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Detroit to end citywide alleys cleanup program; staff to migrate team and keep emergency response

2823108 · March 26, 2025
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GSD said the alleys cleanup program — initially funded as a three-year effort — will end this fiscal year. Staff will move employees to other blight-remediation duties, continue to respond to emergencies and return data on remaining requests and historic funding.

The General Services Department told councilmembers that a city-funded alleys cleanup program will sunset at the end of the current fiscal year and that the team assigned to the program will be redeployed to other blight-remediation work.

Director Crystal Perkins said the alley-cleaning effort was designed as a three-year program but that the city is…

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