and more frequent trash pickup.
Joe Morrissey of the Broadmoor Group said the parking lot “doesn’t really feel like it’s for intended purpose of, like, a parking lot.…
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