Resident urges ordinance requiring locked dumpsters for businesses after repeated alley trash

Molly Gray Moore, a resident who said she lives in Uptown Community Square, told the Kenosha Licensing & Permits Committee on Feb. 10 that a commercial dumpster at a nearby business has repeatedly overflowed and scattered trash into her neighborhood alley.

Moore asked the city to require businesses that apply for licenses — including business and liquor licenses — to provide lockable dumpsters and lockable recycling bins and to maintain weekly service. She said she had cleaned up garbage herself last week and that the problem has been occurring since December. "I feel like we as residents should not have to deal with business that are moving into our community," Moore said.

Moore said she called the city health inspector and the city inspector's office; she said the city placed a notice for the problem to be remedied but that the issue continued. The committee acknowledged the complaint at the start of the meeting and then proceeded with the scheduled licensing items. No formal motion or ordinance was proposed during the meeting to change licensing requirements; the committee closed citizen comments and moved on to agenda items.

Ending: The complaint was recorded in public comment; residents and committee members discussed enforcement channels during the meeting, but no ordinance or policy change was proposed at that session.