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Resident urges city to trim landscaping and address recycling thefts after rat infestations
Summary
A long-time Loma Linda resident told the council overgrown shrubbery along Bryn Mawr is pushing rats into backyards and urged the city and contracted landscapers to trim shrubs; she also said an elderly woman repeatedly takes items from blue recycling cans and asked the city and sheriff to investigate or provide social services.
Marjorie Barakian, a District 1 resident and one of the original property owners in the Montrose tract, told the council she and neighbors have seen rat activity increase where landscaping shrubs on the West Side of Bryn Mawr grow over block walls and into backyards. "All we're asking is that on the West Side of Bryn Mawr that they not have the shrubs... grow over the top of the walls down into people's backyards,"…
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