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Public comments highlight plastic pollution, neighborhood safety, sidewalks and homelessness study
Summary
During citizen-comments at the April 22 council meeting, residents and community organizers urged action on plastic pollution and regular cleanups, raised safety and drainage concerns in the Denby area and other neighborhoods, pressed for faster delivery of speed humps and sidewalks, and requested release of a homelessness feasibility study.
Several members of the public used the April 22 city-council citizen-comments period to press the council on environmental cleanup, plastic pollution, neighborhood safety and homelessness.
On plastic pollution and cleanup, speakers urged city-led and community actions. A speaker marking Earth Day called for signatures on an appeal for the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and described frequent plastic litter on waterways, asserting public-health risks from microplastics. Another speaker who said a survey had been emailed to council suggested options including a city campaign, more trash receptacles, hiring staff for cleanup, a micro-tax on single-use plastics or a ban, and pointed to a microplastics-filtering pilot reported in Atlantic City, New Jersey.…
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